A Regency mahogany brass strung single fusee drop dial wall clock, T Atkinson Newcastle. Dial diameter 32 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The movement winds and is currently ticking away. It is a little dirty and perhaps a little dry but does seem to be operating. The case is in unrestored condition. There are some nibbles to the mahogany to the right hand side of the hinge. The brass bezel is original as is the glass. The face is a little dirty and scratched in places but again in generally reasonably good original condition with some minor marks particularly around the winding aperture. The right hand section of brass stringing to the right of the lenticle is missing. There are further nibbles to the case extremities. The bottom door is in very poor condition. There are losses to the woodwork and veneers around the door casing. There is a poor repair to the door and a clumsy butterfly hinge. The sides of the case are in reasonably good condition. There are stress fractures to the rear pine panelling.
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A Queen Anne style mahogany display cabinet, with arched pediment above a glazed door with wooden astragals enclosing shelves, the base with moulded edge and raised on carved cabriole legs terminating in claw and ball feet. Width 78 cm, height 192 cm. CONDITION REPORT: The cabinet is in generally very good order. It is structurally sound. The cornice is in good condition with only very minor corner nibbles. The door is not warped. It closes as it should. There is no dark patch at the top of the door, this must be a reflection or shadow. All glass panels are in good condition with no cracks. The lock is present. We do not have the key. The door is not locked. The cloth fabric inside is a little shadowed and stained n places but serviceable. All side panels are in good order. The cabriole legs are all in good condition also. There is no evidence of any woodworm. The cabinet height is 192 cm. The width is 78 cm and the depth 39 cm.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (170 Corpl: W. Frankish. Protect: Regt. F.F.) extremely fine £1,800-£2,200 --- Walter Frankish was killed at Mafeking on 7 December 1899, by a shell splinter from a 94-pounder. Originally from Accrington, Lancashire, he was an electrical engineer prior to attesting on 18 August 1899 for service with “D” Squadron in Colonel Baden Powell’s Frontier Force (later the Protectorate Regiment F.F.). The following extract is taken from the Mafeking Diary of Edward Ross, Thursday, 7 December 1899: ‘Two large shells this afternoon burst in front of a chemist shop in the Market Square, destroying the whole of the shop and cutting a native all to pieces; parts of him were found lying about the road. Two of B.P.’s staff (Tracey and Wilson) were in the shop at the time, but very luckily escaped being hurt. Some of the pieces of these shells after bursting seemed to travel around corners, one 94-pounder burst in the Market Square. A small piece of it seemed to come around the corner of the street, passed through the door of the Mafeking Hotel bar and into the head of the man standing at the counter, Corporal Frankish of D Squadron P.R. who was killed on the spot. Another native was also killed today, a piece of a 94-pounder literally cutting him in half.’ Sold with copied research and several photographs of his grave and memorial.
A 20th century oak court cupboard, with carved decoration and panel doors, the top with central fixed panel the two flanking doors opening to a single adjustable shelf, a similar cupboard section below and beneath another two door cupboard, the doors with turned handles and decorative hinges, 155cm long, 158cm high, 42cm deep
De Lisle à Paris, a large boulle bracket clock with matching bracket: the eight-day duration movement having vase shaped pillars, a silk-suspension and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell situated within the pediment top with an outside countwheel, the backplate engraved in large flowing script De Lisle à Paris, the cast-brass decorative dial with individual enamel plaques having black Roman numerals and blued steel hands, the waisted boulle case of brown tortoiseshell with engraved brass inlay repeated to the inside door and floor, with ormolu female-head and floral mounts to the corners, nymphs at play to the front and surmounted by child with dove, the front having a glazed panel through which the sunburst pendulum bob is visible, with a matching wall bracket, height 64cm, bracket 23cm.*Notes Jean De Lisle is recorded as working in Paris in the mid-18th century, firstly at Rue du Marché-Neuf where he published 'Méthode sur la construction d'un gnomon pour réguler une pendule de soleil.'*Notes Reference Tardy Dictionairre des Horlogers Francais Paris.
Francis Sinderby, a Regency mahogany pad-top bracket clock: the eight-day duration double-fusee movement striking the hours on a bell with the shaped backplate having both border and central engraving, the pendulum with fine-regulation and engraved to the bob, the round convex eight-inch painted dial having black Roman numerals and signed Frans. Sinderby, London with blued steel serpentine spade hands, the mahogany case having a full opening front door with brass fishscale frets below the dial and a cast-brass bezel, with brass frets to the sides, brass inset to the canted corners and a brass carrying handle to the brass-bound pad-top surmounting the break arch top, height 40cm.*Biography Francis Sinderby is recorded as working in London at the Bull & Mouth in circa 1811, quite possibly being the maker of the same name who moved to Sussex in 1823. He was succeded by his son Francis Hayward Sinderby, apprenticed 1793, who continued at the London address until at least 1840 having been made a member of the Clockmakers' Company in 1820 and is the probable maker of this clock, being succeeded by his widow prior to 1844.
