A unique and impressive brass-banded clockwork automaton mod...
Hammer
£1,500
A unique and impressive brass-banded clockwork automaton model of a sea fort, presented over four graduating tiers furnished with stepped battlements and cannon over a rotating turret with internal bells which chime every 15 minutes on a full wind, the central hinged doorway inscribed to portico ‘Republique Francaise’, all raised on a shaped solid mahogany base with integral stepped stairway, 40cm high, 40 x 46cm, French, 19th century
Recently serviced by the workshop of famed horologist Steve Fletcher, regular expert in the BBC’s Repair Shop
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Hammer
£1,500
A unique and impressive brass-banded clockwork automaton model of a sea fort, presented over four graduating tiers furnished with stepped battlements and cannon over a rotating turret with internal bells which chime every 15 minutes on a full wind, the central hinged doorway inscribed to portico ‘Republique Francaise’, all raised on a shaped solid mahogany base with integral stepped stairway, 40cm high, 40 x 46cm, French, 19th century
Recently serviced by the workshop of famed horologist Steve Fletcher, regular expert in the BBC’s Repair Shop
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