A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, RETAILED BY JAMES NEILL & CO., BELFAST. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: pierced, silvered and engraved chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates joined by six double-screwed pillars, triple chain fusees, train wheels with six crossings, dead beat anchor escapement, striking the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on gong, the front plate with applied cartouche signed 'Jas. Neill & Co.BELFAST'; ebony rod pendulum with zinc bob, winding key, replaced marble plinth and glass dome
23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep
A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, RETAILED BY JAMES NEILL & CO., BELFAST. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: pierced, silvered and engraved chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates joined by six double-screwed pillars, triple chain fusees, train wheels with six crossings, dead beat anchor escapement, striking the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on gong, the front plate with applied cartouche signed 'Jas. Neill & Co.BELFAST'; ebony rod pendulum with zinc bob, winding key, replaced marble plinth and glass dome
23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep