JOHN SMITH (c.1844-c.1900)

1203

Vale, Bury St. Edmunds

  17.00 inch high

  43.18 cm high

Fully restored

A lovely quality passing strike skeleton clock with an eight day, chain fusee movement striking once on a bell at each hour. The silvered chapter ring, of typical Smith's form, is engraved with black Roman numerals and has blued steel spade hands. The scroll shaped plates have turned pillars, with an engraved, silvered scroll plaque to the front plate signed ‘Vale, Bury St. Edmunds’. Standing on an oval white marble oval base typical of this maker and complete with glass dome.
Although signed by the clockmaker John Vale this piece was made for him by John Smiths of Clerkenwell.
John Vale worked as both a clockmaker and retailer at 14, Abbeygate Street, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk from 1839 until 1864. There is a clock by Vale in the famous Gershom Parkington collection of clocks & watches.

gbp 3250.00 (Pound Sterling)

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