A William III walnut eight-day longcase clock William Grimes, London, circa 1695-1700 The eight-day five finned pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum and outside strike locking detent, the 11.25 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and scroll border engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers, Arabic five minutes to narrow outer track and signed W’m Grimes. Londini fecit to lower edge, with fine pierced blued steel hands and angles applied with winged cherub mask and foliate scroll cast spandrels with scroll engraved infill between, the case with ogee moulded cornice and floral trail pierced fret to frieze above glazed fixed dial surround applied with Solomonic three-quarter columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns applied next to bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with convex throat moulding over 42 inch rectangular door centred with an oval lenticle and veneered with three pairs of book-matched panels within a herringbone banded surround, the sides veneered with twin herringbone bordered panels, the base with stepped ogee top moulding and conforming book-matched panel within further crossbanded surround over bun feet, 204cm (80.25ins) high. Provenance: Private collection, Hampshire (ref. C16); purchased at Sotheby’s, London, 19th December 1991 (lot 167) for £6,800 hammer. William Grimes is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born in Shilton, Leicestershire in 1737 and is thought to have trained under his uncle, Thomas Grimes, before moving to London by 1682 when he was made a Free Brother of the Clockmakers’ Company. William Grimes worked from Hatton Garden, London and amongst his apprentices was John Topping (1691) who subsequently became well known for his complex longcase clocks with astronomical functions. William Grimes is thought to have died in around 1705.
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A pair of Arts & Crafts carved oak panels, circa 1900, possibly stair panels, each rectangular panel carved on both sides and pierced depicting a central tree trunk flanked on each side by two young boys playing amongst the branches of the tree, the top of one panel carved with 'B', each 82.5cm high, 135.5cm wide
A George III oak mahogany and boxwood strung longcase clock, the square hood with a gilt leafy scrollwork and foliate painted frieze, having reeded freestanding pilasters, the shaped trunk door between reeded pilasters, the altered brass dial with Roman numerals and date aperture, the single train movement striking on a bell, 200cm high.
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NO RESERVE Fotografia. Lotto di 4 monografie [1961-2012]. Il lotto comprende: Robert Knoth - Antoinette de Jong. Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012. Cartonato editoriale illustrato. Raghubir Sing. The grand trunk road. A passage trough India. Historical essay by Jean Deloche. New York: Aperture, 1995. Tela editoriale grigia, sovraccoperta illustrata. Ed van der Elsken. Bagara. [1961]. Tela editoriale nera con sovraccoperta illustrata. Gilberto Ferrez. Photography in Brazil. 1840-1900. Translated by Stella de Sá Rego. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Tela editoriale nera, sovraccoperta illustrata.The lot includes: Robert Knoth - Antoinette de Jong. Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012. Publisher's illustrated cardboards. Raghubir Sing. The grand trunk road. A passage trough India. Historical essay by Jean Deloche. New York: Aperture, 1995. Publisher's grey cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Ed van der Elsken. Bagara. [1961]. Publisher's black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket. Gilberto Ferrez. Photography in Brazil. 1840-1900. Translated by Stella de Sá Rego. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Publisher's black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket.
A Regency mahogany longcase clock, the trunk with reeded and canted corners, the full length door with walnut cross banding, the hood with swan neck cornice enclosing a 32cm broken arch painted dial with eight day striking movement, subsidiary calendar and secondary dials by Samuel Nixon, Newcastle
A collection of Royal Worcester 'Kate Greenaway' style figures of children by James Hadley, including a sugar sifter modelled as a young boy, a figure of a girl holding a fan and standing by an urn and a pair of posy holders modelled as a girl and boy standing by 'tree trunk' bowls (4) H 18cm (sifter)
Navy Blue Steamer Trunk - With Lift Out Storage Tray and KeysStickers show that the Trunk travelled on Cunard's White Star Line (R.M.S. Scythia) which operated between 1934 - 1949. It is believed that the Trunk travelled between Toronto, Canada and Southampton, UK - There are hotel envelopes - Hotel St. Louis, Quebec and Toronto newspapers from the day prior to arrival back in Southampton - See pictures
Mahogany longcase clock, W Manlove, London, the arched hood above a glazed door and long trunk door on a panel base, the signed dial with silvered chapter ring and gilt spandrels, strike/silent to the arch, subsidiary seconds and date aperture, twin train movement anchor escapement, 204cm high
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