Thomas Tampon, 1638-1713, one of England’s greatest horologists. Portrait from a mezzotint produced in 1697 after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. (Right) Tampon’s earliest-known key-wind 8-day long case clock, dial of which is seen below. Formerly in the fusee wall clock bravingtons Wethersfield and Idem collections, today in the bronze french clock with enamel [...]

SKELETON AND LANTERN CLOCKS: A Vienna Wall Clock, Skeleton Clock, A brass Lantern Clock, 20th Century
An electric Mantel Clock, modern, the movement with silvered chapter ring, on fluted column supports, the rectangular base containing the batteries, with perspex dome, 41cm.
An assembled brass Lantern Clock, with a 4in. arched-top foliate engraved dial, now with a French [...]

An ebonised Bracket Clock, A rosewood Mantel Clock, A burrwood Bracket Clock
A silver and enamel cased
Mantel Clock, London, 1903, the front
painted with foliate clusters on a white
ground, the case with chamfered
corners, ball finial and side handles.
Carrier: A silver-cased Travelling
Clock, import marked for London, 1927,
sponsor’s mark of J. Cartier, the rounded
rectangular case with engine-turned
decoration, the dial [...]

WALNUT BRACKET CLOCK, SCOTTISH EBONISED BRACKET CLOCK, QUARTER-STRIKING SKELETON CLOCK
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK with a
chipped 8-inch painted dial and pierced gilt hands, the
movement with anchor escapement and numbered
pendulum adjustment, the backplate signed Rivers &
Son Cornhill London and with engraved borders, in a
moulded broken-arch case with a panelled top and
brass scale frets at the [...]