Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
McCabe, James
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge movement
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Jas. McCabe Royal Exchange' on barrel bridge and 'No. 8463 LONDON' on back plate. Balance cock with table pierced and engraved with a mask on the neck, table edge cut away to provide banking, foot engraved. Back of foot stamped 'SW', '8463' with small 'I.M'. Flat polished steel balance. Plain slide plate under balance with brass regulation figure registering on scale engraved on plate, scale marked 'Slow' and 'Fast' at ends. Top plate stamped '8463' on underside above the contrate wheel. Shaped fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt, in slot, nib at side. Potance with plain foot having moulding at end, fixed by screw. Counter-potance riveted to plate. Pillar plate with four turned pillars with a ring at each end. Centre wheel recessed, third wheel bar. Stamped under dial '17, 8463' and small 'I.MC'. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, barrel with no lip. Verge escapement. Train planted clockwise.
BRASS EDGE: Flat on plate, 'us 5/18' scratched on plate side.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Minute ring with cross minute lines and diamond shapes at quarters, radial Roman chapters, '8463' inscribed under XII. Large seconds circle above VI with cross seconds marks, long lines every 5 seconds, radial Arabic figures every 5 seconds.
CAP: Plain with circular table, cut-out to let the balance cock through.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white)
copper
Movement
composed of
steel
brass (alloy)
Thickness 18 mm
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 40 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 43.5 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 45 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 5 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'Jas. McCabe Royal Exchange'
- Location: Movement, barrel bridge
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Maker's name
- Text: 'No. 8463 LONDON'
- Location: Movement, back plate
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Number
- Text: '17, 8463', small 'I.MC'
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Stamped
- Type: Number
- Text: 'us 5/18'
- Location: Brass edge, plate
- Method of creation: Scratch
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.70-1923
Primary reference Number: 207504
Movement no.: 8463
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Wednesday 6 January 2016
Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
