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Circa 1800
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16½ inches high
A handsome mahogany striking table clock with calendar and pendulum regulation. CASE The breakarch case is raised on four elegant fluted and foliate cast brass feet, the sides are set with pierced brass fishscale sound frets, the rear door is glazed and the top is surmounted by a brass handle. DIAL The 6¾ x 9 inch silvered brass dial is signed Geo. Flashman Fleet Street London in the centre of the Roman and Arabic chapter ring with calendar aperture and pierced blued steel hands; the subsidiary dials in the arch are for strike/silent and pendulum regulation. MOVEMENT The movement has five robust pillars, the wheel trains have spring barrels and fusees with wire lines; the going train has the original verge escapement with regulation platform above the plates. The strike train is regulated by a rack at the front plate and the hours are struck on a single bell above the plates. The backplate is engraved with symmetrical foliate centred by a spray of flowers. The wonderfully named George Flashman is listed as a clockmaker working in Fleet Street between 1790 and 1815, his business was succeeded by a John Tunnell.