Beschreibung:

AN EXCEPTIONAL VICTORIAN BRASS FOUR TRAIN MUSICAL, QUARTER-CHIMING AND STRIKING EIGHT DAY CALENDRICAL 'EXHIBITION' SKELETON CLOCK
CIRCA 1860. IN MODERN PURPOSE-MADE DISPLAY CASE
AN EXCEPTIONAL VICTORIAN BRASS FOUR TRAIN MUSICAL, QUARTER-CHIMING AND STRIKING EIGHT DAY CALENDRICAL 'EXHIBITION' SKELETON CLOCK CIRCA 1860. IN MODERN PURPOSE-MADE DISPLAY CASE CASE: the two-section ebonised and giltwood case with glazed front and side panels to the upper section, fretwork panel to its rear, the glazed front lower section with shelf DIAL: the silvered and chased chapter ring with skeletonised centre, subsidiary rings above for 'MUSIC & CHIMES/SILENT', the day of the month and 'CAMBRIDGE CHIME/OXFORD CHIME', further subsidiary rings below for music indication inscribed 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN/THE BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND/THE MINSTREL BOY/MARCH OF THE MEN OF HARLECH/AULD LANG SYNE/HOME SWEET HOME/GREAT GOD WHAT DO I SEE AND HEAR', also for annual calendar and days of the week, with hour and quarter trip repeat lever to III, music trip lever to IX, automatic or manual music change to VIII, blued steel quatrefoil hands MOVEMENT: the substantial scroll-pierced frames joined by eight double-screwed pillars, quadruple chain fusees, train wheels with six crossings, playing the music with twenty-one hammers on sixteen bells and two gongs via 7 in. wide brass pin barrel, chiming the quarters on a nest of eight bells with eight hammers or four gongs, striking the hours on further gong, with monometallic English lever balance to gilt platform escapement; winding key The clock -- 25½ in. (64.5 cm.) high; 16¼ (41.5 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep, excluding gongs The case -- 68½ in. (174.5 cm.) high; 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (39.5 cm.) deep