| A mid 19th Century English verge made for the Turkish market in four silver and tortoiseshell cases. Full plate fire gilt movement, small Egyptian pillars with pierced galleries above. Pierced and engraved cock with pierced and engraved foot and plate for the silver regulator disc. Fine signed white
enamel dial with Turkish numerals, blue steel beetle and poker hands. Matching plain silver pair cases, long silver pendant, cast silver bow, maker's mark "WCS" in a rectangle. Third case covered in tortoiseshell decorated with silver pique pins. Fourth case of brown composition lined with red velvet, the front cover decorated in a radiating pattern of ridges.
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