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31413C.M A most unusual and attractive gilded and engraved mantel clock. The case with flowing buttress sides and a semi architectural top reminiscent of an oriental palace. It has dentil style detail above and below the dial. The base and the sides have panels edged with cast bead work and engraving in the middle of the panels. There is engraving to the top of the case and to the sides of the front. The rear door lifts out and again has an engraved design in its middle. The heavily engraved and silvered dial has serpentine engraving inside and outside the round chapter ring. The ring is signed for the maker Manoah Rhodes & Co, Bradford. It has Roman numerals and nicely shaped poker and beetle hands of blued steel. |
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| The eight day gong striking movement is of unusual
construction with a shaped and cut away backplate making the large
platform lever escapement visible above the plate. It winds from the back
and the blued steel gong is mounted on the backplate and extends through a
slot in the case work. There is also a hand setting square on the
backplate.
The wheel work is of fine quality. Height: 9.5" (24 cms.) The maker Manoah Rhodes & Co were an interesting Bradford firm. The founder, Manoah Rhodes, was Mayor of Bradford in 1873 and 1874 and had worked firstly from Westgate, Bradford between 1837 and 1866. He then took his sons into the business and moved to Kirkgate in Bradford where the firm continued until the early 1900s. |
