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    Important Clocks, Barometers and Marine Chronometers

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    2 July 2004

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    • A George III mahogany quarter-
    Lot 81

    A George III mahogany quarter-striking table clock with alarm and sprung steel pallets

    GEORGE GRAHAM, LONDON. CIRCA 1770

    Price realised

    GBP 12,548

    Estimate

    GBP 6,000 - GBP 10,000

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    A George III mahogany quarter-striking table clock with alarm and sprung steel pallets
    George Graham, London. Circa 1770
    The case with brass pineapple finial to bell top, with brass handles to the sides above delicate foliate pierced mahogany sound frets, with conforming frets to the front and rear doors, on moulded squab feet, the brass dial with foliate spandrels to the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, with finely pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with date aperture and recessed silvered plaque signed Geo. Graham London, central silvered alarm-set disc, subsidiary strike/silent ring to the arch, the six pillar triple wire fusee movement with pivoted verge escapement with sprung steel pallets, quarter-striking on eight bells and with hour strike and pull-wound alarm on further bell, the back plate engraved with leafy scrolls and flowerheads and with pendulum holdfast, similarly engraved movement securing brackets to the case.
    22in. (56cm.) high

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