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A George III style quarter chiming bracket clock
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A large George III style brass mounted mahogany quarter chiming bracket clock
Maple & Co. Ltd, London
second half 19th century
The circular painted dial with Roman hours inscribed MAPLE & CO. LTD. / LONDON, with slow/fast adjuster above XII and chime/silent adjuster at III, the three train fusee movement with anchor escapement and locking pendulum, with a pull repeat, striking on five gongs.
height 22in (56cm); width 16in (41cm); depth 9 1/2in (25cm)
A George III oak-cased chiming longcase clock. Joh
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A George III oak-cased chiming longcase clock. John Collings (or Collins), Sodbury, circa 1780. Having a 12-inch broken-arched silvered dial with Roman hours, Arabic minutes and Dutch minute band framing a subsidiary seconds dial, engraved vignettes of waterside buildings, and terrestrial calendar crescent bordered by engraved maker’s name “JOHN COLLINGS Sodbury”, the spandrels with gentlemen involved in country pursuits (loading a shotgun with a ram-rod, holding up a hare, angling, and netting), the arch engraved with an angel musician holding a banner inscribed “Rodney”, the four-pillar movement rack-striking the hours on a single bell and quarter-chiming on a carillon of eight bells via a pin-barrel, the case having a brass eagle surmount over a swan-neck pediment and blind fretwork frieze over Corinthian columns, the trunk with star-inlaid shaped long door between reeded canted corners, on a plain base and plinth, 90″ (229cm) high, sold two weights, pendulum, key and winder. The banner ‘Rodney’ probably refers to the famed naval officer George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, (1718-1792), whose victories during the American War of Independence led to fame in printed and potted commemoratives during this period.
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Oak Lenzkirch Quarter Hour Strike Bracket Clock
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Oak Lenzkirch Quarter Hour Strike Bracket Clock. Brass dial has a 5.5 in. silvered chapter ring with black incised Roman hour numerals and 5 minute numbers outside, has brass filigree spandrels and a square brass door with beveled glass; square brass spring driven movement has quarter hour strike on 2 coiled gongs and a brass covered pendulum bob, signed Lenzkirch. In an oak case with gilt metal mounts at the peak, side columns under corner corbels and musical & filigree mounts below the door; brass presentation plaque reads ÂPresented To Miss Henderson, by the Vicar and Friends in Ilkeston, Christmas 1892. Movement is in running condition, case has an enhanced original finish, missing side mounts and rosettes on the side corbels. 18.25 in. high x 13.5 in. wide x 9 in. deep.
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK, by F. UPJOHN of
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BRACKET CLOCK, by F. UPJOHN of LONDON, with silent and strike action, engraved backplate, single bell, silvered dial and date aperture, with brass carrying handles, and brass feet. 19 inches high.
A George III mahogany-cased bracket clock with aut
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A George III mahogany-cased bracket clock with automaton. Robert Beels, Kings Lynn, circa 1780. Having a 7″ break-arched painted Roman dial inscribed “Rob’t Beels KINGS LYNN”, the spandrels painted with domestic and wild animals, the arch with a rural landscape depicting a woodcutter, with articulated arm, before a village with articulated windmill sails, the wire-driven twin-fusee movement with foliage-engraved backplate, the anchor escapement and pendulum driving the woodcutter’s arm, the windmills sails on a silk thread pulley, the bell with rebated edge for silent option, the caddy-top case with brass carrying handle over moulded door and conforming glazed sides, the latter with circular sound frets, raised on brass ogee bracket feet, 18.5″, (47cm) high excluding handle.
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A George IV mahogany bracket clock case
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A George IV mahogany bracket clock case. Circa 1825, with later dial and movement by Winterhalder & Hoffmeier, circa 1910. Having an 8″ silvered Arabic dial, the two-train movement stamped “W&H Sch 2″, ting-tang quarter-striking on two coiled gongs, the case with berry finial and stepped pediment over fluted frieze, recessed spandrels and convex-glazed spun bezel, the sides with ring handles over fish-scale frets, on stepped moulded plinth and block feet, 20”, (51cm) high.
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A FINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY PULL REPEATER BRACKET CLOCK
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A FINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY PULL REPEATER BRACKET CLOCK by John Taylor of London, with silvered chapter ring and gilt bronze mounts. 34 cm x 58 cm.