A GEORGE III FORGED IRON, STEEL AND BRASS WEIGHT-DRIVEN SPIT ROASTING JACKANONYMO, PROBABLY CENTRAL ENGLAND, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURYThe two wheel train with concealed winding clicks to the greatwheel arbor beneath ring-turned second wheel arbor driving a vertical worm gear for the four-arm fly decorated with crescent-shaped finials, the frame with elaborate C-scroll cast brass frontplate incorporating stylised hogs mask motif applied with the worm gear lower potance behind, fixed via two ogee-moulded nuts to the top and lower bars riveted to balter outline vertical bar and pair of hoops terminated with drilled pads for wall mounting at the rear; with original crank winder.32cm (12.5ins) high, 26.5cm (10.5ins) wide, 37cm (14.5ins) deep.Related jacks to the current lot are discsed in Gentle, Rupert and Feild, Belinda DOMESTIC METALWORK 1640-1820 pages 247-49.