An Anglaise French striking carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours on a gong with a push button to allow a repeat of the last hour at will, the movement backplate stamped with the serial number 9439, the brass masked dial having an ivorine chapter ring with stylised black Arabic hour numerals, blued steel spade hands and signed for the retailer Mappin & Webb, Paris, the brass Anglaise case having fluted columns with cast Corinthian capitals and matching handle, with a concave moulded base and top, height 21cm handle up, 16.5cm handle down.*Notes Although unsigned, the hand setting arrow and font for the lettering Hands is near-identical to those used on carriage clocks as signed for the well-known carriage clock maker François-Arsène Margaine of Paris at the beginning of his production.
An Anglaise French striking carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours on a gong with a push button to allow a repeat of the last hour at will, the movement backplate stamped with the serial number 9439, the brass masked dial having an ivorine chapter ring with stylised black Arabic hour numerals, blued steel spade hands and signed for the retailer Mappin & Webb, Paris, the brass Anglaise case having fluted columns with cast Corinthian capitals and matching handle, with a concave moulded base and top, height 21cm handle up, 16.5cm handle down.*Notes Although unsigned, the hand setting arrow and font for the lettering Hands is near-identical to those used on carriage clocks as signed for the well-known carriage clock maker François-Arsène Margaine of Paris at the beginning of his production.
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