Document Details John Williamson; a walnut year-going longcase clock with full hour striking and quarter repeating, Leeds, circa 1690, 232 cm high:
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- Title: John Williamson; a walnut year-going longcase clock with full hour striking and quarter repeating, Leeds, circa 1690, 232 cm high
SubTitle: 11 1/4 inch dial, skeletonised chapter ring, subsidiary seconds at 12, finely pierced steel hands, - Author: John WIlliamson
- Publisher:
Keywords: highgrade specific
Other Keywords: yeargoing
Notes: Time Museum Inventory No.717, substantial movement with two steel braces reinforcing the lower front and back plates, with four knopped pillars, reversed trains of six wheels, the fifth wheel and escape wheel mounted in a subframe, the strike with inside rack and the upper train wheels mounted in a second subframe, pull quarter repeating, on two bells with a further bell for the hour, the case with a naively carved cherup cresting with three giltwood ball finials above a moulded cornice, and a REPLACED frieze fret.
Edition: Lot 78 -- Copyright: 1999
Kind: Auction Catalog
Type: Floor clock
Geographic area: United Kingdom
Topic: NA/Other
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 280-281
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 9482
Parent Document ID: 537 - Parent Document Title: Masterpieces from the Time Museum, Dec. 2, 1999 New York - Publisher:
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