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A FRENCH GILT-BRASS WEIGHT-DRIVEN TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK
Lot 429

A FRENCH GILT-BRASS WEIGHT-DRIVEN TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK

MOINEAU AND DEGRÉGE, PARIS, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed26 March 2013

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GBP 5,250

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A FRENCH GILT-BRASS WEIGHT-DRIVEN TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK
MOINEAU AND DEGRÉGE, PARIS, MID-19TH CENTURY
The openwork frame on an inlaid rosewood plinth, with recoil anchor escapement, endless chain and pull wind, the backplate stamped 'AUGTE. MOINEAU ET ROLLAND DEGRAEGE', with silvered chapter ring and thermometer scale (mercury tube removed)
22½ in. (57 cm.) high; 15¼ in. (38.7 cm.) wide; 5 in. (12.7 cm.) deep

Specialist note

F.B. Royer-Collard Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 81, plates 5-18/5-20.