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A Queen Anne eight-day longcase
clock movement and dial
William Moore, London, circa 1715
The five finned pillar rack and bell
striking movement with 12 inch square
brass dial with herringbone engraved
calendar aperture, ringed winding holes
subsidiary seconds dial, and oval
signature cartouche Wm. Moore, London
to the matted centre within applied
silvered Roman numeral chapter ring
with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and
Arabic five minutes to outer track, the
angles applied with female mask and
scroll cast spandrels, (with pendulum
but lacking hands and weights).
William Moore is recorded in Baillie, G.H.
Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World
as being apprenticed in 1693, gaining his
Freedom in 1701 and working in London
up to 1719.
£400-600
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A William IV rosewood small bracket
clock
Frodsham and Son, London, circa 1830
The current five pillar twin fusee
movement with half deadbeat
escapement, formerly striking on a bell
mounted on the backplate and stamped
FRODSHAM, GRACECHURCH STREET,
LONDON to centre, fitted to the original
4 inch square single sheet silvered brass
Roman numeral dial signed FRODSHAM
& SON Gracechurch Street, LONDON to
centre and with brass Breguet hands, in
a case with brass carrying handle to the
gadroon carved upstand above cavetto
and ripple carved cornice and brass fillet
inset canted angles to front door, on
plinth base with moulded skirt and disc
turned feet, (movement a well matched
replacement, lacking bell), 28cm (11ins)
high excluding handle.
£200-300
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A Regency brass inlaid mahogany
bracket clock
Unsigned, early 19th century
The five pillar twin fusee bell striking
movement with pendulum holdfast to the
shouldered backplate, the 8 inch circular
cream Roman numeral convex dial with
unusual lozenge pierced blued steel
hands and cast brass glazed bezel, the
break-arch case with brass ring handles
above arched fishscale sound frets to
sides and stylised foliate spray brass
inlay to a shaped panel beneath dial, on
skirt base with ripple moulded band and
disc feet, 40cm (15.75ins) high.
£600-800
DONNINGTON PRIORY
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A George III mahogany weight driven
eight-day precision wall timepiece with
centre seconds
Unsigned, circa 1800
The substantial four pillar movement
with deadbeat escapement, Harrison’s
maintaining power, and 11.5 inch circular
silvered Roman numeral dial within a
cast brass glazed bezel, the teardrop
shaped case with rounded hood above
waisted panel to throat and shaped
flame figured caddy moulded trunk door
with lock to upper rail, with crossbanded
and chevron line decoration to edges to
front and with moulded base, 141cm
(55.5ins) high.
£1,800-2,500
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