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19th Century English Brass Skeleton Clock
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19th Century English Brass Skeleton Clock. Porcelain dial. Fusee time and passing strike movement. With dome. Ht. 14″. The Ferd Kirshberger Collection, VA.
English Brass Fusee Skeleton Clock
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English Brass Fusee Skeleton Clock: with fusee movement. All brass with painted dial. Not marked.
Glass dome is missing.)
13 1/2″ T
Clock is running at time of listing, but not guaranteed to continue
AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCK
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Openwork brass gothic motif plates, pierced silvered chapter ring dial with hand painted Roman numerals, fusee drive chain replaced with stranded wire, white marble base and flat oval glass dome. Passing strike only. Measures 17.75 x 11 x 7 inches.
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A mid 19th century brass-framed skeleton clock by
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A mid 19th century brass-framed skeleton clock by Webster of London. Having a 5″ silvered Roman chapter ring framing a wire-driven single-fusee timepiece movement with passing-strike, wheels of four crossings, the four-pillar A-frame surmounted by a bell with pikestaff hammer, on a fruitwood base with brass plaque engraved “Webster 8 days LONDON WARRANTED”, raised on three bun feet, 15″, (38cm) high.
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A good mid 19th century brass skeleton clock
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A good mid 19th century brass skeleton clock. Attributed to Edwards of Stourbridge, circa 1850, having a 4.75″ silvered twelve-lobed Roman dial with minute dots, framing a six-pillar chain-driven twin-fusee movement with wheels of six crossings, the frame of scrolled ‘Christmas Tree’ design with knopped and ringed pillars, 11″, (28cm) high, on a stepped white marble base beneath glass dome, 15.5″, (39.5cm) high overall. For a similar example by this firm, see F. B Royer-Collard, ‘Skeleton Clocks’ (NAG 1969), p.16.
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FANCY 19TH.C ENGLISH SKELETON MANTEL CLOCK
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Fancy 19th.C English skeleton mantel clock on a beautiful burlwood base with an inlaid design throughout. Measures 18″ tall by 13″ wide (45.72cm tall by 33.02cm wide)
A rare mid 19th century skeleton clock by John Pac
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A rare mid 19th century skeleton clock by John Pace, Bury St. Edmunds, with musical movement. Having a fine gilt Arabic chapter ring framing blued steel spade hands and an exposed gut-driven movement with wheels of five crossings, raised on twin c-scroll supports to a brass oval base engraved “JOHN PACE Bury St Edmunds”, the brass base plate stamped several times beneath “PACE BURY ST EDMUNDS”, with cut-out and blued steel wavy connecting rod to a later gut-driven fusee musical movement by Reuge, St. Croix, with 2″ barrel and complete comb, playing a Brahms waltz and a Mozart serenade, Reuge label beneath, original red octagonal paper label within of John Pace, on ebonised base and brass ball feet, 13.75″, (35cm) high overall. Similar examples without musical movement were sold last year by Christie’s King Street, 17th March lot 121 and Bonhams New Bond Street, 13th December lot 64. Literature: see Derek Roberts, ‘British Skeleton Clocks’ (ACC, 1987), p.89 and F. B. Royer-Colllard, ‘Skeleton Clocks’ (NAG 1969), p.14.
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