Sale 6928
London
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2 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 2,988
Estimate
A modern English brass and ebonised wood skeleton timepiece with grasshopper escapement Unsigned. 20th Century The movement raised on four turned brass columns resting on an oval ebonised base with blue velvet cover, the pierced brass movement plates designed around the three individual silvered chapter rings for seconds, minutes and hours, fusee with wire lines to the spring barrel with skeletonised caps, the grasshopper escapement with counter-balanced spring pallets; with glass dome 16½ in. (42 cm.) high
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