Beschreibung:

A Germanic iron framed weight-driven rack striking chamber clock with trip hour-repeat Unsigned, second half of the 18th century The posted movement with substantial square section uprights and two-tier top plate enclosing verge escapement regulated by front swinging short bob pendulum, the strike train with large diameter snail fitted to the hour pipe and rack placed at the rear gathered by a pawl fitted to the second wheel arbor and sounding on a bell mounted on the top plate, the 7.5 inch square painted iron dial plate with circular cream Roman numeral centre and scroll pierced brass hands within Arabic five minute outer track and plain green painted spandrel areas beneath symmetrical foliate scroll strapwork pierced fret, the sides with iron-red painted doors, the rear with conforming fixed panel fitted with pull-repeat ring, hanging hoop and spurs, on threaded iron feet, 30.5cm (12ins) high. The current lot is reminiscent of an early Dutch 'Twentse Stoelklok' movement and dial (see Edwards, Ernest L. WEIGHT DRIVEN DUTCH CLOCKS & THEIR JAPANESE CONNECTIONS page 89) however its heavy iron frame, front swinging pendulum, pierced iron crest and configuration as a 'hook and spike' wall clock would suggest Germanic origins. The provision of rack striking is a rare feature which is configured in a similar manner as seen on some English thirty hour posted longcase clock movements (see Darken, Jeff and Hooper, John English 30 Hour Clocks pages 150-152 for an example by William Townly of Bourton which uses a similar system) which was clearly intended to allow the clock to repeat the last hour at will - hence the provision of a hoop lever for a pull cord at the rear. Condition report disclaimer