Wright Marshall Ltd
Lot 2036
A fine early 19th Century mahogany mantle clock
With a 15.5cm silvered dial signed Des Granges Cockspur Street, London, with Roman numerals within slender hinged floral leaf brass convex glazed bezel, the twin chain fusee bell striking movement with anchor escapement with rise and fall to the lenticular bob pendulum shouldered back plate with pendulum holdfast screw, the well figured mahogany rectangular case with a cavetto cornice, with a glazed panel door raised upon a plinth base and bracket feet. 26.5x22x13cms with two keys.
*** originally purchased from George W Bennett 1966, ex Douglas Hume *** Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers page 367 records Des Granges, Peter, Successor to Recordon, 33 Cocksper Street, 1816-1942. CONDITION REPORT: Case - The rectangular top very minor shallow crack left hand corner, the front of the case opposite 9 and 3 o'clock stress crack below the right hand hinge to dial crack, stress crack opposite 9 o'clock, minor chipping around the key hole aperture on the side the silvered dial scratching around the winding apertures and some overall scratching to the dial, floral leaf bezel discoloured, damage inside the glazed back door, glass possibly replaced, wood missing where the clock is attached to the left hand upright, back plate not signed, seat board and supports may have had alterations, part of back bracket feet lacking, front bracket foot part replaced, left hand side of front bracket foot missing.
