Three-Train Quarter-Chime Skeleton Clock

This movement has a pierced frame with particularly attractive silvered brass skeletonized chapter ring with engraved flowers and Gothic numerals. The clock chimes on the quarter hour on a nest of eight bells,
the hour striking on a large gong to the rear. Elegant burgundy velvet-line base on a burr walnut oval plinth.

It is not unusual for skeleton clocks of this period to be unsigned. By the second half of the 19th century retailers were in the ascendancy and often insisted on clocks carrying their names. This clock is attributed to either Evans of Handsworth or Smiths of Clerkenwell. Evans of Handsworth signed only 5% of his output and Smiths of Clerkenwell signed even fewer. These two makers probably produced more skeleton
clocks than all the other English makers of this period.