Posts Tagged ‘Clocks’
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
As happens today, Royal patronage helped the french clock makers 19th century clock-makers. On November last, 1660, Evelyn recorded in his Diary: ‘I went up with some of my Relations to Court, to she we the ithaca clock face m his Majsties cabinet and closet of rarities . . . Here I [...]
Tags: 19th century, alarm clock, ANOTHER, banjo clock, CARAT, Clocks, Edwardian, GOLD, GRAND, LACQUERED, longcase, longcase clock, POCKET, silver watch, WATCHES, WATCHMAKERS
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Illustrations left and below are of a rare late sixteenth-century Gothic-style iron clock, of early German or Italian origin. Finely-engraved front plate, in mediaeval Italian style, carries a coat of arms, so far unidentified. Eyes in the french black square clock mask at the antique movado pocket watch gold top rock [...]
Tags: alarm clock, ANTIQUE, banjo clock, Barrauds, carriage clock, case clocks, clock face, clock hands, clockmaker, Clocks, electric clocks, GEORGE, GEORGE III, George Stockwell, LADIES, longcase, mechanism, Movado, PATEK, POCKET, pocket watch, PORCELAIN, rococo, ROSEWOOD, RUBY, SEVENTEEN, SKELETON, Southampton, turret clock, VICTORIAN, WATCHMAKERS, wooden case, wrist watch
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
A red marble Mantel Clock, circa 1900, A mahogany chiming Mantel Clock, ivory inlaid Bracket Clock
A red marble Mantel Clock, circa 1900, the drum movement stamped Maples Of Co., with bell striking, the dial painted with floral garlands, in a plain
rectangular case with moulded pediment, 23cm.; 9in., with key, pendulum and plinth.
An oak-cased Mantel Clock, [...]
Tags: backplate, bracket clock, bun, bun feet, Clocks, coromandel, decoration, Edwardian, eight bells, festoons, finial, foliate, gothic style, inlaid, IVORY, Launceston, lever escapement, london, mantel clock, MARBLE, minor cracks, mouldings, movement, pediment, pendulum, plinth, pointed arch, rectangular case, shield shape, style case, top case, wearmouth
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
CLOCKS: chiming Mantel Clock, circa 1900, American Mantel Clock, circa 1880, German oak Mantel Clock
A German carved chiming Mantel Clock, circa 1900, the Lenzkirch movement striking on two gongs, the case with carved side columns, with broken pediment and
leaf mantling, 33cm.; 13in., with two keys and pendulum.
A French rosewood and inlay Portico Clock, circa 1850, [...]
Tags: American, american walnut, barley, base, BRASS, c amp, camel, CHIMING, Clocks, English, FRENCH, fruitwood, german oak, glass, glass dome, gong, Lenzkirch, MAHOGANY, MANTEL, mantel clock, MARBLE, MINIATURE, Mote, movement, o clock, oak mantel, panel, pediment, pendulum, plinth, PORCELAIN, Portico, rectangular base, rectangular case, ROSEWOOD, side columns, STRIKING, top case, wooden case
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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 [...]
Tags: baluster, Bartholomew Flaget, bracket, brass bezel, brass lantern, CENTURY, chapter, Clocks, damage, flaget, framework, FRENCH, french movement, French Wall, FUSEE, GERMAN, glass, gong, Hands, LANTERN, lantern clock, lever escapement, MAHOGANY, MANTEL, mantel clock, Mappin, Newbury, pedestals, pendulum, plinth, rectangular base, scroll, side columns, SKELETON, skeleton clock, spandrels, train movement, twin tower, VICTORIAN, victorian brass, Vienna Wall, Wall Clock, weight, winder, WOOD WALL, wooden case
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
CARRIAGE CLOCKS: silver-cased Desk Clock, French silver and tortoiseshell Mantel Timepiece, hallmarked London, Carriage Clock with Alarm
A Duverdry & Bloquel Carriage
Timepiece, with white enamelled dial
and cylinder escapement, in gilt-brass
case with scroll handle, 14.5cm.; 53Ain., in
carrying case.
A Carriage Timepiece, with white
enamelled dial and cylinder escapement,
in gilt-brass obis case, 14.5cm.
A champleve enamel Carriage
Timepiece, with gilt matted and [...]
