Edward Webb dated 1693. Surmounted by a large cast bell mounted on an upright iron stand secured by a single finial, the top and bottom plates measuring 5.25 by 7.25 inches and united by four rectangular-section upright pillars on tapering posts, the dial 8.5 inches square with winged-cherubs head spandrels to each corner over simple line decoration, the Roman chapter ring with fancy half-hour markers and inner quarter hour track framing the elaborately engraved centre decorated with a symmetrical pattern of flowers and foliage, with an urn at VI and rose to the centre with single pierced iron hand, the three-train weight driven movement with verge escapement and short pendulum with light bob on a screwed thread, the strike train with outside countwheel operating the vertical hammer, the arbor set with a most unusual sprung rack and pinion, the music activates every three hours, on two, five, eight and eleven o'clock. 39cms (15ins) high
Edward Webb dated 1693. Surmounted by a large cast bell mounted on an upright iron stand secured by a single finial, the top and bottom plates measuring 5.25 by 7.25 inches and united by four rectangular-section upright pillars on tapering posts, the dial 8.5 inches square with winged-cherubs head spandrels to each corner over simple line decoration, the Roman chapter ring with fancy half-hour markers and inner quarter hour track framing the elaborately engraved centre decorated with a symmetrical pattern of flowers and foliage, with an urn at VI and rose to the centre with single pierced iron hand, the three-train weight driven movement with verge escapement and short pendulum with light bob on a screwed thread, the strike train with outside countwheel operating the vertical hammer, the arbor set with a most unusual sprung rack and pinion, the music activates every three hours, on two, five, eight and eleven o'clock. 39cms (15ins) high
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