c.1870 English Scroll Frame Skeleton Clock.
English
Inv. #: e75
Maker: Evans of Handsworth
Circa: 1870
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Late 19th century Evans' scroll frame skeleton clock with a balance platform on a white marble base.
Dial
The silvered engraved decorative skeletonized dial has stylized Roman numerals for the hours and steel-cut tre-foil hands.
Movement
The heavy 8-day single fusee movement has elaborately skeletonized plates, shaped posts screwed at both ends and finely cut six spoke wheelwork. It has a gilt platform with a lever escapement, a spiral balance spring, the fast slow lever at the front, jewels top and bottom and a bimetallic balance wheel with both timing screws and compensation weights.
Ref: For more information on Evans see: 'British Skeleton Clocks' by Roberts, pg.126.For a skeleton clock with similar frame see pg. 150.
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