Numbered 4366, this table clock has a possibly unique feature for the time it was made ... read on!The 8 day duration, 5 pillar, double fusee movement with Anchor Recoil escapement and rack striking the hours on a rear-mounted bell. Also having pull repeating and automatic night silencing which sounds 11pm and then remains silent until 9am the following morning. The backplate has ''wriggle work'' and line bordering which is repeated on the pendulum bob that also has a central star and a carved rod. The front plate is stamped with the maker''s initials and numbered 4366 in his usual way.Behind a 7'' diameter, bowed painted iron dial with a cream background and black inking. Having outer divided minute track, Roman hour numerals and the centre bearing the signature ''John Thwaites No., 4366. Clerkenwell''. The matching elaborated ''open moon'' hands are blued steel. The cast and locking brass bezel has a ''snapped-in'' bowed glass.Contained in an ebonised fruitwood veneered o...