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Lot 160
Built Pocher Models 1/8 scale Mercedes Benz 1936 540K Cabrio Special mixed media model with original instruction manual, poseable front wheels, removable panels, winding windows, engine detail etc. Left rear will will need re-attaching along with some other minor repairs/servicing as typical with kit built models. Overall length approx 66.5cm
Lot 166
Built Pocher Models 1/8 scale Alfa Romeo Spider Touring Gran Sport 1932 mixed media model with original instruction manual, poseable front wheels, removable panels, engine detail etc. Right side door detached, other door doesn't open. Some bodywork paint shrinkage, model would benefit from some restoration. Overall length approx 52cm
Lot 185
Fifteen 1/76 scale diecast truck models to include Corgi Roadscene, Atlas Editions and Oxford including limited editions, all models removed from boxes and checked, most mint condition (at least excellent/near mint) with paperwork, 1 individual Corgi wing mirror and 1 Corgi Roadscene box top missing, also 1 Atlas Edition truck with a different model, see photos.
Lot 195
Five boxed vintage Britain's 1/32 scale tractor models to include Massey Ferguson set 9529, 9502 and 9522. Also Deutz set 9526 and Fiat set 9528 and a small Oxford Diecast 1/76 Ford tractor, also a number of unboxed Britain's and Dinky tractor models with spare tyres and models for spares/repairs.
Lot 196
Seven boxed Britain's 1/32 scale farm and plant models to include 43211 X Series JCB excavator, 9496 Deutz DX 4.57 Tractor, 00225 Renault Cergos 340 Tractor, 42892 NC Slurry Ferry Tanker, 42080 Samson Manure Spreader, 42701 Kane 16 Tonne Grain Trailer and 43006 Kane Low Loader, all models previously displayed but in at least excellent condition, boxes at least good.
Lot 1189
19th century, the 3 1/2" enamelled dial on a brass single train fusee movement, the drum case with ribbon surmount and fish scale bezel, on a white marble base with gilt paw feet, with pendulum and key, height 19cm. *Condition: Appears to wind but functionality not guaranteed, tarnishing to case and some gilt losses, minor chips to marble.
Lot 118
DUMOURIEZ, Charles François du Périer (1739-1823). Thoughts on the French Invasion of England ... Translated from the French ... The Third Edition, London, 1798, 4to, folding hand-coloured engraved chart, contemporary wrappers. VERY RARE.DUMOURIEZ, Charles François du Périer (1739-1823). Thoughts on the French Invasion of England ... Translated from the French. Illustrated ... The Third Edition. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1798. 4to (280 x 220mm). Large folding engraved "Chart of Great Britain & Ireland, with the Coasts of France, Spain, Portugal &c: Exhibiting all the Channels, Harbors[sic], Bays & Islands, with the exact Bearings and Distances Between any two Places" by John Stockdale, hand-coloured in outline, 12-pages followed by 4-pages of publisher's advertisements (chart repaired with very slight loss, short tear without loss, some spotting to B2, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining to other leaves). Contemporary plain wrappers, stitched (some fraying). Provenance: Pasted onto the back of the upper wrapper is a contemporary printed sheet, with "4 Days Reading" in autograph at the top, and with 3 printed columns headed, respectively, "When received. Order of Circulation. When sent away", containing a list of 18 printed names and the day and month, but not the year, of their respective borrowing dates added in manuscript - almost invariably for 4 days - and a printed note at the bottom, "To be returned to the Steward", signed "Wm. [?]Briggs". The title page [mis]spells the author's surname 'Dumourier'. The printed note on the map, repeated on the title page, that the chart has "... the exact Bearings and Distances between any Two Places", is not borne out in reality since no distances appear on the chart, nor does it even have a scale. VERY RARE, with no copy of this, or any other edition, in the British Library.
