Lot n° 47
The bell topped case surmounted by a brass carrying handle over a well moulded cornice, the front door with similar moulded decoration and pierced sound frets, shaped sides with inset observation windows, all on a moulded base raised on four block feet. The 6.5-inch arched brass dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring enclosing a matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar apertures, framed by four cast gilt-brass spandrels, set to the arch with subsidiary dials for strike/silent and rise-and-fall pendulum regulation, signed to an applied silvered plaque William Nicoll, Edinburgh. The substantial movement united by five knopped pillars with verge escapement and twin gut fusees, the going train with pivoted verge to a pendulum with engraved lenticular brass bob, the rack strike system acting on a bell. The finely engraved backplate with foliate scrollwork and four stalks, secured in the case by a pair of engraved brass brackets. Ticking and striking, and sold with two case keys and a winding key. 48cms (19.25ins) high.
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