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DESBOIS & WHEELER, LONDON; FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
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A Regency mahogany striking bracket clock
Desbois & Wheeler, London; first quarter 19th century
The case with gilt-brass handle on a rectangular pad to the break-arch top, pierced-brass fishscale sound frets to the sides and foliate pierced and engraved gilt-metal quarter frets to the front door, glazed rear door, the case on gilt-brass bracket feet, the cream painted Roman dial indistinctly signed Desbois & Wheeler Grays Inn Passage, pierced blued steel hands, strike/silent lever above XII, the five pillar twin chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and strike on bell, similarly signed plain backplate with pendulum holdfast and movement securing brackets
14½ ins 37 cm high
Desbois & Wheeler, London; first quarter 19th century
The case with gilt-brass handle on a rectangular pad to the break-arch top, pierced-brass fishscale sound frets to the sides and foliate pierced and engraved gilt-metal quarter frets to the front door, glazed rear door, the case on gilt-brass bracket feet, the cream painted Roman dial indistinctly signed Desbois & Wheeler Grays Inn Passage, pierced blued steel hands, strike/silent lever above XII, the five pillar twin chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and strike on bell, similarly signed plain backplate with pendulum holdfast and movement securing brackets
14½ ins 37 cm high