Fine and impressive Victorian brass quarter chiming triple f...

Fine and impressive Victorian brass quarter chiming triple fusee York Minster skeleton clock attributed to Evans of Handsworth, with a pierced and engraved silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with blued steel hands, pierced plates and triple fusee movement with deadbeat anchor escapement, striking the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on a gong, ebony rod pendulum with zinc bob, upon a marble plinth, 24.5" high overall, the clock excluding the plinth 22" high (no dome) ** See Derek Roberts - British Skeleton Clocks Britain 1800-1914, pp. 68-69 for similar reference

Estimate:£8,000

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