Lot 14
CHURCHILL, Winston (1874-1965). The World Crisis, London, 1923-31, 6 vols., large 8vo, plates, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, VOLUMES ONE AND V ANNOTATED, HIGHLIGHTED AND WITH PASSAGES UNDERLINED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. (6)CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923-31. 5 parts bound in 6 [as usual], large 8vo (233 x 155mm). Half titles, plates and maps, some folding and printed in colours, errata or erratum slips before "Contents" and at p.339 in vol. one, at p.52 in vol. III and at the half title of vol. IV, tables (dedication leaf in vol. III torn without loss). Original dark blue cloth, the upper covers lettered in blind, the spines lettered in gilt (some very faint white staining, the spine of vol. V with some minor wrinkling, short closed tear to head of spine of vol. VI, extremities lightly rubbed, lacking dust jackets). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplates in vols. one and V); Sir Gervase Beckett, Baronet (armorial bookplates in the other 4 vols. - Anthony Eden was one of Beckett's executors). FIRST EDITIONS, except for vol. V which is a second impression. In this set, of what is a notoriously complicated work bibliographically, the title pages read as follows: vol. one: "The World Crisis 1911-1914", dated on the verso of the title April 1923 [but with no volume asterisk on the spine]; vol. II: "The World Crisis 1915", undated, but the preface dated August 13, 1923; vol. III: "The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part I", dated on the verso of the title 1927; vol. IV: "The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part II", dated on the verso of the title 1927 [with pagination running on from the previous vol.]; vol. V: "The World Crisis. The Aftermath", dated on the verso of the title "First published ... March, 1929. Second impression March, 1929"; and vol. VI: "The World Crisis. The Eastern Front", dated on the verso of the title 1931. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SET. VOLUMES ONE AND V ANNOTATED, HIGHLIGHTED AND WITH PASSAGES UNDERLINED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, in volume one, on p.204 (commenting on the printed passage '... I am certain that if Sir Edward Grey had sent the kind of ultimatum suggested [i.e. that if Germany attacked France or Belgium, England would declare war upon her], the Cabinet would have broken up, and it is also my belief that up till Wednesday or Thursday at least, the House of Commons would have repudiated his action'), Eden writes: "In other words Cabinet was too 'soft'"; on p.265 (commenting on the printed passage 'At any rate, that is the sort of way in which I thought then, before the event, and think still, the French command might best have safeguarded the vital interests of France'): "This sounds [illegible words] much too vague ... I do not think Winston can [?]teach French generals this ... This friendship throughout the war was infinitely superior to ours and W. was not even a British soldier. Our staff - work was more thorough"; on p.266 (commenting on 'Plan XVII'): "This is neither true nor fair criticism"; on p.269 (commenting on the printed passage 'Someone suggested we should at any rate make sure of the Cotentin peninsula ... from which the British armies of the future might proceed to the rescue of France'): "You would have done better to do as you were told!"; on p.270 (commenting on a quote from Asquith's [?]telegram to the Commander-in-Chief Grand Fleet which stated on August 24th 1914, 'We have not entered the business [i.e. of going to war] without resolve to see it through and you may be assured that our action will be proportioned to the gravity of the need'): "Gas bag!"; on p.274 (commenting on the footnote 'In fact, however, it was the 1st Middlesex ... who captured the guns at Néry'): "Not the first time, or the last, that the Guards obtained the credit for the deeds of other and better soldiers"; on p.282 (commenting on the printed passage '... I consider now that this prudent withholding from the Army in the field in the face of every appeal and demand, the key-men who alone could make the new armies, was the greatest of the services which Lord Kitchener rendered to the nation at this time, and it was a service which no one of lesser authority than he could have performed'): "In other words we should not [underlined] have won the war without K. [i.e. Kitchener]"; in volume V, on p.23 (commenting, in blue pencil, on a passage which quotes Lloyd George, 'But after all, life is a brief span, and all that matters is not to fall below the level of events upon the greatest occasions'): "W's favourite motto"; on p.113 (commenting on the printed passage 'Mr Lloyd George said that "Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep her navy superior to that of the United States or any other Power ..."'): "and today!"; on p.261 (commenting on refugees fleeing Crimea for Constantinople): "I saw this - indescribable. Selling stamps in the street, waiting in cafes, their uniforms were