John Drew, Londini Fecit, a late 17th Century black lacquer and chinoiserie longcase clock: the eight-day duration, five-pillar movement striking the hour on a bell with an outside countwheel, the eleven-inch square brass dial having a silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals, Arabic five-minute numerals and with 'meeting-arrowhead' half-hour markings, the matted centre having ringed winding holes and the date aperture unusually set below XII o'clock, with applied cast-brass gilded cherub-head and foliate scroll spandrels to the four-corners and engraved to the outer edge of the dial plate with tulip and foliate engraving, inscribed to the base of the dial below the chapter ring at VI o'clock John Drew Londini Fecit, the black lacquer case decorated with oriental figures within a garden landscape with a pagoda, further decoration heightened in gilt, the waist panel door with an oval bullseye glass lenticle, height 200cm. * Biography. John Drew was apprenticed to the eminent clockmaker Joseph Knibb of London in September 1676 and was freed in September 1684 when his address is recorded as Johnson Court in Fleet Street. He was appointed to the position of Beadle in the Clockmakers' Company in April 1712 with a duty to keep order during meetings. The position of beadle was often given to members in poor health or in some financial difficulty being a paid position. John Drew received charitable payments from the Clockmakers' Company from January 1713 until he died in the autumn of that year, just two years after Joseph Knibb.Ref. Brian Loomes Clocks Magazine. Pub. 2013.* Note Exhibited Treasures from West Country Collections, 1967, Bristol Museum No 98.
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Haley, Wigmore St., London, a small ebonised and brass inlaid mantel clock: the eight-day duration, double-fusee, five-pillar movement striking the hours on a bell with pull repeat, the shaped backplate engraved with the maker's name Haley, London and with border engraving repeated to the pendulum bob, the front plate stamped Holmden, London 206 for the movement maker John George Holmden, the five-inch convex white enamelled dial having black Roman hour numerals and signed Haley, Wigmore St., London and with gilded brass spade hands, the small ebonised case having a shaped top and surmounted by a pediment with a cast-brass finial on a dentil block, with brass inlaid decoration, brass frets to the sides, cast handles and standing on ball feet, height 39cm inc. finial. * Biography. Charles Haley was a renowned clock, chronometer and regulator maker recorded at 7, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, London having been apprenticed in 1762 and working alongside the chronometer maker Brockbank. He obtained his freedom from the Clockmakers' Company in 1781. In 1793 he was appointed to the select committee of the House of Commons reporting on the chronometers of Thomas Mudge. In circa 1832 the business was taken over by the maker and retailer James Grohé and again some thirty years later by the chronometer makers John Pennington and Herman Typke*Note John Holmden was a fine maker being free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1788 and working until circa 1844. He supplied movements to a number of well-known London clockmakers including the illustrious Benjamin Louis Vulliamy for whom Holmden, also a fine chronometer maker, was the main maker,
A French marble and bronze mantel clock , late 19th century, the circular enamel dial set with Roman numerals and inscribed 'Mottu Freres Paris', the case surmounted by a putto riding a mountain goat, with scrolling grape and vine decoration, on a shaped base with bun feet, dial 9cm diameter 48cm high Provenance: Upper Swell Farm, Gloucestershire.
A French clock garniture , late19th century, the drum head movement with an enamelled dial, signed by the retailer, 'A la Renaissance, Le Havre', on a gilt metal mounted columned base, together with a pair of three light candelabra, 20cm wide 35cm high 12cm deep (3) Provenance: Upper Swell Farm, Gloucestershire.
A Junghans walnut cased musical mantel clock, late 19th century, the central dial with off-white chapter ring with Arabic numeral hour markers in black and a textured brass centre, the body surmounted with a central anthemion motif within a scrolling pierced framework over an ogee moulded cornice, over an egg and dart moulded frieze flanked by fluted columns with applied gilt metal foliate spandrels to the upper corners and an applied gilt metal lyre below, on bun feet, the clock movement above the music box mechanism and complete with an original Junghans cardboard box contaning a further four cylinders, 38cm high
Five pocket aneroid barometers, Lennie, optician, Edinburgh, double-sided, with curved thermometer and compass, Mullard & Son, Oxford Street, with curved thermometer and compass in lid of leather case, Geo Edward & Sons Glasgow & London, leather case (small), Newton & Co, London. No.1322, and a clock/barometer by Richard Freres, Paris (5)
A brass skeleton clock, late 19th century, by William Evans of Birmingham, in the form of a Gothic cathedral, the silvered dial set with Roman numerals, the case bearing a shield-shaped cartouche inscribed 'Wm Evans 57 Soho Rd Birmingham', on a stepped plinth and under a glass dome, 38cm high
A George III mahogany cased bracket clock, by W Bull, Stratford, the eight-day movement striking on a bell with strike/silent subsidiary dial to the arched brass dial and silvered chapter ring, the case with carrying handle and on brass bracket feet, 29cm wide 20cm deep 50cm high Provenance: Upper Swell Farm, Gloucestershire.
A marquetry and walnut longcase clock, c.1700, by Christopher Gould, London, the 11in square dial with an applied chapter ring and cherub spandrels and signed 'Christopher Gould, Londini Fecit', enclosing an eight-day striking movement, the hood with spiral columns, over a floral and bird marquetry trunk, the door with a lenticle, on bun feet, 39cm wide 22cm deep 168cm high
A French marble and ormolu eight-day mantel clock , 19th century, the enamel dial set with Arabic numerals and inscribed 'Maniere Paris', the movement striking on a bell, the case surmounted by an urn, above profusely scrolling floral and foliate motifs and mask pilasters, the shaped base set with a relief cast frieze and raised on bun feet, dial 10.5cm diameter 44cm high Provenance: Upper Swell Farm, Gloucestershire.
HOROLOGY: 1- Derham, William: The Artificial Clock-Maker. A Treatise of Watch and Clock-work... To which is added a supplement. Printed for J Knapton, 1700. 2nd. Edn. enlarged.PP:(xvi), 119, (I)b; (ii)supplement title, 28, (ii)publishers catalogue; + 7 folding plates. Full panelled calf. Collated; 2- Gould, R. T: The Marine Chronometer. Potter, 1923. Original cloth gilt. Little rubbed. (2)
HOROLOGY: 1- Hatton, Thomas: An introduction to the mechanical part of clock and watch work in two parts. for T. Longman, 1773, 1st. Edn. two parts in one volume; PP: (ii)Half-Title, xvi, 400, + 18 folding plates. Later half leather; name to half-title, title and first page of dedication; 2- Cumming, Alexander: The elements of clock and watch-work, adapted to practice in two short essays. for the Author, 1766. Lacking title-page ( supplied in facsimile ); PP: 192, (xiii), (I)b, Plus 16 folding plates. Later half leather; occasional foxing. (2)
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