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A French carriage clock with enamelled dial and repeat, 18cm high/Provenance: Spetchley Park CONDITION REPORT: 637:Glass panels a little grubby with slight chips to face left and side panel left. Clock currently in working order. Case much tarnished. Quarter striking hammer in-operable so repeats on one gong only. Incorrect key.
MARGAINE (FRANCOIS-ARSENE) A FRENCH REPEATING BRASS AND ENAMEL CARRIAGE CLOCK, the white enamel dial with Roman numerals above an alarm dial, within a gilt mask, enameled side panels on copper, probably " Limoges", the movement with "Margaine trademark and numbered "6882" ,striking on a coiled gong, in a brass case with corinthium columns and swing handle, 19cm high, including the handle
Gay, Lamaille & Company, Paris a striking carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a replaced platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a gong with a repeat button to the top sounding the last hour at will, the backplate stamped with the maker's initials E.G.L. within an oval along with the serial number 4002, the white enamel dial with black Roman hour numerals, blued steel hands and signed for the retailer Carrington & Co, 130 Regent Street W, the brass corniche case with a three bail handle, height 17.5cms handle up 14.5cms handle down. * Biography The initials E.G.L. are for the maker Gay, Lamaille & Company who obtained the patent for the Patent Surety Roller in 1880 having been first patented in 1879 by the inventor Moritz Immisch, born 1838, and being a mechanical device designed to ensure the accuracy of the strikework in a carriage clock by use of a small roller with a crescent cut out keeping the star wheel in place before the following hour is struck. * Note Reference Prof. Thomas Wotruba, The Story behind Patent Surety Roller stamped on Carriage Clocks pub. Antiquarian Horological Society, June, 2017.
A French Victorian carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a gong with a repeat button to the top sounding the last hour at will, the brass dial having an applied chapter ring with black Arabic numerals within individual roundels, a decorative filigree centre and blued steel decorative hands, signed for the retailer Brown & Sons, Paris Make, the brass case with canted corners, brass finials and stylised handle, height 19cms handle up 15.5cms handle down.

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