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Graham Successor
A FINE SILVER PAIR CASED QUARTER REPEATING CYLINDER WATCH CIRCA 1755, NO. 976
• Movement: gilded full plate, cylinder escapement, steel escape wheel, decoratively pierced balance cock engraved with foliage, a head at the neck, diamond endstone, fusee and chain, cylindrical pillars, striking a bell to the inside case back, signed and numbered Graham Succr., London, 976, bell scratch signed Drury
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute ring, blued steel beetle and poker hands
• Cases: silver inner, the band pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage, a grotesque mask at the base, numbered 976 beneath the plain pendant and bow • outer case with similarly pierced and engraved decoration to the bezels, pulse piece to the bezel between 5 and 6 o'clock, the back centred with elaborately engraved monogram, bezel with grotesque masks N, E, S and W, both cases with maker's mark TC in rectangular cameo for possibly Thomas Colley or Thomas Carpenter Senior
diameter of outer case 50mm, inner case 42mm
Estimate
5,000
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8,000
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