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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
Lot 134 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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GBP 15,000

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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: pierced, silvered and engraved chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates joined by seven double-screwed pillars, triple chain fusees, train wheels with six crossings, anchor escapement, striking the quarters on a nest of eight forward-facing bells and the hours on gong; ebony rod pendulum with zinc bob, winding key, replaced velvet-covered ebonised plinth and glass dome
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high, excluding glass dome; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) deep

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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, figs. 1-12, 13.
An almost identical York Minster skeleton clock with this unusual arrangement of forward-facing bells is in the Castle Museum of York and illustrated by Roberts, p. 145, figs. a, b.