An unusual oval timepiece.

The oval gilt-metal frame with folding strut to the rear; finely engraved border with a flower and leaf decoration; the engraved silvered dial with a similar pattern with Roman numerals and blued steel spade hands; the eight-day duration going barrel movement with lever escapement signed on the backplate Thos. Cole London.

Overall height 6 ¾ inches (17.2cms). Dial measures 6 ½ inches across and 4 ¾ inches high.

The engraved ‘one-piece’ glazed case with shuttered rear door; the white enamel dial with Roman numerals signed for DENT A PARIS with blued steel trefoil hands; the two train spring barrel movement sounding the hours and half hours on a bell, with repeat button and having Garnier’s patent chaff cutter escapement.

Case height: 5 inches (10.75cms).

A good French nineteenth century picture clock depicting a river scene.

The two train spring barrel movement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong with anchor escapement and silk thread suspension. Giteau’s original trade label inside quotes in French: ‘One finds in this shop a very beautiful choice of picture clocks painted by distinguished artists of the capital*, for which the clock mechanism is made with utmost care in-house…….’
*Paris

Frame size: 25inches x 21 inches (63.5 x 53.5cms).

£3,250

A very good mid-nineenth century wall thermometer.

The bow-fronted Rosewood case with signed silvered register plate showing Fahrenheit and Reaumur scales, original mercury tube with adjustable marker and ivory handled knob.

Length 18 inches (46cms) overall.

Note:
Chadburn Brothers are recorded at Albion Works, 26 Nursery Street, Sheffield and 71 Lord Street, Liverpool between 1837-c1875. Notable makers of instruments; Instrument makers to Prince Albert. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851. An original trade label showing a similar item is exhibited in the Science Museum.

A Fine George III period mahogany bracket clock.

The well patinated mahogany bell top and brass mounted case, brass ogee feet, finials and folding handle above. The engraved silvered dial with Roman numerals, pierced blued steel hands with date aperture and signed in the centre Henry Jenkins LONDON and above two subsidiary dials for rise and fall and silent/strike adjustment. The two train fusee movement with verge escapement sounding the hours on a bell, with repeat cord, having a profusely engraved backplate depicting a leaf and scroll design, very typical of the period.

The whole in excellent condition throughout.

Case height: 20 inches (50cms).

A top quality English timepiece carriage clock.

The finely chased and engraved case, scroll folding handle, pilasters to the corners with scroll and foliate engraved side panels and top, solid rear door, standing on bun feet. The signed silvered engine-turned dial with Roman numerals and delicate blued steel hands set within a conforming engraved gilt mask; the chain fuseé eight-day duration movement with monometallic balance and lever escapement.

Case height: 4 ½ inches (11.5cms).

The attractive gilt-brass case with four fluted and turned pillars with folding handle mounted with finely painted ivory side panels depicting ladies in classical dress within an engraved gilt surround; the ivory dial having a pierced gilt surround with Arabic numerals and blued steel hands; the two train going barrel movement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong with lever platform escapement.
Case height 5 inches (12.5cms).

An exceptional early silvered dial mahogany drop-dial wall clock

A beautiful and very lightly restored mahogany drop dial clock. The case with a nicely shaped cast brass bezel has a drop trunk with integral ears at the side culminating after a strong moulding with a chisel bottom with full length opening door. There are doors on the side of the case for attaching the pendulum and viewing the movement.
The silvered dial which has age related stress fractures has inside Roman numerals and outside Arabic numerals and is signed by the maker Leroux, Charing Cross in flowing script.
The nicely fretted out blued steel hands have arrow pointers and the minute hand is counter balanced. The eight-day gut fusee movement has tapered and footed plates and four nicely knopped pillars. The pendulum has a large and heavy brass bob and a well shaped and chamfered brass pendulum rod.

Length: 25″ (64 cms.)

The maker John Leroux is noted as a member of the Clockmakers’ Company from 1744 and worked from Charing Cross, London. He made a number of watches and is probably better known for his watch work than his clock work. Some pieces by him were in the Stern Collection and a bracket clock by him is illustrated in Cecinsky & Webster page 317, figure 357.