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31411C.C A fully engraved gilt brass carriage clock. The case of early multipiece design is fully engraved with fine engraving and also has a well engraved mask to the round dial. The carrying handle is held within two lions’ heads and the case has a plain shuttered rear door with apertures for the winding holes, handset, strike/no strike and regulation. The round enamel dial has Roman numerals and small spade shaped hands. The eight day standing barrel movement has an uncompensated lever platform escapement and strikes the hours on a bell mounted on the backplate. The clock has the unusual feature of two repeat buttons on the front top edge. One is marked ‘H’ for hours and the other is marked with ‘Q’. 'H' reepats the last hour when pushed and 'Q' repeats the last quarter by one, two or three strikes on the bell. This is a most unusual carriage clock. We have not come across this striking/repeating mechanism on any other clock, although we do know that others exist. The clock stands some 6" tall to the base of the handle (15.5 cms.) |
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This unusual clock was presumably manufactured in Paris and then brought over for sale by J F Cooper. He was noted as working in London during the mid 19th Century. Given the unusual nature of the repeating work it is possible, or indeed probable, that this clock, although being brought in as a part finished movement, was finished by Cooper himself in London.
J. F. Cooper is
recorded as working in London during the mid 19th century.
He would have imported this clock, possibly part finished, from Paris and
may well have fitted this unusual repeating work.
We have not seen this type of repeat system before, but an almost
identical case can be found on page 88 of “Carriage & Other Travelling
Clocks” by
Derek Roberts.
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