Fine Victorian brass skeleton clock timepiece by Smith &...

Fine Victorian brass skeleton clock timepiece by Smith & Sons, Clerkenwell, retailed by Harbinson & Co., Belfast, the brass frame with a silvered and engraved Roman numeral chapter ring and pierced circlets to the centre, blued steel hands, over a pair of flanked gilt metal recumbent lions and with a central compass, bearing the inscribed silvered retailer plaque and upon an oval ebonised stepped base, single chain fusee eight day movement with deadbeat escapement, beneath a glass dome, 14 7/8" high excluding the dome (with a triple rod pendulum) ** For similar reference see Derek Roberts - British Skeleton Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1987, P.129, figs a,b,c ** Christie's ex lot 26, 06 December 2006 ** J. Smith & Sons are recorded as working as clockmakers in St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, circa 1850-1900. They were one of two clockmakers who probably produced more skeleton clocks than all the other makers put together. The Smiths regularly produced catalogues illustrating some of their skeleton clocks and exhibited their clocks at the Great Exhibition in 1851

Estimate:£800

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