magnificent, their plight pitiable"; on p.287 (commenting on the printed passage 'A certain number of high Tories, while rigidly opposing any effective concession to Irish Nationalist demands, were still more violent in their denunciations of the Black and Tans'): "Bob C. as usual" [possibly referring to Robert Lindsay Crawford]; on p.290 a largely illegible note regarding a passage concerning Lloyd George's personal safety; on p.296 (commenting on Gladstone's views on Irish home rule): "[? illegible initials, but possibly] O.W.J. wanted a majority. He never thought of Home Rule until then - any more than [illegible name] did"; on p.307 (commenting on the printed passage 'Yet in so far as Mr Lloyd George can link his political misfortunes with this Irish story ...'): "not very far"; on p.320 Eden has boldly underlined and highlighted the following printed passage (tellingly, with hindsight): 'The general opinion was well expressed by Mr Neville Chamberlain:- "I, for one, am not going to be exasperated by outrages into changing my opinion as to the proper course to pursue. I consider in these difficult times that our business is to keep our heads, not to allow ourselves to be flustered into courses we may regret hereafter ..."'; on p.354 (commenting on the passage 'What was to happen to scandalous, crumbling, decrepit and penniless Turkey in this earthquake?'): "Hardly? It was our diplomacy and that of the French that failed. The Russians always aimed at [?]bringing Turkey into the war against us, for Constantinople was their chief war objective, as always"; on p.358 (commenting on the printed passage 'The rage and disappointment excited thereby throughout Turkey was said to have turned the scale and provoked Turkey into war against us'): "What effect had this on driving Turkey into the war against us? That it created profound feeling amongst all Turks who had [?]subscribed their [?]force, I know"; on p.359 (commenting on the printed passage 'I can recall no great sphere of policy about which the British Government was less completely informed than the Turkish'): "but the Russians knew it & bluffed us"; on p.369 (commenting on the printed passage 'I cannot understand to this day how the eminent statesmen in Paris ... could have been betrayed into so rash and fatal a step'): "Except that both Wilson & [?]L. G. [?Lloyd George] were [?]equally [?]ignorant & Clemenceau indifferent on most [?]aspects"; on p.370 (of Damat Ferid Pasha): "charming old man & probably scholar & gentleman. Very ill when I was at C"; on p.373 (commenting on the printed passage 'On the main issue of Constantinople Mr Lloyd George was whole-heartedly with lord Curzon'): "I thought dragging Curzon with him?"; on p.394 (commenting on a printed passage which transcribes a letter from Churchill to Lloyd George on Greece and Turkey): "All this would carry greater conviction [?]if [?]one [?]was not aware that Winston...
Lot 113
A good late 18th century ebony inlaid mahogany bow fronted stick barometerTroughton, LondonThe swan neck pediment over a bow fronted glass and long trunk with flame veneer to a base with canted corners inlaid with ebony lozenges framing the ebonised urn shaped cistern cover. The signed silvered dial with seven weather predictions and rack-and-pinion vernier to the 27 to 31 inch scale. 100cms (3ft 4ins) highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 112
A rare mid 18th century mahogany stick barometerF. Watkins, LondonThe shaped top with three brass ball finials over an arched cornice supported on brass-mounted Doric columns over a long trunk with visible tube flanked by moulded edges, terminating in a shaped turned hemispherical cistern cover, the two-part signed silvered dial engraved with seven weather predictions and manual vernier to the 28 to 31 inch scale 1.01m (3ft 4ins) highFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 32
A rare late 19th/early 20th century French spelter wall-mounted timepiece and matching barometerEach with a 4.5inch dial held aloft by Classical women in flowing robes, issuing from a reeded scroll support against a shaped baseplate on later custom made shaped wall mounts; the timepiece with Roman dial and blued steel moon hands, the movement with cylinder platform escapement (ticking); the aneroid barometer with seven weather predictions reading against the 28 to 31 inch scale, with blued steel active hand and brass recording hand Height of the figures 62cms (2ft .5ins), total height including the backboard 66cms (2ft 2ins). (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 78
