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A good late 18th century mahogany table clock of excellent colour, with moonphase and alarm. Together with a matching wall bracket.Signed Yeldrae Notron, for Eardley Norton, London, number 2400 The bell topped case surmounted by a handle and four berried finials over a moulded cornice, fish scale side frets (backed with red velvet), and canted corners to a moulded base on brass ogee bracket feet. The 6.75 inch brass dial with painted rolling moonphase in the arch waxing and waning over a pair of brass hemispheres engraved with signs of the Zodiac, the moon's age engraved to the outer edge of the silvered arc, over a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring framed by floral and C-scroll spandrels, with Strike/Not strike lever at III, the matted centre with recessed shaped signature plaque, blued steel hands and an Arabic alarm-setting disc. The twin gut (now wire) fusee movement with five knopped pillars, the going train terminating in a knife-edge verge escapement, the rack striking system sounding the hours and with trip repeat on the bell, the alarm train independently wound via a cord to the rear and acting on the same bell with a double ended hammer, the backplate depicting a basket of fruit within symmetrical foliate scrolls. Numbered 2400 to the top right hand corner and along the rear edge. With a case key and associated winding key. Running, striking and repeating, alarm functioning. The clock 48cms (19ins) high. Full height including bracket 63cms (24.75ins). (2)FootnotesEardley Norton was working from 49 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, London from the mid 18th Century and was free of the Clockmakers Company from 1770-1794. He was a maker of great repute for watches and complex clocks and in 1771 he patented a striking mechanism.