PROBABLY ENGLISH MUSICAL
AUTOMATON QUARTER STRIKING CLOCK
Anonymous, probably English, made circa 1880.
Very fine and extremely rare, musical and automaton , quarter-striking,
wood and gilt-brass, table clock, the music witHEIGHT hammers on
bells, the automatons moving left to right, and one bell playing on the
hour or at will.
Wooden, rectangular base with four stylized gilt-brass foliage feet,
the front with top aperture with characters moving from left to right
in a village surrounding
White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions.
Gilt hands.
Circular brass plates, going barrels for both trains, brass platform,
monometallic balance with timing screws, flat balance spring, index
regulator. MUSICAL AND AUTOMATON MOVEMENT rectangular
brass plates, massive going barrel, fly governor, brass pinned cylinder
acting on 8 hammers playing on a nest of 8 bells, the automatons
geared by a system of rods and levers activated when the music plays.