A fine mid-eighteenth century bracket clock. The top quality inverted bell-top ebonised case with pierced sound frets to the back and front and glazed to the sides. The brass dial with silvered chapter ring, signed Ellicott, London within a cartouche, with Roman numerals and outside Arabic minutes and matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and calendar dial in the arch, mounted with pierced gilt-metal spandrels and with pierced blued steel hands. The two-train fusee movement with verge escapement and bob pendulum sounding the hours on a bell with pull quarter repeat with six hammers on six further bells. The back plate with leaf and floral engraving.

John Ellicott, an eminent maker, is recorded at 17 Sweeting’s Alley, Cornhill; he was born in 1706 and died in 1772.

This is a fine and well preserved example of John Ellicott’s work in excellent order.

Case height (excluding handle) 16 ½ inches (42 cms).

£13,000

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 small and rare carriage timepiece with Duplex escapement.

The gilt-brass glazed case with solid removable rear door with dust shutters for winding and hand-set; the circular white enamel dial, signed DENT 33 Cockspur St London and numbered 19955, with Roman numerals with seconds chapter belowX11, blued steel hands, set within a finely engine-turned gilt mask. The top quality eight-day duration chain fuseé movement, signed and numbered on the backplate, with gilt platform underslung DUPLEX escapement. With original numbered winding key.

Case height: 4 inches (10cms).

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).

A fine small William and Mary table clock.

The ebony veneered case with well pierced basket top; pierced silk-backed side frets with oval centres; chased carrying handle and four finials of elaborate form. The 7 inch square dial with finely matted centre and ringed winding holes, mock pendulum and calendar apertures and cherub head spandrels. The silvered chapter ring signed John Shaw, Holborne with elaborated fleur-de-lys half hour divisions, Roman numerals and pierced blued steel hands. The substantial five pillar rack striking movement; leaf scroll engraved back plate signed by the maker with brass clicks and elaborate spring; knife-edge verge escapement with bob pendulum and pierced and engraved back cock. The hours sounding on a bell with strike/silent lever; the pull repeat work mounted under the dial sounding the quarters on four bells.

Case height: 13 ½ inches (34cms).

Note: John Shaw was apprenticed in 1672 to Thomas Taylor of Holborn and was free of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1682 and Master in 1712.

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.

A small George 1V mahogany wall timepiece.

The small sized mahogany case with key-hole shaped hood, panelled door and demi-lune base; the 8 inch silvered dial in the Regulator style with outside minute ring and apertures showing hours and seconds on revolving chapter discs, signed Burton Kendal 1827, with blued steel hands. The eight-day duration movement with anchor escapement and wood rod pendulum driven by a lead weight with spoked pulley.

Case height: 4ft 2 ¾ inches (129cms); width: 11 inches (28cms); depth: 5 ¼ inches (13.25cms).

Emanuel Burton Jnr, son of Emanuel, is recorded in Kendal 1790/1828.