SAMUEL SMITH, COVENTRY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK WITH MUSICAL MOVEMENT AND AUTOMATON
SAMUEL SMITH, COVENTRY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The hood with swan-neck pediment and sphere finials, the trunk with shaped door flanked by outset cluster columns, the plinth raised on bracket feet, the arched dial painted with Roman hours and quarter hours, pastoral scenes to the spandrels, signed 'Samuel Smith / Coventry', date ring to centre, the arch with Britannia and lion with automaton eyes, tune selection 'See The Conquering Hero Comes', 'Glorius (sic) Apollo', and 'Tom Bowling', dummy winding hole at '9', the twin train movement with strike to bell, with linkage to single train musical movement with pin barrel activating eight hammers on eight bells
96 in. (244 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) deep

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