FJ & RD Story Antique Clocks has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
The well made pyramid style oak case with carved work to the front, surmounted by carved cresting.
Cast brass bezel and inner cast brass sight ring.
A very good quality twin fusee, chain driven, 5 pillar 8 day movement, in fully restored condition.
The clock strikes the hours and half hour on a curled blued steel gong.
The engraved and silvered circular brass dial, signed Maple & Co London.
Blued steel hands.
Measuring: 16" tall, 13" wide and 8.5" deep.
Maple of London
Founded in 1841 by John Maple, manufacturing and retailing from the hub of the furniture centre in London’s Tottenham Court Road, and through the founder & his son’s drive and excellence of the products of the company, expanded greatly, to have further workshops and points of sale in both Paris and Buenos Aires, and later, a shop in Smyrna.
Clients included Queen Victoria and members of the Royal Household, the King of Siam, and the Nicholas, Tsar of Russia.
Later Maple would furnish the Royal yachts, the QE1 and the QE2.
FJ & RD Story Antique Clocks has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
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