An impressive 18th century brass-bound ebony quarter-repeating table clock with moonphaseClaude Duchesne, LondonThe case surmounted by an inverted caddy top with central finial over a silk-backed pierced soundfret framed by four further finials over an elaborately moulded cornice raised on brass-mounted Tuscan three-quarter columns to each corner framing the long shaped pierced brass-framed sound frets backed in silk to each side, the front and rear doors with similar brass frames, all on a multi-layered moulded base bound in brass to the top and bottom, on substantial brass bun feet. The 8-inch arched brass dial with rare 'Chronos' spandrels depicting a bearded Father Time below a sandglass and pair of wings, framing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with lozenge half-quarter marks and fleur des lys half-hour markers signed Claudius DuChesne Londini between V and VII, the finely matted centre with ringed winding holes, chamfered and engraved calendar and mock pendulum apertures under intricately pierced blued steel hands, the arch decorated with foliate scrolls and a pair of birds within strapwork enclosing a strike/not strike lever, moonphase (the outer scale marked 1-59) and aperture for setting the phase of the moon. The twin gut fusee movement with five knopped pillars and knife-edge verge escapement, the backplate with extensive floral and strapwork engraving, a partridge in the centre and a beast mask below, framed by a stylised wheatear border. Ticking, striking and repeating with a door key and a winding key. 73cms (28.5ins) highFootnotes:Claude Duchesne was seemingly born around 1670. It is commonly accepted that he lived in Paris, until just after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, at which point he joined many other Huguenot refugees and fled to the U.K. It is uncertain exactly when he arrived, with some putting it as early as 1689. The first concrete evidence of his life in the U.K. is from 1693; not only was he made free of the Clockmaker's Company in this year, he also married Elizabeth Bossu in Stepney. The couple would have at least three children; Claudius, born in 1699, Elizabeth born in 1706, and Anthony, born in 1708, though there are some contemporary reports of the couple having five children at one point. Claudius would eventually become a weaver, and Anthony would become a goldsmith. It is not known what became of Elizabeth. Duchesne became a British citizen in 1711. Duchesne was known to sign his clocks as either 'Claude' or 'Claudius' and 'Duchesne' or 'Du Chesne'. The exact location of his shop is questionable; most clocks give a location of either 'Dean Street, Soho' or 'Long Acre', so it seems likely that he was working in Soho. Wherever he worked, Duchesne appears to have been a highly regarded maker, especially in the construction of musical clocks. An account given by Jane Squire in 1731, notes that she 'understood he had made the musical Part of most of the musical Clocks of Note in Town'. Duchesne set himself apart from other makers of the time by featuring interchangeable music barrels, a style that had last been extensively practiced by William Jourdain in the later 17th century. Both makers also featured twelve bells with multiple, variable hammers and parallel motion music work. This suggests a detailed knowledge of music theory, in addition to the horological skill required to make such clocks. It seems that Duchesne may also have had some acquaintance with George Graham and John Harrison, the latter being introduced to Duchesne by the former. It is thought that Harrison contacted Duchesne in order to obtain the large quantities of brass he, Harrison, needed for his horological experimentations. Claude Duchesne is believed to have died in April 1733, and been buried in St. James, Paddington. His son, Anthony, married Anne Gagnon, and the couple had six children, one of whom, Claude (born in 1735) would go on to be a clockmaker. Duchesne's other known son, Claudius, married Anne, and the couple had four children. One of their children, Elizabeth 'Betty' Duchesne was born in 1724 and was known to be close friends with John, Charles and Sarah Wesley, with John Wesley conducting her funeral in 1776. It is thought that Elizabeth was responsible for gifting a walnut, moon phase eight-day longcase clock, made by her grandfather, to the Wesley's. The clock is reported to have never left Wesley's house, where it remains to this day. A late 19th century account suggests that the clock is the very timepiece that inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to write The Old Clock on the Stairs, though this is not definitive: 'Half-way up the stairs it stands/And points and beckons with its hands.By day its voice is low and light/But in the silent dead of night,Distinct as a passing footstep's fall/It echoes along the vacant hall,Along the ceiling, along the floor/And seems to say, at each chamber-door, --'Forever -- never!/Never -- forever!''Blake, G. (2011) 'A Record of the Death of Claude Duchesne', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 32 (5), pgs. 730-731.Turner, A. (2014) 'Charles Clay: fashioning timely music', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 35 (3), pg.933.Betts, J. (2017) Marine Chronometers at Greenwich. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pg. 143.Blake, G., Wintle, C., Gill, J. (2010) 'Claude Duchesne- Huguenot Clockmaker', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 32 (1), pgs. 43-51.British Horological Institute (1891) 'Correspondence', The Horological Journal, Vol. 34 (1), pg. 16.Wesley's Chapel & Leysian Mission (2023) Virtual Tour: Wesley's House, Study. Available at: https://www.wesleyschapel.org.uk/your-visit/virtual-tour/ Dawber, E. G. (1898-1899) 'Some Thoughts on Clocks and Their Decoration: Part Two', The Architectural Review Vol. 5, pg. 261.Longfellow, H. (1890) The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliographical and Critical Notes, Riverside Edition, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin.Ord-Hume, A. W. J. G. (1995) The Musical Clock, Ashbourne: Mayfield Books.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 24
