A LARGE GILT BRASS PETITE SONNERIE STRIKING AND REPEATING FUSÉE CARRIAGE CLOCK

In a one-piece-style case, with five large bevelled glass panels, folding handle and push/repeat to the back, the silvered dial with Roman chapters, blued steel hands, detailed JAMES MCCABE, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON 1936 below the VI, with large gilt brass platform escapement, engraved cock, gold three-arm balance, triple chain fusee movement with maintaining power to the going train, chiming each quarter and the hour on a bell mounted within the base, the backplate mounted with the strike and repeat work and detailed James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London 1936 at the base, together with a Morocco leather and gilt travelling case and replacement key

18cm high (handle up)

PROVENANCE: 
Cyril Fish, thence by descent.

Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 10, No. 3, June 1977, page 50, for a biography of the McCabes and their business, with a graph of the numbering system and approximate dates.

Another carriage clock by McCabe, No. 2946, was sold in these rooms, lot 624, May 2019.

Condition report
The clock is working and it strikes and chimes.  The repeat work functions although the push-piece from the rear door is missing.  The quality of the engraving to the dial is not quite as expected and it may possibly be replaced from a previous enamel dial?  The key is a modern hand-made replacement.