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Chas. frodsham & Co, a quarter-chiming bracket clock the eight-day duration,
triple-fusee movement, chiming the quarters on eight bells and the hour on a
gong, signed on the backplate ‘Chas Frodsham & Co, Clockmakers to the Queen,
84 Strand, 1658’, repeated to the seven-inch square brass dial, with the raised
silvered chapter ring having black Roman numerals, with cast brass floral spandrels
to the corners and two subsidiary dials for ‘slow/fast’ regulation and ‘chime on
eight bells/chime on four bells’, with a heavy cast bezel of acanthus leaf design,
the walnut case with a stepped mount to the top, canted corners, a serpentine
moulding to the base and standing on cast brass lions paw feet, height: 49cm.
£400 - 600
* For details of Charles Frodsham see lot 641.
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frodsham, london a brass inlaid rosewood bracket clock the eight-day
duration, double fusee, five pillar movement striking the hours on a bell, the
backplate engraved ‘Frodsham, Gracechurch Street, London’, the eight-inch
round convex painted dial with black Roman numerals, brass ‘moon’ hands and
signed ‘Frodsham, London’, the rosewood case with brass inlaid decoration to
the front, lower frieze and base, canted corners, brass fishscale side frets, floral
side handles and brass ball feet, with the chamfer top surmounted by a brass
pineapple finial, height 52cm.
£1000 - 1500
* John Frodsham, born 1781, is recorded as working as a watch, clock and
chronometer maker at 33, Gracechurch Street, London moving there in 1825
having taken over the firm following the death of his father William Frodsham in
1805 and his grandfather, also William, in 1807. He was made a Liveryman of the
Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1830 with the firm becoming Frodsham
& Sons between 1835 and his death in 1849, the sons being Henry John who was
apprenticed to him, and George Edward who was John Frodsham’s successor.
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