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Lot 372
A quantity of ceramic mugs/beakers commemorating the Royal family dating back to the reign of Queen Victoria, other collectable items commemorating the royal family to include a souvenir book of Edward VIII, a compact with image of Edward to the front, an enamel coin depicting Queen Victoria dated 1887 etc, also a quantity of 'The Second Great War a Standard History' magazine.
Lot 166
A George II/III gilt brass verge pocket watch movement with cylinder... A George II/III gilt brass verge pocket watch movement with cylinder escapement Thomas Mudge and William Dutton, mid 18th century The gilt full plate single fusee verge movement with four square baluster pillars pinned through the backplate, cylinder escapement, scroll-pierced stop-iron block and sprung three-arm steel balance with Tompion type regulation, the backplate with fine symmetrical foliate scroll pierced balance cock with diamond endstone and conforming engraved foot flanked by silvered regulation disc within adjacent applied gilt scroll decorated infill opposing signature Tho. Mudge, W. Dutton, London and serial number 953 , with original dust cover engraved with repeat signature and fitted with a convex white enamel Roman numeral with Arabic five minutes to outer track and steel beetle and poker hands, the pillar plate 40mm (1.5ins approx.) diameter. Thomas Mudge is an important maker who is recorced in Baillie, G. H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as born in Plymouth in 1715 and was apprenticed to George Graham gaining his freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1736. He was elevated to Liveryman in 1738 and is thought to have mainly worked with Graham until the latter's death in 1751. Mudge subsequently set-up business alone in Fleet Street and made a watch featuring his newly invented lever escapement for Queen Charlotte in 1757. He was the first to use stones for escapement pallets and impulse pins and published the work Thoughts on the Means of Improving Watches, particularly those for use at sea in 1765. From 1771 he became increasingly involved with the continued development of the marine chronometer a pursuit with pre-occupied him until his death in 1794. William Dutton is recorded in Baillie as also apprenticed to George Graham in 1738 and gained his freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1746. In around 1750 the partnership with Thomas Mudge, was formed and worked from 148 Fleet Street, London, where the business was to remain through successive generations of the Dutton family. William Dutton was elevated to Liveryman in 1766 and alongside Mudge developed the lever escapement for watches in 1771; shortly after which Thomas Mudge retired to Plymouth in order to spend more time to pursue his development of a marine timekeeper. The cylinder escapement was developed in around 1695 by Thomas Tompion and further refined by George Graham in 1726. This new escapement was perhaps the first developed exclusively for watch work and, as well as being a better rate keeper, the cylinder escapement also allowed movements to be made more compact (due to the escapement operating in one plane only). However, being a form of frictional rest escapement, the cylinder escapement was prone to relatively heavy rates of wear hence was less reliable than the verge (until hardened steel escape wheels and ruby cylinders were developed later in the 18th century).
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