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A fine George III walnut-cased twin-fusee bracket clock with pull-repeat. Allam & Clements, London, (fl. 1764-95). Having a 6.75-inch white enamelled dial with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, within scroll spandrels, beneath signature tablet ALLAM & CLEMENTS LONDON flanked by subsidiary dials for regulation and Strike/Silent, the wire-driven twin-fusee movement, with verge and crownwheel escapement, and pull-repeat cord, having knopped pillars and finely-engraved backplate with holdfast, the figured case having an ogee caddy top with balustroid central finial with fluted pedestal between pierced brass crestings and ball corner finials, over a canted shaped arched glazed door with brass mounted, the side frets pierced and engraved with baskets amidstscrollwork, beneath cast carrying handles, on a cavetto-moulded plinth and brass ogee bracket feet, 19, (48cm) high.
Dial has minor flake losses to winding squares. Movement is a probable conversion from verge to anchor and back to verge again, wire to fuse is replaced, the pendulum is a replacement. Case, finials replaced, general veneer cracks and some losses around one sound fret, otherwise structurally sound.