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Silver skeleton chapter ring with four o'clock shown IV, indicating that the clock has roman striking, and the minutes numbered individually.  Silver sec\u00aconds ring.  Faceted blued steel hands of the second type as classified by Lee, the circular hour hand.  The day of the month shown through a square aperture immediately about VI.  Signed at the base of the dial \u2018Joseph Knibb Londini fecit'.\n\nMovement: Month duration movement with five wheel going train and four wheel striking train.  Roman strik\u00acing, a Knibb invention which utilizes a small high pitched bell for the \u2018I's and a larger, deeper toned bell for the \u2018V's.  This requires only 30 blows for twelve hours compared with 78 for conventional stri\u00acking, hence the use of a four wheel striking train.  Butterfly nut adjustment at top of pendulum suspen\u00acsion.  Separate cock for pallet arbor.  The movement was not provided with maintaining power.\n\nCase: Carcase of oak veneered with ebony except for sides of plinth which are veneered with ebonised fruit wood.  Ebonised twist columns to hood.  Hood con\u00acverted from rising to sliding forward but the grooves remain in the hood.  The top board has been replaced, probably because the original contained a sound aperture covered with hessian.  The side win\u00acdows are of the early type, the same height as the front opening.  There are very finely carved ebonised crestings to front and sides of the hood.  The trunk door and sides with raised panels.  The trunk door lock and brass hinges are later replace\u00acments.  The bun feet also are probably replacements.  Fine gilt metal mounts:- corinthian capitals and bases, swags between the capitals, finials, rare grotesque mask mount above trunk door and lenticle frame."}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"M.2-1965","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"M.2-1965"},{"priref":"137656","type":"priref","value":"137656"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/137656","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/137656"}],"inscription":[{"location":"basis of the dial","method":"engraved","transcription":[{"value":"Joseph Knibb Londini fecit"}],"type":"signature"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-164806","uid":"adlib-agent-164806","uuid":"32ad1dba-2b4e-3170-bad1-91ce6cb808a1"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"legal":{"credit_line":"Bequeathed by S.E. 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