John Murch, Honiton a mahogany longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the twelve-inch square brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, the silvered centre with a subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture and engraved with c-scroll decoration, with cast-brass female-head spandrels to the four corners and decorative blued-steel hands, the oak and mahogany case with crossbanding to the trunk door, tapered columns to the hood, whales tooth cresting, three giltwood ball-and-spire finials, the base with mahogany crossbanding and standing on bracket feet, height 230cm inc. finial.*Biography John Murch was a member of the prominent Honiton clockmaking family and is recorded as working from circa 1754 when he was apprenticed to another well known local maker, Francis Pile, at a premium of £15. He was to later witness Pile's will, dated 22nd of June 1763. His son, also John, became a clockmaker and in 1805 placed an advertisement for an assistant in 'the clock and watch line, or watch line only.' * Notes John Jnr. is also recorded as a silversmith in 1798 and by 1823 he was in partnership with his son William, grandson to John Snr, with premises in the High St. This partnership ended on John's death in 1830 whereupon William continued alone.
William McCulloch, Belfast an unusual moonphase mahogany longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the twelve-inch arched brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, flame half-hour markings, and engraved either side of VI o'clock with the maker's name, Wm. McCullock, Belfast, the arch having an unusual style disc engraved with the phases of the moon depicted by a steel hand, the mahogany case with boxwood stringing to the base, trunk door and hood, the fluted hood pillars with cast brass capitals and surmounted by whales tooth cresting, standing on bracket feet, height 222cm. inc. cresting.* Biography William McCulloch, sometimes spelt McCullough, is recorded working in Belfast from at least 1743 when it is known he subscribed to a book written by John Campbell entitled 'Lives of the Admirals and other eminent British Seamen'.* Notes Reference David A. Bell The Watch and Clockmakers of Northern Ireland Pub. The Author 2020.
A 19th Century carved oak food cupboard:, in the 17th Century taste, with an egg and dart cornice and fluted frieze, the open compartment with turned columns and an enclosed cupboard below, with central door, incised geometric decoration, having stylised leaf decorated stiles, 79cm (2ft 7in) wide, 68cm (2ft 2 1/2in) high.
A collectors 19th Century mahogany and inlaid cabinet:, bordered with boxwood, ebony and chequer strung lines, the top with an ebony and ivory dentil band and similar geometric lozenge frieze, having a fitted interior with an arrangement of twenty small drawers about a central cupboard with pierced fretwork shelves, enclosed by a door with ogee arch pointed lines, further enclosed by a pair of outer doors with geometric chequer lines, the integral stand with a gadrooned edge, on square tapered legs, terminating in spade feet, 50cm (1ft 7 3/4in) wide, 79cm (2ft 7in) high, 32cm (1ft 0 1/2in) deep.
A Victorian ebonised floral marquetry and gilt metal mounted credenza:, of D shaped outline, the frieze decorated with bunches of flowers and foliage and with applied paterae, the central cupboard enclosed by an oval panel door with a bouquet of flowers and foliage within foliate surround, flanked by an enclosed glazed cupboard of bowed outline to either side, between stiles headed with masks and floral foliage, on a shaped plinth base, 186cm (6ft 1 1/4in) long, 113cm (3ft 8 1/2in) high.
Shapland & Petter. A mahogany and inlaid music cabinet:, the shelved superstructure with a moulded dentil breakfront cornice and small central cupboard, enclosed by a domed panel door with stylised flowerhead inlay and chequer surround, the lower part with five small drawers, having hinged fronts enclosed by a pilaster locking stile and open shelves and divisions, on square ogee block feet, 107cm (3ft 6in) wide, 154cm (5ft 0 1/2in) high.
Shapland & Petter. A mahogany and inlaid wall mounted cabinet:, of canted design, having a central open compartment flanked by an enclosed cupboard to either side, crossbanded in satinwood bordered with boxwood and ebony lines, 77cm (2ft 6in) wide, 49.5cm (1ft 7 1/2in) high, stamped S & P B to lock, also a mahogany hanging cabinet, with open shelf above, enclosed by a fielded moulded panel door, 69cm ( 2ft 3in) wide, 59.5cm (1ft 11 1/2in) high.(2)
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