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Circa 1820
Sold
10 inches (26cm) high
A pretty Regency mahogany mantel timepiece with alarm. CASE The break-arched brass-mounted case is raised on small brass bracket feet, it has pretty foliate-pierced brass sound frets to the sides and a small carrying handle to the top. DIAL The silvered 4-inch silvered dial is signed GRANT Fleet Street LONDON No. 161, it has an engraved Roman & Arabic chapter ring with train track divisions, arrow-shaped blued steel hands and a silvered alarm disc in the centre. MOVEMENT The movement going train has a brass spring barrel and gut fusee with verge escapement and bob pendulum. The alarm barrel is mounted on the backplate and wound through the right side of the case, the backplate is similarly signed GRANT Fleet street LONDON No.161.