The movement comprises two tandem wheel trains; the front going train has a brass great
wheel with iron click and spring, brass grooved barrel and iron front wheel engaging with
an iron winding pinion wound through the front of the dial on the left side. The second and
contrate have the original wheels, arbors and ring-turned convex brass collets, the escape
wheel is atop the plates pivoting on a knife-edge and with steel pendulum rod and with
pear-shaped and ring-turned brass bob.
The strike train is similar to the going train having a brass great wheel with steel hammer
pins, steel click and click spring, grooved brass barrel with iron wheel at the back
engaging with a large iron winding pinion with long iron arbor extending to a hole in the
right side of the dial. The remainder of the strike train comprises a hoop wheel, third wheel
with warning pin and brass countwheel is planted on the backplate. The hours are struck
on a large bell held by four pierced brass straps to each finial.
SIZE: 14¼ ins. (36.5cm.) high; 5¾ ins. (14.5cm.) wide; 8¼ ins. (21.5cm.) deep.
PRICE: £18,000
LITERATURE:
Ernest L. Edwardes, The Story of the
Pendulum Clock, 1977, Illustrated b/w plates
84 & 85, pp. 182 & 183
Sir George White Bt.., English Lantern
Clocks, 1989, p. 255, figs V/101 & 2
C.F.C. Beeson, Clockmaking in Oxfordshire,
1400-1850, pp. 108-109, figs. 37 & 38
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