AN ADMIRALTY PATTERN SHIP'S CLOCK FOR THE ROYAL NAVY BY SMITH ASTRAL, CIRCA 1940

the 8in. painted dial with black spade hands with red seconds, inner hour ring with outer minutes, single winding arbor, slow/fast level by '12', contained in silvered bulkhead case with hinged faceplate -- 10¼in. (26.5cm.) diameter; together with three photographs of the E. P. Hutchinson

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Understood to be from the motor launch E. P. Hutchinson, the first Naval vessel to arrive in Bologne after D-Day.

Condition Report

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