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Domestic iron clock; verge escapement with balance; weight-driven; striking mechanism (now incomplete) sounding the hours and half-hours; formerly fitted with alarum mechanism (now missing); painted iron dial-plate includes aperture indicating phases of moon. TRAIN-COUNTS. Going. Gt wheel 48 2nd wheel 48/8 Crown wheel 21/6 Striking. Gt wheel 48 2nd wheel 42/6 Pin wheel 30/6 Fly 6 Gt wheel has extended arbor with pinion of 4 driving hour-wheel of 45. Hour wheel carries pinion of 6 which drives intermediate lunar wheel of 50 whose pinion of 5 drives lunar wheel/disc of 59.
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