| A late 18th Century English verge with windmill automaton dial in silver pair cases. Full plate fusee movement with round pillars. Pierced and engraved round cock, silver regulator disc, plain three arm steel balance. White enamel dial, the centre with a polychrome enamel rural scene showing
a cottage and a man leading a horse. Seconds set at nine o'clock, a windmill at its centre, the sails rotating on the contrate wheel arbor, one of them with a point to indicate the seconds. Small Arabic numerals, gilt hands. Silver pair cases, silver round pendant, lateral steel stop lever. The inner case engraved "W Cornell K S" and the date 1801 in a band below the winding aperture, Maker's mark
"NTW" in a rectangle.
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