COllECTORS' iTEMS, wORkS Of ART & ClOCkS

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A chiming oak mantel clock the eight-day duration movement
chiming the quarters on four gongs and the hour on a further
gong, the brass break-arch dial having black Roman numerals,
c-scroll spandrels, blued steel hands and a roundel to the arch
engraved ‘Tempus Fugit’, the oak break-arch case having barleytwist
columns, height 39cm.
£200 - 300
658
D. Bowen, Alfreton, a mahogany cased bulkhead timepiece,
the eight-day duration, chain fusee movement with a platform
lever escapement, the round seven-inch brass dial engraved with
black Roman numerals and maker’s name ‘D. Bowen, Alfreton’,
with blued steel spade hands, the mahogany drum case with a
cast brass bezel, diameter: 22cm.
£400 - 600
* David Bowen is known to have worked in Alfreton, Derbyshire
from before 1846 as both a watch and clockmaker with at least
four longcase clocks recorded by him and a shop regulator. A
gold watch signed D. Bowen, Alfreton is hallmarked for 1864 so
we can assume he was working up to at least this date. In the
1840’s he was in partnership with another clockmaker, Stevenson
(possibly William), although this may well have been alongside
his own business, and it is known he also had premises in Ripley.
* This piece was reputedly made for the present owners
grandfather, Mr Sturgess, a yacht Captain based in Cadland,
near, Fawley and who was a regular competitor at Cowes Week
on the Isle of Wight, in the mid-1800’s, and who it is believed
entertained Royalty on his yacht. Family tradition has it that the
casing of this timepiece was made from a yacht mast captained
by him at Cowes.
659
An Edwardian mahogany
chiming longcase clock the
eight-day duration movement
striking the hours on a gong
and the quarters on a set of
sixteen Gloria gongs set in four
runs of four, the twelve-inch
break-arch dial having a raised,
silvered chapter ring with
Arabic numerals, subsidiary
seconds dial to the centre and
with ‘strike/silent’ and ‘chime/
silent’ subsidiary dials within
the arch, the mahogany case
having a shaped, glazed trunk
door, a shaped raised panel
to the base, canted corners
to the trunk and base with
blind fretwork, the hood with
a swan-neck pediment with
fretwork below and pillars with
brass capitals, standing on
bracket feet, height 226cm.
£1000 - 1500
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