A VICTORIAN BRASS STRIKING EIGHT DAY SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. RETAILED BY LYON, LONDON. CIRCA 1872
DIAL: pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates with four double-screwed pillars, twin chain fusees, train wheels with five crossings, anchor escapement, rack strike on gong, passing half hour strike on bell; pendulum, winding key, later velvet and ebonised plinth, original plaque inscribed 'PRESENTED/By the INHABITANTS of/CURY AND GUNWALLOE/TO THE/REVD. MATHEW NIXON BROUGHAM M. A./INCUMBENT OF THE UNITED PARISHES/FROM OCTOBER 1864 TO APRIL 1872/IN TOKEN OF THEIR GRATEFUL & AFFECTIONATE ESTEEM/APRIL 1872', glass dome
21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 14¾ in. (35 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep
A VICTORIAN BRASS STRIKING EIGHT DAY SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. RETAILED BY LYON, LONDON. CIRCA 1872
DIAL: pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates with four double-screwed pillars, twin chain fusees, train wheels with five crossings, anchor escapement, rack strike on gong, passing half hour strike on bell; pendulum, winding key, later velvet and ebonised plinth, original plaque inscribed 'PRESENTED/By the INHABITANTS of/CURY AND GUNWALLOE/TO THE/REVD. MATHEW NIXON BROUGHAM M. A./INCUMBENT OF THE UNITED PARISHES/FROM OCTOBER 1864 TO APRIL 1872/IN TOKEN OF THEIR GRATEFUL & AFFECTIONATE ESTEEM/APRIL 1872', glass dome
21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 14¾ in. (35 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep
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