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A GOOD ENGLISH BRASS MOUNTED EBONIZED REPEATING MUSICAL BRACKET CLOCK, STEPHEN RIMBAULT, CIRCA 1770
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Description
19 1/2-cm silvered dial engraved with scrolls and birds signed Stepn Rimbault London, chapter ring with Roman numerals and date aperture, blued pierced hands, subsidiaries in the arch for chime/silent and strike/silent below an arched subsidiary for tune selection, gilt rococo spandrels, five pillar three train fusee movement with verge escapement, trip repeating rack hour striking on a bell, playing one of six melodies hourly or at will with 25 hammers on 13 bells, backplate well engraved with foliage similarly signed, brass mounted ebonized case with bell top surmounted by flambeau finials, caryatid and trailing flower mounts on the angled corners, carrying handles above elaborate brass side frets, the whole raised on scroll feet, case numbered 2366