Posts Tagged ‘longcase clock’
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 [...]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Values of Antique Clocks
‘Tempus rerum imperator’ is the clockmakers died from mercury motto contained with the very large antique sideboard clock with a glass dome Grant of Arms to the Worshipful Company of Clock-makers in 1671, and undeniably Time is the antique german tambour clock with legs ruler of all things. Xpovos [...]
Tags: ALARM, alarm clock, ALARUM, ANTIQUE, bracket clock, case clocks, EBONISED, gold bracelet, longcase, longcase clock, MARBLE, POCKET, WALNUT, WATCHES, WATCHMAKERS
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
ANTIQUE OAK AND MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCKS
A Longcase Clock Movement, circa 1740, with a Win. square brass dial, cast putto and crown spandrels, silvered chapter ring, matted centre signed Jno.
Inkpen, Horsham, the 30-hour movement rack striking on a bell, lacking, in a posted frame, with anchor escapement, with pendulum.
An oak Longcase Clock, with a 12in. arched [...]
Tags: antique oak, aperture, AUTOMATON, bell, Birmingham, bracket, BRASS, brass dial, broken arch, Burton Street, chamfered corners, clock, clock movement, Corinthian, day bell, Dent, dentils, escapement, frame, fruitwood, glass panel, hood, Horsham, inkpen, inlaid, Jno, knowle, longcase, longcase clock, MAHOGANY, moon, movement, OAK, pediment, pendulum, plinth, side columns, spandrels, STEEL, swan neck, waist, weight
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
A marquetry Longcase Clock, An oak Longcase Clock, Edwardian stained oak chiming Longcase Clock
An oak Longcase Clock, circa
1820, the Win. painted dial signed
T. Humphrey, Guildford, the 30-hour
movement striking on a bell, the hood
with moulded pediment and plain
columns, with plain trunk and plinth
base, 188cm.; 74in. high, with weight and
pendulum.
An oak and mahogany Longcase Clock, circa 1810, [...]
Tags: aperture, ball finials, baluster, brass dial, BRASS-MOUNTED, bravington, CHIMING, clock, Edwardian, foliate, GEORGE, guildford, Hirksman, hour, james butler, longcase, longcase clock, MAHOGANY, MARQUETRY, mechanism, OVAL, pendulum, replacement, side columns, SILVER, spandrels, subsidiary, swan neck, tayler, WALNUT, weight, Westminster, whittington, WINDING
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
MAHOGANY MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, OAK LONGCASE CLOCK, 18TH CENTURY OAK LONGCASE CLOCK
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY MUSICAL LONGCASE CLOCK, the 12-inch dial with seconds dial, calendar aperture and rococo spandrels, the arch signed John Meredith London between Chime/Not Chime and four tune selector dials, the music including Nu vel vaerfrist til mode, the repeating three train [...]
Tags: A BURR-WALNUT LONGCASE, Anthony Hebert London, AUTOMATON, broken arch, Calendar, CENTURY, Clarke Leadenhall, clock, cock, corinthian columns, fruitwood, GEORGE, GEORGE III, Gray London, Joseph Oxley, longcase clock, MAHOGANY, MARQUETRY, MUSICAL, north country, OAK, pediment, pendulum aperture, pillar, plinth, REPEATING, right angles, rococo, SECONDS, SILVER, street london, STRIKING, swan neck, Thomas Kefford, veneer, Wainwright
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Belgian carved oak Longcase Clock, mahogany Longcase Clock, ‘Adam and Eve’ Longcase Clock, walnut and marquetry Longcase Clock
An oak and mahogany 48-hour
Longcase Clock, the ll square painted
dial indistinctly signed Rollsonf,
Stamford, the hood with scroll pediment
and fluted columns cross-hatched trunk
door and resting on a deep plinth,
with weight and
pendulum
A mahogany Longcase Clock,
with a arched painted dial, with
rolling [...]
Tags: adam and eve, aperture, AUTOMATON, ball finials, baluster, BRASS, brass finials, broken arch, Calendar, clock, day bell, dial, door, EBONISED, FIGURE, foliate, GEORGE III, guernsey, HUNTING, inlaid, john watts, Joseph Quarman, longcase, longcase clock, lunar phase, MAHOGANY, mark jacob, MARQUETRY, OAK, pediment, pendulum, pillars, plinth, QUARTER, rolling moon, Rollsonf, SECONDS, side columns, SILVER, SMALL, spandrels, Stamford, STRIKING, subsidiary, train movement, WALNUT, Watts, weight, winder
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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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Monday, December 28th, 2009
CHAIN FUSEE REPEATING EBONISED BRACKET CLOCK, OAK CHIMING CUCKOO BRACKET CLOCK, ROSEWOOD WALL CLOCK, ОAK AND BRASS WATER CLOCK
A MAHOGANY WHEEL BAROMETER, the
thermometer above a silvered and engraved dial, the case with boxwood stringing, 38in; 96.5cm, with a presentation plaque, c. 1900
А BRASS SKELETON CLOCK with chain
fuses, the silvered dial with roman
numerals, the case pierced [...]
Tags: 19th century, anchor, balance, balance wheel, barometer, bracket, bracket clock, chain, clock, cockspur street, COLD, CUCKOO, EBONISED, EBONIZED, eight bells, fleur de lys, FRENCH, FUSEE, GILT-BRONZE, glass dome, haymarket london, LANTERN, longcase, longcase clock, MAHOGANY, MANTEL, MARBLE, marble base, MARQUETRY, meter dial, plinth, QUARTER, quarter plate, QUARTER-STRIKING, Queen, REPEATING, roman numerals, ROSEWOOD, signature, SKELETON, skeleton clock, SMALL, TIMEPIECE, UNUSUAL, WALL, Wall Clock, WATER, water clock, WHITE, WOOD WALL
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
MAHOGANY WHEEL BAROMETER, ОAK LONGCASE CLOCK, GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY QUARTER CHIMING AND REPEATING LONGCASE CLOCK, BLACK LACQUER LONGCASE CLOCK
A MAHOGANY WHEEL BAROMETER, with a silvered register, the trunk applied with a hygrometer, a thermometer, a mirror and а Level, engraved Warranted Correct, (95cm), early 19th
century.
A MAHOGANY WHEEL BAROMETER, the 8in silvered register hygrometer, thermometer, [...]
Tags: 19th century, Abraham, balerna, barometer, Birmingham, black lacquer, boxwood, BRASS, CASED, CENTURY, chapter, Chester, clock, convex glass, EARLY, escapement, GEORGE III, GOOD, hanover street, hygrometer, hygrometer thermometer, IVORY, L Smith, longcase, longcase clock, MAHOGANY, QUARTER, REPEATING, ROSEWOOD, SECONDS, street london, style, subsidiary, thermometer, WILLIAM IV, yesterday and today
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