English Dual Chime Library Clock

Description:

English Dual Chime Library Clock, retailed by M.S. Smith, Detroit, the ebonized case with flat gallery top, gilt-brass finials and applied swags, gilt corner decoration flanking the dial opening, glazed cast brass door, carrying handles, and fabric backed pierced side sound vents, foliate decoration and scrolled feet on the base, 7 1/2-in. composite brass dial with applied spandrels, chapter section with roman numerals, matted center, chime/not chime, fast/slow, and chime selection dials in the arch, eight-day, three-train, fusee movement, chiming Westminster chime on wire gongs and the other on a nest of eight bells, regulated by a pendulum with a lead-filled brass bob, ht. 25 1/2 in.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

Clock in want of an overhaul and is not running. Has pendulum, winding and door key.


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