A fine mid 19th century English gilt brass carriage clock compendium with twin thermometers and compassThe movement numbered 4228The tall rectangular inverted-bow-front case surmounted by a facetted handle on foliate uprights over a recessed magnetic compass framed by ball finials over reeded columns on a stepped base, set to the right-hand side with a centigrade thermometer with scale in French, the left-hand side with Fahrenheit thermometer with scale in English for Blood heat, Summer heat, Temperate and Freezing, the main engine turned Roman dial with fine Breguet style hands set within a foliate engraved mask, the solid rear door hinged at the base and opening to reveal the chain fusee movement and monometallic balance planted on the numbered backplate. 14.5cms (5.75is) high.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 116
A good and rare late 18th century mahogany stick barometerDollond, LondonThe broken architectural cornice centred by an urn finial over a moulded border to the turned hemispherical cistern cover, a wheatbeard hygrometer inset to the top over a signed silvered dial marked with seven weather predictions and manual vernier to the 28 to 31 inch scale, the trunk set with a 21 inch mercury thermometer with silvered centigrade scale terminating in a protective brass cover over the turned cistern cover, the trunk with moulded edge throughout 1.09ms (3ft 7ins) high. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 87
A good late 19th century mahogany floor-standing General Post Office regulatorP.O. 1 A, movement numbered 653The arched case with silvered sight ring and brass plaque engraved P.O 1, a further ivory plaque engraved A above the glazed door displaying the wooden rod pendulum with cylindrical brass bob and engraved regulating nut, passing above a silvered regulating scale and brass inscription plaque reading Presented to Ray Clarke on his retirement from British Telecom on 31st January 1988 by the Materials Executive Management Board, supported on a panelled base with button feet. The silvered 12.5-inch dial with outer Arabic minute track enclosing the recessed subsidiary dials for Observatory style Arabic seconds (hand lacking) and Roman hours. The substantial single-barrel weight driven movement protected from dust by a wooden cover, the thick plates united by five heavy turned pillars and secured to the seatboard via three large L-shaped brackets, the deadbeat escapement with fine screw beat adjustment to the long crutch and Harrison's maintaining power and a dead-beat escapement, the backplate with terminals for wiring to a previous electrical impulse system, the front plate stamped 653 X. Ticking with a case key, a winding key and a brass cased weight. 187cms (6ft 1.5ins) highFootnotes:Provenance:This clock was presented to Ray Clarke, the vendor's father, on his retirement from The General Post Office in 1988. He joined the institution (later known as British Telecom or BT) at their Studd Street premises in 1950. By the time of his retirement, he was based at Euston Tower and was the last holder of the title Head of Supplies. This precision timepiece had by that stage become obsolete, but earlier on in the century would have played a critical role in the organisation. The 'A' plaque intimates that it was likely part of a pair, and may well have been in use from new, if so, this is the first time it will have been available on the open market. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP Y ФTP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information.For all other auctions: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the UK, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 117
A good late 18th century ebonised single pad top table clockEdward Bird, BristolSurmounted by a cast handle on a brass-framed pad over elaborate moulded cornice, fish-scale side frets and stepped moulded base raised on brass ogee bracket feet. The 7.5 inch painted Roman dial (refreshed) with blued steel spade hands. The twin gut fusee movement with anchor escapement and rack striking (with trip repeat) on a bell, the signed backplate decorated with a pattern of symmetrical foliate scrolls. Ticking, striking and operational trip repeat , together with a door key on a tassle to operate both front and back doors. 46cms (18ins) high.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 154
