GERMAN | A SMALL GILT-BRASS RENAISSANCE DRUM TIMEPIECECIRCA 1550

Estimate

17,000 - 26,000 GBP

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Description

German
A SMALL GILT-BRASS RENAISSANCE DRUM TIMEPIECECIRCA 1550

• Movement: incomplete iron movement with fusee and hogs bristle regulation, pallets and foliot lacking• Dial: with inner twenty-four hour ring and with touch pieces• Case: drum case engraved with medallion portraits linked by flowers and leaves, indistinct makers mark

Provenance

Edward Hornby Collection, Sotheby's London, Edward Hornby Collection, 1 December 1978, Lot 4

Literature

Clutton & Daniels, Watches, Batsford 1971, figs. 72/3