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ANTIQUE #SA843513

A Mahogany Fusee Movement, One-piece Drop-dial Wall Clock & Mercurial Barometer. Extremely Rare. Circa 1840

£3,150    $4,254    €3,705
An incredibly rare bow dial fusee wall clock incorporating a full size mercurial barometer to the lower portion. In excellent condition.
 
The eight day duration, gut fusee movement with Anchor Recoil escapement, shouldered plates and knopped pillars.
 
Behind a 12 inch diameter, bowed painted iron dial with black Roman numerals, minute ring with triangular hour markings and a further outer circle. Also, matching ornate blued steel ''spade'' hands and a cast brass hinged bezel with bow glass.
 
Contained in a well French-polished flame mahogany case of good colour. Having an Ogee moulded dial surround, two large side access doors, moulding to the trunk below the dial surround and the trunk having a cavetto shape to the lower throat which then transforms into the lower portion of a Georgian mercurial ''Banjo'' wheel barometer! The eight inch diameter engraved and silvered barometer dial has a scale in inches and the centre has a scene of farmland and buildings including a windmill. T...
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M. C. Taylor
Clockmakers and Restorers Established 1987
Dorset
United Kingdom
Tel: 01202 429718
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