Lot 218
R Rolfe, Gloucester Street, Clerkenwell. A mid Victorian oak bracket clock in the Gothic taste, the silvered arch topped Roman dial with subsidiary chime/silent and advance/retard dials, signed and decorated with foliate engraved spandrels. The triple fusee quarter repeating movement striking 8 bells and chiming gong - missing, the case of architectural form with foliate carved door flanked by quadruple cluster column supports on a shaped plinth base 29"h x 20"w x 11"d SOLD £1400

All of the finials are loose & detached and there are some small losses to the case. There is additional packing timber to the tops of two of the cluster columns replacing 2 capitals. Some moulding to the lower case is missing. The movement appears complete but dirty. The movement has been re-bushed - there are no extraneous holes. The gong is missing. There are 2 holes in the back of the case and two cracks to the top. The dial is tarnished and has some loss of silvering.

From Clocks in the Clocks & Scientific Instruments section in our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Wednesday 15th of May 2013