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A RARE GIANT GRANDE-SONNERIE
WITH LIMOGES ENAMEL PANELS Date: c1880 |
A RARE GIANT GRANDE-SONNERIE |
A RARE GIANT GRANDE-SONNERIE
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The two colour gilt and silvered case with gadrooned top moulding, plain Corinthian columns standing on two-tier block feet. The top quality side panels featuring a cherub on each side, the en-suite dial with Roman numerals and alarm chapter below V1 with gilt hands. The substantial spring barrel movement sounding on two gongs with large silvered lever platform. Case height: 8 inches (25.5cms). |
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J.C. PENMAN
LONDON Date: c1880 |
A SKELETON CLOCK BY EVANS OF HANSWORTH
Date: c1860 |
A French carriage clock mounted with porcelain panels showing rural scenes.
Date: C1880 |
A very large Victorian bracket clock. The ebonised break-arch case with pierced brass sound frets to the sides and front, canted corners with brass mouldings standing on rococo feet; the brass dial with a matted centre, silvered chapter ring Roman numerals and Arabic seconds at five minute intervals and below three subsidiary dials for day, month (centre) and date, blued steel hands and spandrels. The substantial three-train fuseé movement sounding the quarters on four bells and the hours on a gong,; the well engraved backplate signed J C Penman London. Case height: 34 inches (86cms) excluding finial. |
The scroll frame with single train chain fusee and six-spoked wheels surmounted by a substantial platform lever escapement having a silvered shield dial with Roman numerals and blued steel hands. The whole standing on an ebonised base with free standing presentation plaque dated 1864 covered by a glass shade.
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The gilt-brass case mounted with well executed porcelain panels and dial depicting a farmyard showing figures each side feeding various animals. The two train going barrel movement sounding the hours and half hours on a gong, with repeat and with a platform lever escapement.
Case height: 6 inches (15cms). |
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LEROY & FILS
PARIS Date: c1890 |
B.L.VULLIAMY
Clockmaker to the Queen LONDON No 1904 Date c1851 |
MARGAINE |
A good French grande-sonnerie carriage clock with alarm.
The Anglaise style gilt-brass case, glazed with bevelled glass panels, with silvered reeded columns, dentil mouldings and handle centre and with coppered capitols; the white enamel dial signed LEROY & FILS, PARIS, with decorative chapter, Roman numerals and blued steel hands with an Arabic alarm chapter below V1; the two train spring barrel movement sounding the hours and quarters on two gongs, with repeat button surmounted by a top quality silvered platform lever escapement. The three position lever in the base for Silence, Quarters or Grande-Sonnerie selection. Case height: 6 ½ inches (16 cms). |
A mid-nineteenth century carved mahogany wall timepiece. The dial surround carved with oak leaves and acorns and with silvered sight ring to the 12 ¼ inch silvered dial signed B.L. VULLIAMY, CLOCK MAKER TO THE QUEEN, LONDON AD 1851, with Roman numerals and blued steel hands. The eight-day duration single chain fusee movement with anchor escapement, signed on the back plate VULLIAMY LONDON No. 1904, with typical Vulliamy type with heavy brass bob numbered 1904. |
The gilt-brass case with ringed pillars mounted with porcelain side panels depicting portraits of ladies in period dress, the dial decorated with a floral design on a pale blue background. The timepiece going barrel movement, bearing the mark of Margaine and numbered 12022, with cut bimetallic balance with silvered platform. Case height: 3 ¼ inches (8cms). £3,900 |
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