Lot n° 122
A late 17th century two handed lantern clock
Peter Stretch, Leek
The strapped bell with turned finial on four robust urn supports between three foliate scroll frets, the foremost finely engraved, raised on tapered pillars and ball feet, the 6.75 inch Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fancy cruciform half hour markers, blued steel hour and minute hands, the centre engraved with a foliate design and signed Peter Stretch, Leek, now silvered. The two train weight driven movement with anchor escapement, the second wheel unusually with brass pinion leaves and outside countwheel strike with half-time hoop wheel striking on the bell via the vertically mounted hammer arbor. Together with a pendulum, two weights and an oak wall bracket. 43cms high (17ins).
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