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A VICTORIAN BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK
Lot 121 A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)

A VICTORIAN BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK

JOHN PACE, BURY ST EDMUNDS. CIRCA 1850

Closed17 March 2011

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A VICTORIAN BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK
JOHN PACE, BURY ST EDMUNDS. CIRCA 1850
DIAL: engraved and silvered skeletonised chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: circular back plate on C-scolls, shield-shaped front plate for the barrel, gut fusee and centre wheel, two cocks for the third wheel, escape wheel and pallets; pendulum, winding key, brass base signed 'John Pace/Bury', replaced ebonised plinth and glass dome
9 in. (23 cm.) high, excluding dome; 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide; 5¾ in. (13 cm.) deep

Specialist note

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 89-91, figs..
John Pace (1783-1867) exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He is particularly renowned for his long duration clocks (see lot 129).