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A Fine Rare James Condliff Twin Train Turret Clock
SOLD
SIMILAR WANTED
from £3,188
from £3,188
Ref: 9424
- A Fine Rare James Condliff Twin Train Turret Clock & 11ft 6" Pendulum
- This impressive turret clock movement may well have originated from Llanbedr Hall, Llanbedr-Dyffryn-Clwyd, near Ruthin, Denbighshire.
- Signed and dated on an engraved plaque to the front 'James Condliff MAKER 1827 Liverpool.
- James Condliff (C. 1790 - 1861) of Liverpool was a highly individual maker, constantly updating his case, dial and movement designs.
- The latest research his turret clocks can be divided into two types.
- 1. The William Leigh of Newton-Le-Willos style thought to have been made from 1819 to around 1854. Typical characteristics are: a straight vertical side frames or flat section and wedged rather than bolted frame.
- 2. The 'Flared' style as this turret clock. Typical characteristics are pillar frame spacers, the left and right side of the frame slope inwards.
- The chair type frame with flared plates united by very substantial baluster pillars secured by large square nuts at both ends, the upper six pillars measuring 7 ½" in length, the lower three 16 ¾" in length.
- The weight driven movement with 15 ½" diameter great wheel; the going train terminating in a 7" 'scape wheel with deadbeat teeth projecting ¾" from the periphery of the wheel at 90 degrees, and set with detachable steel pallets pivotted on a pierced arched upper section to a crutch with adjustable lateral pin below'.
- The great wheel driving a jackshaft faced with a brass time-setting dial marked in minutes rotating once an hour and driving the lead - off shafts for the motion work (now lacking) and furthermore releasing the three-wheel striking train governed by a six-spoke countwheel and a large four-bladed fly with adjustable vaness and over-run ratchet system.
- Together with the original seasoned and painted pendulum.
- This measures: 39 ½" Long x 28" Tall x 24" Deep.
- The pendulum measures: 11ft 6".
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