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Charles Gretton, London a marquetry longcase clock with an eight-day duration movement having five finned pillars and striking the hours on a bell with rack strike, the twelve-inch square brass dial with a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, outer Arabic five minute numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markings and half-quarter diamond markings, the matted centre with ringed winding holes, subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, cast brass female-head spandrels to the four corners, decorative blued steel hands and engraved to the centre 'Chas Gretton, London', the walnut case with all-over bird-and-flower marquerty, the flat top hood with giltwood capitals to the quarter columns, marquetry inlay to the top frieze and wood frets to the sides, with a bulls-eye lenticle glass to the trunk and standing on bun feet, height: 220cm.
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
Realised: £4,000
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