BRASS SKELETON CLOCK Circa 1850 England
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BRASS SKELETON CLOCK
Circa 1850
England
Movement
The spring-driven brass skeleton movement has an anchor escapement, chain fusee and spring barrel, with a short pendulum. The striking mechanism sounds only once on the hour, a so-called strike in passing on a bell mounted on the movement.
Dial
The skeletonised and engraved silvered brass chapter ring has black Roman hour numerals and a minute markers. The time is indicated by a pair of blued steel hands.
Case
The skeletonised brass plates are constructed as a stylised architectural front of the Houses of Parliament in London, which are connected by beautiful baluster and double-baluster pillars, and rest on a stepped brass base. The whole is placed on an ebonised wooden base with a glass dome.
Duration: 1 week
Height 37 cm.
Width 30 cm.
Depth 18 cm.
Literature
– Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, p. 37.
– F.B. Royer Collard, Skeleton Clocks, p. 128.