Small, neat, well proportioned, long door, oak case with breakarch top, side windows to hood, "flying" plain brass capped hood columns, matching hood rear quarter columns, breakarch top to trunk door and simple strip plinth to base.

12" breakarch early "Osborne" painted dial with moonphases to arch, Arabic "minutes numbered" to outer edge of Roman chapters, subsidiary seconds dial and ( early form ) raised gilt gesso spandrels. Delicately painted dog roses to dial centre.Signed M.Abraham Frome below "sad mouth" date aperture.Blued, cut steel, lozenge hands. N.B. The dial maker, Thomas Hadley Osborne, was born 1753 in Sutton Coldfield, went into partnership with James Wilson 1772/79 then alone in 1779 at Great Charles Street where he died ( 1779 ), the business then being run by his widow, Ann and son, James at 9, Whittal Street1780/1808.Hence - combined with other factors, the date attribution.

Good quality, 8 day, 4 pillar movement with hourly ( rack ) striking.

M. ( Moses ) Abraham of Frome is recorded( speculatively ) "Perhaps early 19C," - though this example, we know, is somewhat earlier.