John Shelton London The inverted bell top with single handle over shaped side panels with well moulded borders framing the panels of pierced foliate brass with red silk backing, to a plinth base and block feet, the seven inch rectangular brass dial signed between two subsidiary dials for rise-and-fall regulation (marked in 5s) and Strike/Silent, the Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating fleur de lyse half-hour markers within minute and quarter hour tracks, the finely matted cente with curved mock pendulum aperture and chamfered date aperture, with original steel hands, the twin gut fusee movement with thick rectangular plates united by six knopped pillars, with pivotted verge escapement with engraved apron and lenticular bob pendulum secured via a sprung bar mounted on a teardrop shaped and engraved foot, the rack strike acting on a bell, the backplate signed in an oval wheatear cartouche below a female bust and above a pair or eagles heads, all within symmetrical foliate scrolls, secured in the case via two engraved L-shaped side brackets. Together with the original crank winding key. 48cms (19ins) high.
John Shelton London The inverted bell top with single handle over shaped side panels with well moulded borders framing the panels of pierced foliate brass with red silk backing, to a plinth base and block feet, the seven inch rectangular brass dial signed between two subsidiary dials for rise-and-fall regulation (marked in 5s) and Strike/Silent, the Roman and Arabic chapter ring with floating fleur de lyse half-hour markers within minute and quarter hour tracks, the finely matted cente with curved mock pendulum aperture and chamfered date aperture, with original steel hands, the twin gut fusee movement with thick rectangular plates united by six knopped pillars, with pivotted verge escapement with engraved apron and lenticular bob pendulum secured via a sprung bar mounted on a teardrop shaped and engraved foot, the rack strike acting on a bell, the backplate signed in an oval wheatear cartouche below a female bust and above a pair or eagles heads, all within symmetrical foliate scrolls, secured in the case via two engraved L-shaped side brackets. Together with the original crank winding key. 48cms (19ins) high.
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