$12,000
Victorian Long Case Tubular Bell Chime Clock, Donne & Son, London, c. 1889, mahogany case, hood with carved cresting, fabric-backed sound frets and freestanding fluted brass columns flanking the engraved and chased silvered brass dial signed in the arch Donne & Son , Cornhill, London , A.D. 1889 , applied gilt Arabic numerals, susidiary chime selection (Westminster/Whittington) and strike/silent dials in arch, waist with freestanding fluted brass columns flanking the glazed tombstone door, fabric-backed pierced wood sound frets on sides, eight-day, time, strike, and dual chime on nine tubular bells movement, silvered beat scale, pulleys with four spokes, three brass-cased weights, and a single-jar temperature-compensating mercury pendulum, ht. 99 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-02
