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ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents. Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents.
Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
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A cased marine chronometer<br />
by Jean-François-Henri Motel,<br />
early 19th century<br />
with a fusee movement, regulator<br />
style signed dial and movement,<br />
helical hair spring with pivoted detent<br />
escapement by Louis Berthoud,<br />
numbered 151<br />
the diameter of the bezel 90mm<br />
the internal box 13cm high,<br />
15cm wide, 14.5cm deep<br />
NOTE<br />
Jean-Francois Henri Motel was the<br />
prized student of the renowned<br />
horologer Louis Berthoud inheriting<br />
his business as official supplier of<br />
chronometers to the French Navy.<br />
$15,000–18,000<br />
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