Single family ownership for 125 years. A good 19th century mahogany floor standing regulator with enclosed jar mercury pendulumCharles Frodsham, LondonThe concave cornice over a running dentil moulding, canted front angles and moulded side panels, the long door framed in lacquered brass and flanked by similar angles to a panelled base and apron. The 12 inch silvered dial signed across the centre Charles Frodsham, London, with outer Arabic minute track enclosing the subsidiary dials for running seconds with Observatory marks and hours, with three original blued steel hands. The substantial movement with shaped plates united by five heavy knopped pillars screwed to the front plate, with maintaining power and wheels of six crossings out throughout to a deadbeat escapement with sapphire jewelled pallets, (crutch broken, but the fork present, with fine screw beat adjustment) to an enclosed jar mercury pendulum suspended from a substantial brass bracket mounted to the thick oak backboard and reading against a silvered beat scale, the small brass weight on a pulley of six crossings out. Together with two case keys and a crank winder. 1.98m (6ft 6ins) highFootnotes:Provenance:Single family ownership since the late 19th century, together with a receipt made to the vendors forebears from Robt. Haswell & Sons, Clerkenwell, Watch & Clockmakers & Jewellers, dated November 1898 for the sum of £40-9-6.Saleroom notices:Please note that this lot's crank key has an ivory handle, and as such, is subjected to Cites regulations.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP Y ФTP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information.For all other auctions: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the UK, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 77
An important third quarter of the 18th century mahogany table clock with phases of the moon, time of high water, automatic representation of the state of tide, and date. Together with an 18th centuryoak box.Designed by James Ferguson, circa 1764, made by Samuel Northcote, Plymouth shortly afterThe bell top case with handle and four cone finials over shaped and circular glazed side apertures to a moulded base on later brass ogee bracket feet, the front door with brass edging and cast seashell quadrants. The 7.5 inch tall rectangular dial set to the arch with a rotating spherical moon, half-silvered/half-blued to represent the state of the moon in the night's sky, set over a hand-painted panel depicting a standing couple with goats by their side looking across the sea to a castle flying the Union flag on the opposite bank; the scene is centred by a painted sea inhabited by a manned rowboat, the sea panel is set on a vertical arm which is geared to the clock movement and automatically raises and lowers itself to indicate the relative height of the tides each day. The silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with inner concentric date set over a pair of subsidiary dials; the left hand side with twice I-XII scale around the moon's age 1-29.5 one hand gives the age of the moon, the other the time of high tide; the right hand side dial is divided into eight sections, the single hand geared to rotate and show the ebbs and flows of the ocean, each three-hour sector engraved variously for High Water - Half Ebb - Low Water - Half Flood - High Water - Half Ebb - Low Water - Half Flood, framing the engraved signature Samuel Northcote, Plymouth.The twin gut (now wire) fusee movement now with anchor escapement, and rack striking on a bell, the gearing for the falling and rising sea level is set between the front plate and the dial. The backplate repeat signed Saml. Northcote, Plymouth with interlaced straps and foliage. Ticking, tide automaton, spherical moon and subsidiary dials all apparently working. Together with a pendulum and two case keys. Together with a contemporary oak travelling box, the slightly tapering case with a deep top lid set over a pair of front doors opening to reveal a felt-lined interior, set with iron handles to the sides and a large shaped escutcheon plate and sliding bolt to the front. With the brass ogee feet removed, clock sits within this case. Presumably for travel, padded felt 'cushions' would have been used to give additional protection and provide a tighter fit. The travel case 58cms x 40cms x 24cms. (2)Footnotes:Literature:Ponsford, Devon Clocks and Clockmakers, 1985, pp109-111; Plates 36 and 37. Samuel Northcote senior (c1709-1791) was the son of a painter; two of Samuel's sons survived childhood, Samuel junior (c.1742-1813), who followed in his father's footsteps and James (1746-1831) who became a successful painter, though he had completed, on his father's insistence, a full horological apprenticeship in his own workshop. In his autobiography James says of his father that he was 'valued by all who knew him for his great integrity, abilities, and general knowledge...he was a pious, studious, humble and ingenious man.' Plymouth was a busy port in the 18th century, and Devon was home to many gifted minds. In 1740 Northcote and his good friend Lyne Brett were founder members of the Otter Club - a group of twelve men who would take