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Fine Victorian brass skeleton clock timepiece by Smiths of C...

by Gardiner Houlgate
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£1,000 - £1,500

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Fine Victorian brass skeleton clock timepiece by Smiths of Clerkenwell, retailed by Harbinson & Co., Belfast, the brass frame with a silvered and engraved Roman numeral chapter ring and pierced circlets to the centre, blued steel hands, over a pair of flanked gilt-metal recumbent lions and with a central compass, bearing the inscribed silvered retailer plaque and upon an oval ebonised steeped base, single chain fusee eight-day movement, beneath a glass dome, 14 7/8" high excluding the dome (with a triple rod pendulum)

** For similar reference see - Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1987, P.129, figs a,b,c

** Christies ex lot 26, 06 December 2006 

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Private Provenance purchased from Christies in December 2006. Regularly serviced and maintained, last fully overhaul serviced was undertaken in March 2021

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