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Lot 23

A SCOTTISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

By John Breakenrig, Edinburgh, circa 1790

Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer price: £260
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

The case with a swan-neck pediment centred by a brass eagle and sphere finial, above arched glazed door and fluted tapering columns, the trunk with a wavy arch top panel door, between fluted quarter-column mouldings, above a panelled base and stepped plinth, on bracket feet, the 13in arched silvered dial, signed in the arch and engraved all over with foliage , the centre with seconds subsidiary and calendar aperture, pierced blued steel hands, the twin train movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on a bell

214cm high


CONDITION REPORT
With steel rod brass bob pendulum and two cast-iron weights.  The case has been polished and is in good order.  The movement appears in good order, whilst not showing signs of a recent service, which it might benefit from.  There is no key. Dimensions of the dial are 33.5cm wide x 48cm high.

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