an early victorian mahogany striking four-glass clock

J.W. BENSON, 33 LUDGATE HILL. CIRCA 1840

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an early victorian mahogany striking four-glass clock
j.w. benson, 33 ludgate hill. circa 1840
The case with bevelled glass panel to the stepped top and conforming side panels, with bombé base above rectangular plinth, on block feet, the square silvered one-piece Roman dial with engraved foliate scroll spandrels, steel trefoil hands, signed in the centre J.W. BENSON, 33. Ludgate Hill, with inscription below within laurel wreath S.M. XXXI, the twin wire fusee movement with anchor escapement and strike on bell (lacking), pendulum holdfast to the backplate
12½in. (32cm.) high