
ANTIQUE Longcase Mahogany CLOCK - LCMAH 314 |
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| Title | LCMAH 314 |
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| Case | Typical 'London' high quality, long door, flame mahogany, case with breakarch top, side windows to hood, brass insert fluted hood columns with matching trunk quarter columns, and typical two step base. | |
| Dial | 12" breakarch brass dial with strike/silent subsidiary dial to arch, subsidiary seconds dial, square date box and cast brass spandrels.The engraved and silvered dial centre signed in script Willm. ( William ) Travers with London engraved in block.Unusually, the date - 1803, is engraved just below the date box.Blued cut steel hands. | |
| Movement | Typical 'London' high quality, 8 day, 5 pillar movement with strike/silent facility and hourly ( rack ) striking. | |
| Maker | Willm. ( William ) Travers of London recorded Clockmakers Company 1781 - 1811.Pair cased, repeating, centre seconds watch, enamelled and set with pearls, by him in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. | |
| Date | May be dated to exactly 1803 this date being engraved in the dial centre - a very unusual feature. | |
| Height | 86.6" ( 220 cms. ). | |
| Price | £15,750 | |