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A Viennese ormolu grande sonnerie striking travelling clock
the milled drum case surmounted by a foliate-cast handle and supported on scrolling foliate cast brackets, on octagonal base with foliate-cast feet, the gilt engine-turned dial with painted Roman chapters, blued steel hour and minute hands, steel alarm hand, the triple barrel movement, with platform cylinder escapement, strike on two gongs, alarm on bell on plain backplate -- 7¾in.(19.5cm.) high; with gilt-tooled red leather carrying case; Austrian, circa 1830
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the milled drum case surmounted by a foliate-cast handle and supported on scrolling foliate cast brackets, on octagonal base with foliate-cast feet, the gilt engine-turned dial with painted Roman chapters, blued steel hour and minute hands, steel alarm hand, the triple barrel movement, with platform cylinder escapement, strike on two gongs, alarm on bell on plain backplate -- 7¾in.(19.5cm.) high; with gilt-tooled red leather carrying case; Austrian, circa 1830
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