Lot Essay
Handley and Moore (both apprentices of John Thwaites) were clockmakers, supplying movements (sometimes musical) to the trade. The present organ is clearly the work of a maker familiar with clockmaking.
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A barrel organ clock base
by John Moore late Handley & Moore, Clerkenwell, London, with single spring fusee motor, twelve-air barrel with tune indicator, sixteen-key action, two ranks of metal pipes and mahogany case with reeded bun feet, hinged open front and side panels and removable rear panel with gothic astragal mouldings -- 34 in. (86 cm.) high, the barrel 13 in. (33 cm.) (pipes defective)
by John Moore late Handley & Moore, Clerkenwell, London, with single spring fusee motor, twelve-air barrel with tune indicator, sixteen-key action, two ranks of metal pipes and mahogany case with reeded bun feet, hinged open front and side panels and removable rear panel with gothic astragal mouldings -- 34 in. (86 cm.) high, the barrel 13 in. (33 cm.) (pipes defective)