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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
Lot 132 A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)

A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865

Closed17 March 2011

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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865
CASE: later purpose-made walnut case with fully glazed shade and wall bracket (not illustrated) DIAL: engraved and silvered dial with unusual engine-turned, pierced and interlaced centre design, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates joined by six double-screwed pillars, triple chain fusees, train wheels with five crossings, dead beat anchor escapement, striking the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on gong; pendulum, winding key
22½ in. (57 cm.) high, excluding bracket and shade; 16 in. (41 cm.) wide; 9½ in. (24 cm.) deep

Specialist note

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 68-69, figs.-26c; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, pp. 11-12, fig. 1-13.
The highly distinctive interlaced dial design of this clock does not appear to be recorded elsewhere.