DESCRIPTION:
France, Comtoise lantern clock, 8 day, time and strike, weight driven condensed movement with verge escapement, wire suspension with rear-hanging pendulum in an iron posted case with hammered brass doors, cast brass dial with inset white enamel cartouches with blue Roman numerals, brass outer ring with Arabic numerals every 5 minutes, two steel hands, topped by cast bronze fronton featuring trumpeters and a forward facing Gallic rooster, all sitting on four turned brass feet.
CONDITION:
Two of the applied enamel cartouches have fine hairline cracks, but they are overall very good. Cast fronton is very nice. Lower cartouche for the maker's name is missing. Bell is absent. Brass movement mounting posts are a departure from the iron posts in most Comtoise clocks. The crutch acts directly on pendulum leader with no linkage necessary. Unusual asymmetrical movement places the winding arbors in unconventional locations on the dial. New cords on wood winding drums. The movement appears to be clean. Indistinct letters or arrows are scribed into the top and bottom of brass doors. No weights or pendulum come with this clock.
ESTIMATE:
$400
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$600
PRICE SOLD:
$500
CIRCA: mid 18th Century
DIMENSIONS: 14in x 8.25in x 3.75in
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