A VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED STRIKING EIGHT DAY BRIGHTON PAVILION SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON, RETAILED BY SHEPHERDSON, DONCASTER. CIRCA 1864
DIAL: finely foliate pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: with ormolu eagle finial and flanked by ormolu lions, the pierced plates joined by eight double-screwed pillars, twin chain fusees, dead beat anchor escapement, five crossings to all train wheels, rack strike on gong, silvered cartouche signed 'SHEPHERDSON/DONCASTER'; gridiron pendulum, winding key, replaced velvet-covered and marble plinth with original silvered scroll-pierced cartouche inscribed 'Presented by the/CHURCH & CONGREGATION/INDEPENDENT CHAPEL EASTGATE DONCASTER/to the Rev. C. C. Tyle on his/resigning in the office after Eighty nine years/faithful loyalty February 29th 1864', replaced glass dome
24½ in. (62 cm.) high, excluding dome; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) deep
A VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED STRIKING EIGHT DAY BRIGHTON PAVILION SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON, RETAILED BY SHEPHERDSON, DONCASTER. CIRCA 1864
DIAL: finely foliate pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: with ormolu eagle finial and flanked by ormolu lions, the pierced plates joined by eight double-screwed pillars, twin chain fusees, dead beat anchor escapement, five crossings to all train wheels, rack strike on gong, silvered cartouche signed 'SHEPHERDSON/DONCASTER'; gridiron pendulum, winding key, replaced velvet-covered and marble plinth with original silvered scroll-pierced cartouche inscribed 'Presented by the/CHURCH & CONGREGATION/INDEPENDENT CHAPEL EASTGATE DONCASTER/to the Rev. C. C. Tyle on his/resigning in the office after Eighty nine years/faithful loyalty February 29th 1864', replaced glass dome
24½ in. (62 cm.) high, excluding dome; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) deep
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