Tags: ALARM, alarm clock, ALARUM, arabic numeral, arabic numerals, Birmingham, Bloquel, bracket, bracket clock, brass case, bulle, CARRIAGE, carriage clock, carriage clocks, carrying case, CASED, clock, Clocks, Cockspur, CYLIN, CYLINDER, cylinder escapement, Dent, desk clock, Duverdry, enamel decoration, escapement, Examined, glass, glass panel, LEVER, lever escapement, MANTEL, mantel clock, METAL, MINIATURE, OVAL, pearl, presentation, rectangular case, REPEATING, serpentine, SILVER, TIMEPIECE, tortoiseshell, Webb
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
ANTIQUE CARRIAGE CLOCKS
A Carriage Timepiece, the gilt dial with cream enamel chapter ring, Arabic numerals and paste set surround, cylinder escapement and in gilt-brass case decorated with champleve
enamel friezes and with shaped handle, slight chipping to front glass panel, 15cm.
A Carriage Timepiece, the white enamelled dial inscribed Emanuel, Southampton, lever escapement, in gilt-brass obis [...]
Tags: A Henry Jacot, amp, ANTIQUE, antique carriage clocks, Arabic, arabic numeral, arabic numerals, backplate, Bond Street, BRASS, brass case, CARRIAGE, carriage clock, CHAMPLEVE, chapter, clock, Clocks, Corinthian, corniche, cylinder escapement, decoration, emanuel, friezes, gilt dial, glass panel, gong, jacot, lever escapement, london, mechanism, MINIATURE, PASTE, PEARL INLAID, pendulum, pendulum aperture, piece case, pillars, regent st, ROSEWOOD, Silversmiths, Southampton, TIMEPIECE, WHITE
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
ANTIQUE LONGCASE CLOCKS: German oak Longcase Clock, walnut chiming Longcase Clock, fruitwood Longcase Clock
A German oak Longcase Clock, circa, with W silvered dial and triple-train movement with gong striking, the case plain and with three glazed door panels, with pendulum and three
weights
An oak Longcase Clock, circa, the dial with enamel Arabic numerals in a square [...]
Tags: ALARM, ANTIQUE, antique longcase clocks, arabic numerals, BLACK, BRASS, brass dial, CASED, Charles Cooper, clock, clock case, Clocks, Comptoise, day bell, door, EBONISED, Edward Richards, german oak, GILT, gilt dial, godalming, gong, hour bell, Jonathan Came, LEVER, levers, longcase, longcase clock, MAHOGANY, mask, north shields, OAK, oak case, pendulum, plinth, putto, QUARTER, Shields, SILVER, SMALL, square dial, stedman, STRIKING, swan neck, train movement, waist, WALNUT, William, winder
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
ANTIQUE ENGLISH CLOCKS: mahogany Mantel Clock, mahogany Bracket Clock, walnut Mantel Clock, ebonised Bracket Timepiece
A late Victorian mahogany
chiming Mantel Clock, the arched dial
with three subsidiary dials and signed
William Edmead, London, the substantial
movement chiming on eight bells and
striking on a gong, in a plain case with
caddy top, canted corners and resting on
moulded bracket feet
A late Victorian [...]
Tags: 19th century, ANTIQUE, backplate, ball feet, Barraud, Barrauds, bell, Bloquel, bracket, bracket clock, BRONZE, CENTURY, chapter, circa, circular plates, claw, clock, Clocks, cornhill, cylindrical case, EBONISED, eight bells, engine, English, Exchange, FRENCH, FUSEE, GOOD, henry ellis, homing pigeon, inlaid, james murray, John Scott, Lenzkirch, MAHOGANY, mantel clock, pendulum, pineapple finial, royal exchange, side columns, spandrels, STRIKING, subsidiary, surmount, TIMEPIECE, train movement, Turners, UNUSUAL, VICTORIAN, victorian mahogany, WALNUT, WHITE, William, William Edmead, winder, Wynn
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
ANTIQUE WALL CLOCKS
A rosewood and mother-of-pearl
inlaid drop-dial Wall Clock, with a ll
white painted dial, the single fusee
movement in a pegged case with inlaid
dial surround and trunk with leaf carved
shoulders, with pendulum
A mahogany Vienna Wall Clock,
with a /m. cream stepped dial and
gong-striking movement, the case with
fluted and baluster side columns and
carved mantling
A mahogany Wall Clock, with [...]
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