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Lot 1325
This item has been imported from outside the UK to be sold at auction under Temporary Admission. The Buyer becomes the importer and as such import VAT calculated from the hammer price will be added to the invoice at the following rates: 5% import VAT applies on the hammer price as the item is over 100 years old.

A RARE GILT METAL AND SILVERED AUTOMATON ‘LIGHTHOUSE’ TIMEPIECE WITH DUPLEX ESCAPEMENT

By André Romain Philéas Guilmet, Paris, No 1978, circa 1900

Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Hammer price: £3,500
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Modelled as a lighthouse, with a domed top and finial, above the ‘lamp’ formed with a glass cylinder and oscillating glass bars to imitate the light, with a galleried platform, above tapering column with circular enamel dial and stepped base, the underside of the base stamped 1978 and DH

25cm high

**PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS SOLD SUBJECT TO 5% IMPORT VAT

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks, Schiffer, 1999, p.258


CONDITION REPORT
In good condition and working.  The gallery has lost its original pierced balustrading and is replaced by plain bars and uprights.

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