Sale 5156
London, South Kensington
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11 July 2007
Price realised
GBP 600
Estimate
A Victorian mahogany striking eight day table clock Bancroft, Derby. Circa 1840 With brass tracery sound frets, the silvered dial signed BANCROFT./DERBY/TEMPUS FUGIT, steel hands, the movement with shouldered plates joined by five pillars, twin wire fusees with anchor escapement and strike/trip repeat on bell, holdfast to back plate; pendulum 17¼ in. (44 cm.) high
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