A fine French gilt brass five minute-repeating carriage clock with dumb-strike Retailed by Mangan, Rhodes and Son, Bradford, late 19th century The eight-day gong hour-striking movement with silvered platform lever escapement and five minute repeat on a second smaller gong, the rear with plunger operated hammer arrest lever and stamped with small indistinct trademark serial number 20724 to lower margin, the dial with rectangular gilt engine-turned mask enclosing an inset Roman numeral enamel hour disc inscribed MANGAN RHODES & SON, Bradford to centre within red Arabic five minutes to outer track and with blued steel moon hands, the gilt brass bevel-glazed cannelee case with hinged carrying handle to the glazed oval panel centred top incorporating 5 Minutes and Hours repeat plungers to front edge and a further plunger labelled Dumb Striking to the rear, with complex upper mouldings, channelled corner uprights and ogee-shaped skirt base, 14cm (5.5ins) high excluding handle. Five-minute repeating clocks are discussed in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development on pages 197-98. Of the two variations described by Allix the current lot falls into the first with the strike-work being related to that of a grande or petit sonnerie striking clock. However the present clock is unusual in being of this type but having separate plungers for sounding full five minute repeat or hours only as well as well as dumb striking. Although seemingly very scarce another very closely related example, this time in an engraved case and numbered 20721 (ie. only three numbers before the present clock), was sold in these rooms on Tuesday 2nd October (lot 141) for £2,200 hammer. A further example with this unusual configuration (numbered 20720) was sold at Christies, South Kensington, London The Dr. Eugene and Rose Antelis Collection of Important French Carriage Clocks 26th November 1998 (lot 106).