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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING PRESENTATION SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITH'S OF CLERKENWELL. RETAILED BY COOPER, HUDDERSFIELD. PRESENTED 1864
A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING PRESENTATION SKELETON CLOCK ATTRIBUTED TO SMITH'S OF CLERKENWELL. RETAILED BY COOPER, HUDDERSFIELD. PRESENTED 1864 The thick pierced brass tracery frame joined by seven substantial double-screwed pillars, secured to green velvet-covered tapering oval plinth, applied to the front with a pierced, silvered and engraved presentation plaque 'PRESENTED TO/Joseph Norton Esquire,/on retiring from business,/BY HIS NUMEROUS WORK PEOPLE/AS A TESTIMONIAL OF THEIR REGARD AND ESTEEM/MAY 1864', with retail signature on a banner above 'COOPER NEW STREET HUDDERSFIELD', the pierced, silvered and engraved chapter ring with 'Gothic' Roman chapters and coronet tips, blued steel pierced heart-shaped hands, the movement with triple chain fusees, Vulliamy-type dead beat escapement, wheels with six crossings, skeletonised under-dial work, hour strike on gong and quarter chimes on a nest of eight bells via 6½ in. long pinned barrel; pendulum, winding key; formerly under glass dome, now within ebonised and glazed display case See movement detail page 2 in the printed catalogue The clock -- 24 in. (61 cm.) high; 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide; 7½ in. (19 cm) deep, including plinth The case -- 28¼ in. (71.5 cm.) high; 24 2/3 in. (63 cm.) wide; 11½ in. (29.5 cm.) deep