AN EDWARDIAN GILT BRASS MOUNTED OAK QUARTER-CHIMING BRACKET CLOCK The movement by Winterhalder and Hoffmeier, Schwaerzenbach, early 20th century The four pillar triple train movement with anchor escapement, chiming a choice of two melodies on eight coiled gongs and sounding the hour on a further larger gong, the backplate stamped W & H, Sch to lower margin, the 7.5 inch arched brass dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minute to outer track, with decorative steel hands and scroll cast brass lower spandrels beneath arch incorporating subsidiary regulation flanked by CHIME/SILENT and CHIME on eight Gongs/Chime on four Gongs selection dials set within conforming scroll cast infill centred with a winged cherub mask, the English case with two tiers of pineapple finials to the superstructure incorporating baluster gallery and brass figural frieze to front over complex top mouldings and break-arch glazed hinged dial aperture fitted with silvered brass canted insert to interior and twin cherub mounts to upper quadrants flanked by grotesque terms to front angles, the sides with arched cast cherub mask centred sunburst frets and the rear with rectangular door inset with brass grille sound fret, the cavetto moulded skirt base applied with brass presentation plaque engraved PRESENTED TO. Captain J. Johnson BY A FEW OLD ASSOCIATES OF, THE OFFICE STAFF OF MESS'RS THO'S WILSON, SONS & Co LTD, AS A MARK OF THEIR RESPECT AND ESTEEM. APRIL 1906, on cast brass lions paw feet. 66cm (26ins) high, 42cm (16.5ins), 29cm (11.5ins) wide.
AN EDWARDIAN GILT BRASS MOUNTED OAK QUARTER-CHIMING BRACKET CLOCK The movement by Winterhalder and Hoffmeier, Schwaerzenbach, early 20th century The four pillar triple train movement with anchor escapement, chiming a choice of two melodies on eight coiled gongs and sounding the hour on a further larger gong, the backplate stamped W & H, Sch to lower margin, the 7.5 inch arched brass dial with matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minute to outer track, with decorative steel hands and scroll cast brass lower spandrels beneath arch incorporating subsidiary regulation flanked by CHIME/SILENT and CHIME on eight Gongs/Chime on four Gongs selection dials set within conforming scroll cast infill centred with a winged cherub mask, the English case with two tiers of pineapple finials to the superstructure incorporating baluster gallery and brass figural frieze to front over complex top mouldings and break-arch glazed hinged dial aperture fitted with silvered brass canted insert to interior and twin cherub mounts to upper quadrants flanked by grotesque terms to front angles, the sides with arched cast cherub mask centred sunburst frets and the rear with rectangular door inset with brass grille sound fret, the cavetto moulded skirt base applied with brass presentation plaque engraved PRESENTED TO. Captain J. Johnson BY A FEW OLD ASSOCIATES OF, THE OFFICE STAFF OF MESS'RS THO'S WILSON, SONS & Co LTD, AS A MARK OF THEIR RESPECT AND ESTEEM. APRIL 1906, on cast brass lions paw feet. 66cm (26ins) high, 42cm (16.5ins), 29cm (11.5ins) wide.
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