A very good quality late Victorian mahogany acrhed top Bracket/Table Clock with canted corners and brass string inlay and carrying handle.The Clock has an extremely nice quality engraved silvered dial with a slow-fast and silent-strike mechanism. The Clock has a German Winterhalder & Hofmeier ting tang movement which strikes the quarters, half hours and hours on two gongs.The Clock movement is stamped on the back plate with the makers name:- W&HWinterhalder & Hofmeier were considered the finest clockmakers in the Victorian era, they came from a family of clockmakers. They were based Germany’s Black Forest region. The company was established in 1810 by Thomas Winterhalder, and was continued by his three sons Matthäus, Karl and Linus.Thomas’ son Matthaus took over in 1830 and in 1850 Anton Hofmeier joined the company, who was himself a clockmaker and relative to the Winterhalder family. The company then became known as W...