morning baths in the sea, and once a fortnight meet for supper. Dr John Mudge, (1721-1793) brother of the celebrated horologist Thomas Mudge (1715-1794) was also one of the twelve members. John was a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded its Copley gold medal in 1777. Doubtless Mudge would have discussed the latest London experiments and events with his fellow Otters. It is worth noting too, that Thomas returned to Plymouth in 1771 in order to work on the problem of finding longitude at sea. Ponsford illustrates this clock by Samuel Senior in his definitive book and states 'Another bracket clock has a plate in the dial arch which rises and falls to indicate the state of the tide. Signed 'Samuel Northcote, Plymouth, it was made to a design by the astronomer James Ferguson, who visited Plymouth and stayed for several months as a guest of Northcote's friend, Dr John Mudge. The original clock of this kind was contrived by Ferguson in 1764 for Captain Hutchinson, dockmaster at Liverpool, but it was from Plymouth in May 1766 that Ferguson sent a detailed description of it to the Royal Society, together with a large drawing of the dial and its mechanism.' Ferguson himself described it as follows; 'a table clock, showing the hours and minutes, the day of the month, the moon's phases, age, and time of coming to the meridian, with the time of high water every day, and the state of the tide at any time of the day or night, by inspection.'For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 115
A fine late 18th century mahogany stick barometerT Blunt, LondonThe waisted case with moulded edge and arched top with signed silvered scale ranging from 27.5 to 31 inches engraved for seven weather predictions, over a long mercury Fahrenheit thermometer with protective brass bulb cover over a hemispherical cistern cover. 95cms (37.5ins) high. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 42
An 18th Century brass-bound ebonised two-tune table clock playing on eight bells and sixteen hammers. Together with a later wall bracket.Richard Wilson, LondonThe inverted bell top case with foliate cast handle over a deep cornice, the front glazed door with gilt floral quadrant sound frets, similar to the rear, the sides with fish-scale frets backed in silk, on a plinth base and brass block feet. The eight inch arched brass dial with tune selection in the arch offering A Minuet or A March over two levers for Strike/Not Strike and Chime/not Chime, the Roman and Arabic chapter ring framing the finely matted centre with mock pendulum and calendar apertures. The triple chain fusee movement with thick plates united by knopped pillars, now with deadbeat escapement mounted on the backplate, rack striking on a bell, and playing the tunes on a run of eight bells and sixteen hammers, the backplate signature set within elaborate interlaced foliate scrolls and a line border. Ticking, striking and chiming, together with a pendulum and crank winding key, also with a substantial ebonised double-support wall bracket with moulded edge. (2) The clock case 57cms (22.5ins) high. The wall bracket adding a further 37cms (14.5ins). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 62
A good mid 19th century English engraved gilt brass strut clock in the form of a toilet mirrorThomas Cole, London, No. 680. Retailed by C.F.Hancock, LondonThe silvered oval dial signed for the retailer within a series of engraved strapwork on a hatched ground, Roman chapter ring and good blued steel fleur de lys hands centred by the monogram TSS, with Renaissance-inspired engraved central band hinged between a pair of shaped and decorated uprights on a stepped base containing a mercury thermometer reading against a silvered scale, numbered to the underside of the base and set with a rotating shaped support, decorated all over with elaborate foliate scrollwork on a hatched ground. The rear of the case with sprung catch to secure the top section for transit, the rear door fully signed C.F. HANCOCK, a Successor of STORR & MORTIMER'S by Appointment to H.M.Queen Adelaide, H.I.M. the Emperor of Russia, 39, Bruton St, LONDON. The gilt movement with spring barrel set within shaped plates united by four turned pillars driving a jewelled English lever escapement. Ticking. 19cms (7.5ins) high.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 60
