Sale 2796
Amsterdam
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19 December 2007
Price realised
EUR 3,840
Estimate
An Austro-Hungarian silver striking table clock Probably 19th Century, the associated movement by A. Banck, Jaroslan The repoussé case decorated with fruit designs and applied with leaf mounts, with glazed side panels and on bun feet, the dial with engraved Roman chapter ring and raised centre, blued steel Breguet hands, the associated movement with square plates joined by four pillars, twin barrels with platform lever escapement with bimetallic balance and strike on gong, signed A. Banck à Jaroslan, also applied with a plaque inscribed Repassirt/J Becker/St Petersburg, the hinged base with bell apertures 32 cm. wide
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Ernst Von Bassermann-Jordan & Hans von Bertele, Oude Klokken, Haarlem, 1974, p.133, fig.106 Klaus Maurice, Die deutsche Räderuhr, Munich, 1976, figs.605-608
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