France, Pillars variant hour repeating carriage clock, the glazed, gilt brass case with turned feet, fluted columns, and turned finials, the base and frieze with gilt, blind fret, and the case top with carrying handle matching the columns, gilt dial mask

France, Pillars variant hour repeating carriage clock, the glazed, gilt brass case with turned feet, fluted columns, and turned finials, the base and frieze with gilt, blind fret, and the case top with carrying handle matching the columns, gilt dial mask enframing the Arabic numeral white enamel dial, with subsidiary enamel alarm dial below 6:00, blued steel spade hands, 8 day, three train movement with lever platform, striking the hour and half hour in passing, and repeating the last hour on demand, and with H.B. mark within an upturned crescent case with tarnish and minor spotting, a few small spots of verdigris, gilding polished off, blind fret with wear to gilding, dial mask dirty, hands with specks of oxide, alarm dial with hairlines, movement oily, dirty, some steel with minor oxide and rust, alarm set arbor with modifications, alarm release cam absent from set arbor, but is present between the front plate and release lever, alarm runs when wound, but cannot be set, running, striking, and repeating correctly