£7,500
A large and impressive Victorian brass 'St Paul's Cathedral' skeleton clock, with 9 inch gilt dial, with twin train chain fusee striking the hour and with passing strike on the half hour, the clock 45cm high, on a purple velvet pedestal incorporating an aneroid barometer, the silvered dial signed 'Smith & Sons, Clerkenwell', the movement indirectly wound via winding arbors in the finely carved walnut base, the whole including dome 76cm high, with pendulum and original winding key, (dome cracked at rear).
For a comparable example see: Bonhams, New Bond Street, 10 Dec 2014, Lot 132
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21.60% inc VAT*
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25.2% inc VAT*