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A BRASS SIX MONTH-GOING TABLE TIMEPIECE, PART LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
4½-inch silvered dial signed and inscribed C Wieland, London, Six Months, Time Keeper, the earlier cylindrical movement with baluster turned steel pillars, massive spring barrel and chain fusee with Harrison's maintaining power, the high count train mounted on the frontplate, the later platform escapement with ratchet-tooth underslung lever and compensation balance, the plain drum case with a swing handle and turned feet,
16.5cm. 6½in. high (handle down)
The Sir David Salomons Collection
Vera Bryce Salomons
L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute, Jerusalem, inventory no. CL 14-70
George Daniels & Ohannes Markarian, Watches and Clocks in the Sir David Salmons Collection, 1980, pp. 244-245