Sale 8486
London, South Kensington
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22 September 1999
Price realised
GBP 2,185
Estimate
An early Victorian rosewood striking bracket clock The case with sheaf-tied pagoda top, brass tracery sound frets to the sides below ring handles, with brass-lined fielded panel below the dial, brass strips to the chamfered sides (one lacking), on ball feet, the white painted Roman dial with steel hands, the twin wire fusee movement with anchor escapement and strike on gong, signed on the backplate Thwaites & Reed, Clerkenwell LONDON 18in. (48cm.) high with an associated French stand (2)
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