A Fine Victorian patinated bronze mantel timepiece with platform lever escapement, James McCabe, London, circa 1850 The single chain fusee four column-turned pillar movement with Harrison’s maintaining power and McCabe’s generous underslung English lever platform escapement regulated by sprung three-arm monometallic balance with cabochon endstone and pivoted regulation arm reading against a curved silvered scale to the rear, the backplate signed James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London, 1848, the six inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial with repeat signature and blued steel hands incorporating a pierced heart to the tip of the hour, the patinated bronze chamfer-top case with hipped superstructure over cavetto cornice and hinged cast brass bevel-glazed bezel to front, the rear with rectangular glazed door, in moulded skirt base with disc feet, 30.5cm (12ins) high. James McCabe senior is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as a 'very fine maker' who worked from Cheapside and Royal Exchange, London 1778-1811. The business was continued under his name by his sons including James junior who was apprenticed to Reid and Auld in Edinburgh, and Robert Jeremy who ran the business up until its closure in 1883.