SOLD FOR £55
An Edwardian oak cased mantel clock decorated marquetry shell patterae and having Arabic enamelled dial, set 8 day movement, chiming gong 10.25"h x 8"w x 5.25"d
SOLD FOR £200
An Edwardian walnut mantel clock of architectural form having foliate engraved Roman silvered dial with chime/silent subsidiary dial, set 8 day movement chiming gongs, 17"h x 11"w
SOLD FOR £1300
John Smith, Midland clock works, Derby. A mid 19th Century oak tower clock, having a Roman silvered dial with outer minute track, set triple fusee movement striking 4 bells and chiming gong, the case in the Gothic taste with glazed door, raised on a blind fret cut pedestal, plinth base 77.5"h x 20.5"w x 13"d.
John Smith of Derby set up business in 1856 following an apprenticeship with the celebrated Whitehurst family, the descendants of John Whitehurst 1713-88 of the Lunar Society fame. John Smith's business prospered as Northern Industrial towns flourished and many consequential buildings were fitted with Smiths clocks. The most celebrated example of their work is the great chiming clock in St Paul's Cathedral.
SOLD FOR £2800
Edward Funnell, Brighton. A Victorian ebonised bracket clock in the 17th Century style, ormolu mounted, having an arched topped silvered Roman dial set chime and rise and fall dials, set quarter repeating triple fusee movement, striking 8 bells and chiming gong, the case of architectural form, painted with flowers and insects, mounted Corinthian columns on scroll feet and plinth bracket base 16"h x 15.5"w x 9.5" ILLUSTRATED
SOLD FOR £1400
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 FOR £150
A mid 17th Century style walnut bracket clock, the case with bell top and plinth base with bun feet, set Roman and Arabic silvered chapter ring, mask spandrels, with 8 day quarter repeating movement chiming on 4 gongs 13"h x 9"w x 7.5"w
SOLD FOR £280
Elliott London, a 17th Century style walnut bracket clock having a broken arch brass dial, silvered Arabic and Roman chapter ring, flanked by mask spandrels, the quarter repeating 8 day lever movement with Westminster and Whittington chimes on 8 gongs, movement no. 27344, retailed by Mappin & Webb Ltd. 14.5" x 10"h x 6.5"d
SOLD FOR £280
A late 19th Century mahogany bracket clock, cut brass inlaid, the case with pagoda top and polished brass column supports, raised on bun feet having a Roman enamelled dial with 8 day movement, chiming gong and signed Japy Freres 14.5"h x 10.25" x 5"
SOLD FOR £90
An Edwardian bronze dinner gong raised on a turned walnut stand with bobbin turned decoration 27"