AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN BRASS AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING EIGHT-DAY SKELETON CLOCK WITH GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS OF HANDSWORTH, CIRCA 1860
DIAL: the silvered dial with shield chapters and blued steel fleur-de-lys hands, seconds ring at VI MOVEMENT: tracery frame plates with seven pillars with blued steel screws, twin chain fusees, wheels with six crossings, maintaining power, five-leg gravity escapement to back plate, adjustable weights to top of gravity arms, hour rack strike and trip repeat on steel gong to rear and passing half hour strike on bell above; on white marble plinth; no pendulum
21 in. (54 cm.) high; 12in. (31 cm.) wide; 9 in. (13.5 cm.) deep
AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN BRASS AND WHITE MARBLE STRIKING EIGHT-DAY SKELETON CLOCK WITH GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS OF HANDSWORTH, CIRCA 1860
DIAL: the silvered dial with shield chapters and blued steel fleur-de-lys hands, seconds ring at VI MOVEMENT: tracery frame plates with seven pillars with blued steel screws, twin chain fusees, wheels with six crossings, maintaining power, five-leg gravity escapement to back plate, adjustable weights to top of gravity arms, hour rack strike and trip repeat on steel gong to rear and passing half hour strike on bell above; on white marble plinth; no pendulum
21 in. (54 cm.) high; 12in. (31 cm.) wide; 9 in. (13.5 cm.) deep
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