English 8 Tube Oak Grandfather Clock

English 8 Tube Oak Grandfather Clock

Estimate:
[restrict paid=ture]$5,000 – $7,500[/restrict]
Auctioneer:
[restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]
Sold Price:
[restrict paid=ture]$3,000[/restrict]
Sold Date:
[restrict paid=ture]8:00 AM – Nov 22, 2014[/restrict]

English 8 Tube Oak Grandfather Clock. Quality 14 in. silvered dial has black incised Roman hour numerals surrounded by engraved swirling filigree, fancy pierced hands, 3 in. sub seconds dial and sub dials above for “Chime/Silent” & “Westminster Chimes/Whittington Chimes”. Quality brass 8 day weight driven movement is unsigned, has a Graham deadbeat escapement, maintaining power, half hour strike on 8 silvered tubular chimes signed “W. Moore, London” and strikes the hour on a coiled gong; has 3 brass covered weights with brass pulleys and a quality 1 glass jar mercurial compensating pendulum with a long steel rod. In a quality oak case, carved bonnet with broken pediment crest with turned finial, rosettes, filigree carved frieze, quarter columns on the corners and pierced carved side panels the body of the case has turned quarter columns, mullioned beveled glasses on the door and a relief filigree carved inset lower panel. In beautiful cleaned and restored condition, excellent refinished case. 103 in. high x 25 in. wide x 16 in. deep.