A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)

A RARE VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY 'EXHIBITION' SKELETON CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. CIRCA 1855

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A RARE VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY 'EXHIBITION' SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. CIRCA 1855
DIAL: finely pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, chime selector to centre, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: Gothic pierced plates flanked by ormolu figures of knights to all angles and joined by five substantial double-screwed pillars, triple chain fusees, train wheels with five crossings, anchor escapement, striking/trip repeating Westminster/Cambridge quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on gong; gridiron pendulum, winding key, replaced velvet-covered and ebonised plinth and glass dome
21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) wide; 9½ in. (24 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 135, fig. 3/47c; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 57, fig. 3-40.
Smith's exhibited a two train version of this unusual model mounted with figures of knights at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (see Royer-Collard for an illustration and Roberts for a catalogue drawing). No other three train version is recorded. Another highly unusual feature is the chime change selector above chapter VI, seen also on a St Paul's Cathedral clock in Roberts (p. 75). See also lot 130, which has this feature.