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

THOMAS COX SAVORY, LONDON, NO. 810. MID-19TH CENTURY

已結束2011年9月22日

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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY SKELETON CLOCK
THOMAS COX SAVORY, LONDON, NO. 810. MID-19TH CENTURY
DIAL: silvered and engraved, signed 'T Cox Savory 47 Cornhill/London No. 810', blued steel moon hands MOVEMENT: with lyre-form scroll plates joined by six baluster pillars and raised on rectangular blocks, triple chain fusees with anchor escapement, train wheels with five crossings, quarter chiming on a nest of eight bells and with hour strike on a further bell; on replaced mahogany plinth and under glass dome; pendulum, winding key with 'CS' monogram
21 in. (53.5 cm.) high, excluding glass dome; 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) deep

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Primarily a retailer and silversmith, Thomas Cox Savory is recorded at 47 Cornhill, London in 1838 when he exhibited in his front window a mystery clock by Robert-Houdin. Loomes records him there 1851-1857 and also as having premises in Paris from the mid to late 19th Century.