A GEORGE II EBONY STRIKING AND QUARTER REPEATING BRACKET CLOCK Circa 1740, by George Graham London, numbered 630 The case with foliate-tied handle to the inverted bell top, pierced wood sound fret to the front door with gilt-metal escutcheon, the 5 x 6 inch dial signed GEO GRAHAM LONDON in the top flanked by silvered subsidiary dials for regulation and strike/silent, the silvered chapter ring with lozenge half hour markers and typical blued steel hands, the matted center with mock pendulum and calendar apertures with pin-hole adjustment, double-screened silver spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the seven ringed pillars, verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on two bells on Tompion's system via blued steel interlocking levers, twin gut fusees, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage and with birds and a basket of fruit, the repeat signature GEO. GRAHAM LONDON beneath an engraved Indian mask, the base of the backplate punch-numbered 630, similarly engraved backplate securing brackets to the case 13in. (34cm.) high, 8in. (22cm.) wide, 6in. (15cm.) deep
A GEORGE II EBONY STRIKING AND QUARTER REPEATING BRACKET CLOCK Circa 1740, by George Graham London, numbered 630 The case with foliate-tied handle to the inverted bell top, pierced wood sound fret to the front door with gilt-metal escutcheon, the 5 x 6 inch dial signed GEO GRAHAM LONDON in the top flanked by silvered subsidiary dials for regulation and strike/silent, the silvered chapter ring with lozenge half hour markers and typical blued steel hands, the matted center with mock pendulum and calendar apertures with pin-hole adjustment, double-screened silver spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the seven ringed pillars, verge escapement, pull quarter repeat on two bells on Tompion's system via blued steel interlocking levers, twin gut fusees, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage and with birds and a basket of fruit, the repeat signature GEO. GRAHAM LONDON beneath an engraved Indian mask, the base of the backplate punch-numbered 630, similarly engraved backplate securing brackets to the case 13in. (34cm.) high, 8in. (22cm.) wide, 6in. (15cm.) deep
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