A unique and very fine mid 19th century English gilt-brass mounted walnut giant striking travelling clock with thermometer and original key numbered 838Attributable to Thomas Cole, London. Retailed by Thomas Boxell, BrightonThe rectangular case surmounted by an engraved gilt handle on a pair of shaped pommels set on a multi-stepped engraved plate with glazed centre to reveal the platform below, with beaded cornice over a pair of arched side windows set with pierced and engraved gilt panels depicting an urn of flowers with a vine and geometric border, the plinth with mounts to the rear and sides, but set to the front with a mercury thermometer reading against a silvered scale, the corners mounted with cast scrolls (two loose but present). The 3.75 inch silvered Roman dial with a minute band framed by engraved climbing roses and the retailers signature within a strapwork cartouche, with blued steel fleur de lys hands, all bordered by a gilt engraved sight ring. The twin chain fusee movement with maintaining power to the large platform with underslung lever escapement; the strike train sounding the hours on a coiled blued steel gong. 31cms (12.25ins) high.Footnotes:Provenance: Single family ownership from new. Almost certainly purchased by Anne Hay-Mackenzie, Duchess of Sutherland and 1st Countess of Cromartie (1829-1888), Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria. Thence by descent to her son, Francis, 2nd Earl of Cromartie, then his daughter, Sybil Blunt-Mackenzie, 3rd Countess of Cromartie, and then her son Roderick Blunt-Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Cromartie. The 4th Earl, late chief of the Clan Mackenzie and author of 'A Highland History', kept this clock running on his desk in the library, it was a particular favourite of his, so much so in fact, that no-one else was allowed to wind it.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 51
An interesting mid 19th century brass travel timepiece in original mahogany outer caseArnold, 84 Strand, London, No. 2300 The 6 inch signed painted Roman dial with outer minute track and good blued steel hands, with regulation scale above XII, the bevelled glass set in a shallow cylindrical, turned brass case with fixing hoops to top and bottom. The movement with a jewelled English lever platform escapement and a monometallic steel balance, repeat numbered and stamped with a B in a square. Further contained and protected by an arched mahogany travelling case with suspension loop and sliding front door, the velvet lined interior recessed to accommodate the brass case. Ticking. The outer case 25cms (10ins) high.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 122
A very rare late 18th century figured mahogany inverted wheel barometer and matching thermometerJoshua Long, 20, Little Tower Street, LondonEach with a signed silvered 7.5 inch dial with matching blued steel active hands and brass recording hands adjusted via a separate knob, set below a swan neck pediment over a tapering trunk; the barometer with seven concentric weather predictions reading against a 28 to 31 inch scale divided into 100ths of a inch; the thermometer with four engraved temperatures ranging from 25 to 110 degrees centigrade 99cms (3ft 3ins) high (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the UK, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 237
Mid-19th-century marine stick barometer Mid-19th-century marine stick barometer, signed Moon from Dolland London, molded cadded pediment, brass frame to bow glazed, viewing panel to ivorine backed scale, vernia with adjustment disc, mahogany case with rope twist, inset with thermometer hanging on brass gimble.height 91cm
Lot 391
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘SILVER SHAPE’ SAUCEBOAT 18th Century, the interior decorated with mother and child, the lobed exterior decorated with scale and flowers, brown rim, 9cm high x 22cm long x 11cm wide together with a Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain ewer, possibly 17th century, decorated with figures and trees, 21cm high (2)Provenance: The Estate of the late John Rollo Somerset-Paddon, formerly of Chalk Newton House, Maiden Newton, Dorset, thence by descent.
Lot 458
WILLIAM WALLS (1860-1942) A folio of small scale watercolours of Scottish landscapes each approximately 12cm x 16.5cm (64)William Walls was a landscape and animal painter born in Dunfermline and based in Edinburgh. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy and at the Antwerp Academie Royale des Beaux Arts, where his peers included E. A. Hornel and William Stewart MacGeorge. It was in Antwerp that he began making drawings and paintings of animals in the zoos there and in London at a time when animal painting was becoming popular in England. In 1892, Andrew Carnegie commissioned animal portraits from him. Walls later became a founder member of Edinburgh Zoo. Walls was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, 1914 and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, 1906 and became a well-known teacher at Edinburgh College of Art. Walls also served twice as judge for the Edinburgh Photographic Society Open Exhibition, in 1924 and 1937. A prolific artist, Walls showed over 200 works at the RSA, almost 100 at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and 18 at the Royal Academy, London, as well as showing at the RHA, AAS and with Connell & Sons.
Lot 1171
Four boxed Corgi The Aviation Archive 1:72 scale ltd edn diecast models / sets to include AA99189 70 Years Of The Spitfire Johnnie Johnson 3 Piece Set (small tear to box lid), AA33709 Heinkel He111H, AA36702 World War II Battle For The Low Countries and AA32012 Hawker Hurricane MkI. Diecast ex, contents appear gd; boxes gd overall - some storage wear
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