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MEMESS
48 Margaret Street Wilmington Square London Date: c1820 |
A GOOD FRENCH GILT-BRASS
PORCELAIN MOUNTED CARRIAGE CLOCK Date: c1880 |
A GOOD FRENCH CHAMPLEVE |
An unusual Regency table clock of small size The mahogany case in the Gothic style surmounted by four finials and a bell tower displaying a ‘dummy bell’. The door with ached aperture showing the silvered dial with Roman numerals, moon phase aperture and calendar subsidiary above V1 and with blued steel spade hands. The two train fusee movement with anchor escapement sounding the hours on a bell, with repeat facility via a cord. Case height: 20 inches (50.8cms). |
The gilt-brass case with ripple mouldings to the top and base mounted with side panels, signed A. COLLOT, depicting attractive ladies in Middle Eastern dress with conforming dial painted with a town scene showing minarets, with Arabic numerals and blued steel hands. The two train going barrel movement with silvered platform lever escapement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong, with repeat. Case height: 6 inches (15 cms). £5,500 |
The enamelled anglaise riches gilt-brass case with side panels and dial mask en-suite, the dial set with a white enamel chapter with Roman numerals and gilt hands. The two train going barrel movement with silvered platform lever escapement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong, with repeat. The backplate signed with an encircled letter ‘B’. Case height: 6 ½ inches (16.5cms). £5,500 |
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JOHN WHITEHURST
DERBY C1815 |
CARY
LONDON C1805 |
ALLIEZ ET BERGUER
Rue d’ Haute Ville 28 A Paris Date: c1860 |
A rare inverted ‘Y’ framed great wheel skeleton clock made for Allsopp, Derby Road, Nottingham.
The mainspring signed JW. Height of movement: 10 1/2 inches (27cms) Note: See John Whitehurst of Derby, by Maxwell Craven, page 199, plate 1X/59 and British Skeleton Clocks by Derek Roberts, page 23, figure1/5 for identical examples. |
A fine Regency period flame mahogany ‘flat to the wall’ bow-fronted stick barometer with moulded cornice and urn-shaped cistern cover. The silvered scales, with adjustable vernier signed Cary, London.
£8,500 William Cary (1759-1825) traded from the Strand in London. He was an optical and mathematical instrument-maker and supplied monthly meteorological observations to the Philosophical Magazine. He was a pupil of Jesse Ramsden and brother of John Cary the cartographer. |
A very rare French grande-sonnerie carriage clock with calendar in an engraved gilt-brass case.
The finely engraved one-piece case with white enamel signed dial with Roman numerals and sweep seconds hand having three subsidiary chapters for Day of the Week, Date of the Month and Alarm with selection lever above X11 for ‘Gde Sonnerie’, ‘Quarts’ and ‘Silence’. The signed two train going barrel movement sounding on two bells, with repeat and with a top quality gilt platform lever escapement. With original travelling box. Case height: 5 ¼ inches (13.5 cms). |
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HENRY MARC
PARIS Date: c1890 |
BARWISE
LONDON Date: c1855 |
BROCKBANKS
London Date: c1820 |
A rare giant four dialled carriage clock. Case height: 9 inches (23cms). See ‘Carriage Clocks their history and development’ by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert, page 445 where similar clock by Henry Marc is mentioned. |
A fine quality English gilt-brass carriage clock in a finely chased and engraved case. The glazed case with white enamel dial signed BARWISE, LONDON with Roman numerals and blued steel hands set within a well engraved mask. The two train fusee movement sounding the hours on a gong and with a gilt lever platform lever escapement.
Case height: 7 ½ inches (19 cms). |
A smart Regency ebonised bracket clock.
The ebonised case of typical form with brass mounts, the white painted dial signed BROCKBANKS, LONDON with Roman numerals and blued steel hands. The two train fusee movement with anchor escapement sounding the hours on a bell. Case height: 16 inches. |
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