DESCRIPTION:
Ever Ready Specialties Co., London, a rare electromagnetic mantel timepiece designed by Herbert Scott, the arabic numeral white enamel dial with blued steel hands and nickelled bezel, supported by four slender columns with flaring bases, decorative turnings, and two turned finials, brass movement with two wheel train, the pendulum with unusual knife edge suspension and cylindrical brass bob, swinging front to back behind the dial, and receiving periodic impulse from an electromagnet, all on a molded, rectangular mahogany base with adjustable brass feet, level, terminals at the back, and protected by a rectangular dome with beveled glasses and mirrored back, with molded mahogany top matching the base, serial #1305
CONDITION:
very good overall, nickel plating very good, dial with a few minor scratches, hour hand with minor bends, bezel with minor dent at left where it joins the column, bob and indicator good, trailer a poorly made replacement, base with minor dings and scratches, wooden components with fading, dome very good, mirror with minor crack at upper right, not running. Herbert Scott (1865- 1943) was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. In 1902 he secured a patent for the mechanism used in this clock. A variation on Hipp's toggle, there are V notches at the tips of all escape wheel teeth, and a pivoted, L shaped trailer at the top of the pendulum rod. Following impulse, the trailer gathers the escape wheel teeth one at a time, thereby steadily advancing the hands. The pendulum amplitude eventually falls to a point where the trailer will no longer gather another tooth, and comes to rest in the V notch at a tooth tip. A projection on the trailer now is in line with the contact, and closes the circuit, thereby energizing the magnet, and providing impulse to the pendulum.
ESTIMATE:
$2000
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$3000
PRICE SOLD:
$1800
CIRCA: 1905
DIMENSIONS: 15in x 13.5in x 8in
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