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• Lot n° 38 An exceptional mid 19th century English giant patinated brass carriage clock with twin power reserves for strike and going trains Charles Frodsham, London, No. 990 Charles Frodsham, London, No. 990 The serpentine handle set over a large bevelled glass inspection panel framed by the moulded overhanging cornice supported on rounded uprights to a moulded base, the front and sides with matching heavy bevelled glass panels, the rear solid panel with three shuttered squares for hand setting and winding, lifting out if necessary via a sliding catch and pair of pins. The rectangular 3.75inch gilt dial with a fully engraved mask of roses and other flowers and foliage scrolls against a hatched ground to act as a counterfoil to the crisp white enamel dials, the larger time dial with minute band and fine blued steel fleur de lys hands, signed across the centre CHARLES FRODSHAM, CLOCK MAKER TO THE QUEEN, 84 STRAND, LONDON, 990 set above the smaller subsidiary dials for power reserve of both movement trains, marked UP and DOWN over the 1-8 scale, with matching blued steel fleur de lys hands. The substantial twin chain fusee movement with heavy plates united by five pillars secured front and back with collets and blued steel screws; the going train with maintaining power, terminating in a large shaped gilt platform fully engraved in the manner of a watch cock with foliate scrolls on a hatched ground, the shaped cock with jewelled endstone to a flat spiral hairspring carrying a cut and compensated bimetallic balance with heavy timing weights to a jewelled English style lever escapement. The strike train striking the half-hours and the full hours on a large circular-section blued steel gong mounted on a raised heavy brass block set into the base, with Strike/Silent selection lever to the backplate. The highly polished backplate signed across the centre Arnold's, CHARLES FRODSHAM, Clock Maker to the Queen, 84 STRAND, LONDON, 990. Ticking and striking. 26 (10.25ins) high.