Victorian skeleton clock representing Westminster Abbey

Case: Brass, with walnut wood base (new).

Dial: chapter ring , silvered and worked with roman numbers for hours and . Blue steel hands.

Movement: anchor escapement with triple “fusée” and chain. Hours strike on gong and quarter on eight bells. Eight days of charge. Mercury compensed pendulum.

Attribuited to: Evans HANDSWORTH, Birmingham.

Signed: on two metal plates by the reseller Heselton-Bridlington.

Period: England, circa 1865.

Dimentions: H. 60 cm. W. 47 cm. D. 28 cm.

Notes:
Similar models are published on books "British Skeleton Clocks" of D.Roberts at page 65 (fig.2/23) and at page 148 (fig.3/61); and "Skeleton Clocks" of F.B.Royer-Collard, at page 5 (fig.1-3).

The clock is accompained by it's glass dome (new).