An unusual Victorian brass striking skeleton clock with gravity escapement Attributed to Evans of Handsworth. Circa 1860 The tracery-pierced brass frame secured by six brass pillars with blued steel screws, the going train with spring barrel and chain fusee, maintaining power, wheel train with six crossings, five-leg gravity escapement planted on the backplate with adjustable weights at the top of the gravity arms, original wood-rod pendulum with heavy brass-cased navette-shaped bob, the strike train with hour rack strike on a steel gong of circular section to the rear and passing the half-hour strike on a bell above the plates, the Gothic-pierced silvered dial with blued steel fleur-de-lys hands and wide diameter narrow silvered seconds ring at VI, the movement resting on an oval marble base; with associated glass dome 22½ in. (57 cm.) high
An unusual Victorian brass striking skeleton clock with gravity escapement Attributed to Evans of Handsworth. Circa 1860 The tracery-pierced brass frame secured by six brass pillars with blued steel screws, the going train with spring barrel and chain fusee, maintaining power, wheel train with six crossings, five-leg gravity escapement planted on the backplate with adjustable weights at the top of the gravity arms, original wood-rod pendulum with heavy brass-cased navette-shaped bob, the strike train with hour rack strike on a steel gong of circular section to the rear and passing the half-hour strike on a bell above the plates, the Gothic-pierced silvered dial with blued steel fleur-de-lys hands and wide diameter narrow silvered seconds ring at VI, the movement resting on an oval marble base; with associated glass dome 22½ in. (57 cm.) high
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