A Victorian Brass Skeleton Timepiece With Passing - Aug 28, 2014 | Dreweatts Donnington Priory In United Kingdom
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A Victorian brass skeleton timepiece with passing
A Victorian brass skeleton timepiece with passing
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A Victorian brass skeleton timepiece with passing strike Edward Scales, Manchester for Thomas Lees, Bury, mid 19th century The single chain fusee movement with five-spoke wheel crossings to all except the escape wheel, anchor escapement, pierced mainspring barrel and passing strike set between scroll-outline brass plates united by five turned brass pillars and with bell mounted above, the rear stamped EDW. SCALES, MANCHESTER, 254, the front fitted with brass Roman numeral chapter ring engraved Tho.s Lees, Bury to lower margin and blued steel fleur-de-lys hands, 29cm (11.5ins) high; mounted on a moulded rectangular Carrara marble base with glass dome cover, 34cm (13.5ins) high overall. A Thomas Lees is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Bury circa 1790-1814. An Edward Scales is recorded by Baillie as the inventor of a detached lever escapement working in Manchester around 1800 who may be the same maker (or possibly the father of a maker by the same name) listed by Loomes in volume 2 as working in Manchester circa 1848-51.
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A Victorian brass skeleton timepiece with passing

Estimate £300 - £500
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Starting Price £150

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