Description

An 18^th Century English verge with silver champleve dial by Kipling in silver pair cases.  Full plate fire gilt movement with square baluster pillars.  Pierced and engraved masked cock with second steady screw to the table.  Pierced and engraved foot and plate engraved with a hand pointing to the silver regulator disc.  Fusee and chain with worm and wheel barrel setup between the plates. Plain three arm gilt balance, blue steel spiral hairspring.  Brass edge to the signed silver champleve dial, Roman and Arabic numerals, blue steel beetle and poker hands.  Matching silver pair cases, silver pendant and stirrup bow.  The movement released from the case by inserting the tip of a silver key into a small hole at six o’clock.  Plain silver outer case, both case with maker’s mark “IH” below a coronet and bearing the number corresponding to that on the movement.