Thomas Savage, London. A silver pair cased pocket watch, the silver champleve dial having black R

Thomas Savage, London. A silver pair cased pocket watch, the silver champleve dial having black Roman numerals, Arabic outer numerals, blued steel 'beetle and poker' hands and signed 'Savage, London', the chain fusee movement having Egyptian pillars, a verge escapement with a plain three arm steel balance, a pierced and engraved backcock, a silvered regulation dial and signed 'Thos. Savage, London, 870', having plain silver inner and outer cases, diameter 60mm. * Although there are a number of makers recorded with this name, the maker of this watch is quite probably the Thomas Savage who was the son of Thomas Savage Snr of Exeter and apprenticed in 1659 to Joseph Quash of London. Having returned to Exeter, where he was jailed for having Jacobite sympathies, he moved back to London to work at East Smithfield, becoming insolvent in 1721.