An ebonised wall timepiece.
The convex dial with well patinated cream ground; Roman numerals and blued steel hands, signed Geo Harley Shrewsbury. The trunk with canted corners, panelled door and curved bottom; the weight driven movement with anchor escapement driven by a lead weight with integral brass pulley.

Height: 37 ½ inches (95cms).

A good porcelain panelled carriage clock in a ‘bambu’ case.
The gilt-brass ‘bambu’ case mounted with four porcelain panels depicting finely painted birds and flowers with gilt foliage and small vignettes of lakeside scenes all on a pale blue ground. The two train spring barrel movement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong, with repeat, signed on the frontplate J.S and numbered on the rear 9576, having a silvered platform lever escapement signed on the underside J. SOLDANO.
With original numbered travelling case and key.

Case height: 5 ¾ inches (14.5cms).

See ‘A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks’ by Joseph Fanelli, page 46 illustration 17 for a similar example by J.SOLDANO.

A good French portico table regulator

The top quality mahogany case with gilt-brass tapered columns and capitols with engine-turned decoration. The 5 ¼ inch dial with finely engine-turned centre, signed on the cartouche GONNET ELEVE DE ROBIN, recessed seconds chapter at X11, inset with an enamel chapter ring with Roman numerals and calendar numbered in Arabic numerals 1 to 31, surrounded by an engine-turned and engraved gilt bezel. The two train spring barrel movement with outside countwheel sounding the hours and half hours on a bell with PIN-WHEEL escapement and elaborate grid-iron pendulum. The movement protected by a cylindrical dust cover.

Case height: 19 ½ inches (49.5cms).

Note: The main springs dated 1813.

A small two-day duration marine chronometer.

The 3 3/8 inch silvered dial with Roman numerals and outside Arabic seconds at five minute intervals, up/down indicator and seconds chapter above V1 with blued steel hands signed Parkinson & Frodsham Change Alley London 2946. The movement , contained within a brass dust cover, with spotted plates signed and numbered on the backplate with chain fusee and maintaining power with Earnshaw’s spring detent escapement with cut bimetallic balance and polished steel helical balance spring. The mahogany three tier box with brass drop handles with ivory plaque to the front numbered 2946. With tipsy winding key.

Box dimensions: 5 ½ inches x 5 ½ inches x 6 inches high

A fine chinoiserie ‘Act of Parliament Clock’ in excellent original condition, the eight-day duration movement having tapered plates with five-wheel train and inside counterbalance for the hands. The dial diameter is 30 inches and I would date it c1765.

Alexander Cumming, FRS, was born in Edinburgh c1732 and died at Pentonville in 1814; a celebrated clockmaker and chronometer maker, who first suggested curved teeth for the cylinder escape wheel; he published in 1766 The Element of Clock and Watch Work; elected Hon. Freeman of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1781; he carried on business at the Dial and Three Crowns in New Bond Street, 1777; resided at 12 Clifford Street until 1794, then he kept a shop in Fleet Street, which after his death was occupied by his nephew, John Grant; among the fine clocks at Buckingham Palace is one made by Alexander Cumming, made for George 111, which registers the height of the barometer every day throughout the year.