the workings of a grandfather clock, to be more precise, the striking control mechanism, which has gone off to my sister today. The clock face ascribes it to Francis Pile, a well respected clockmaker working in Honiton in the late C18th. However this working is very much a 30 hour handmade 'country' piece, not the classical 8 day mechanism associated with Pile. I would speculate it was either a very early apprenticeship piece or by his father