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An oak bracket clock, English, J. C. Jennens & Son, Great…
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Melbourne
Date:
28-May-2008
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An oak bracket clock, English, J. C. Jennens & Son, Great Sutton Street, London, circa 1890, triple fusee movement with anchor escapement, chiming quarters on eight bells and gongs, Westminster bell chimes, gilded brass dial with silver chapter ring and subsidiary chapter rings for silent/strike, fast/slow and time selection, Roman numerals, the Gothic revival oak case decorated with 'tiled' cresting, carved ribbed corner columns, pierced wooden side frets, carved brick pattern base raised on flat feet, signed dial. Provenance: George Gyori arrived in Australia in 1957 at the age of 19, a refugee from Hungary. Brought here by the Red Cross, George became an Australian citizen in 1962 and started his own general engineering business in 1963.
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Unclassified