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Four English pocket watch movements - R&G Beesley, Liverpool, table roller fusee lever with Liverpool window, no. 28679, original dial, 46mm; Richard Hornby, Liverpool, fusee lever with centre seconds, no. 27071, original dial, 43mm; Frodsham fusee duplex, no. 4596, 44mm (a.f); Owen Williams, LLanrwst, fusee lever, no. 113040, with dial and dust cover, 47mm (4)
Fine English walnut, ebonised and ormolu mounted architectural double fusee table clock, signed Henry Jones, the substantial movement with outside countwheel, square arbors, thick brass rectangular plates secured by six unusual double baluster pillars screwed at the back plate and pinned to the front plate, the going train with pin-capped spring barrel, fat fusee and re-built verge escapement, the strike train also with pin-capped barrel and fat fusee, calibrated countwheel planted on the back plate giving hour strike on a later bell on a steel stand above the plates, the later 8" square lacquered brass dial signed Henry Jones in ye Temple beneath the narrow silvered Roman chapter ring enclosing a matted centre with apertures for calendar with pin hole adjustment and day of the week, winding shutter lever positioned by chapter II, the case with panelled architectural pediment with applied foliate swag to the front and side friezes, with ebonised twist columns terminating in gilt metal Corinthian capitals, the base set with a drawer with gilt brass lion mask handle, upon later bun feet, 20.75" high (pendulum). With repairs and alterations - see full condition report . *Purchased from Sotheby`s London Auction on 30th April 1964 (lot 88)
Interesting and rare two day marine chronometer of Australian interest, with Earnshaw type balance, the 3" silvered dial signed James Murray, Royal Exchange, London, no. 640 with subsidiary seconds dial, within the original mahogany brass bound hinged case inset with an ivory tablet inscribed Murray, 640, with brass side carrying handles (winding key). This chronometer is sold with copies of official papers detailing its H.M.S. service history. Notably, it was used on board H.M.S Fly (1842-1846) when this ship was deployed surveying the coast of Australia. The lot is also accompanied by a table exhibiting the rates of the chronometers on board H.M.S. Fly during this period. This instrument saw a long active service having been used on board twenty different ships over a period of one hundred and two years. It was finally returned to its owner, after loan to the Admiralty, in 1944. The maker James Murray received several awards for the accuracy of his chronometers and is mentioned in Tony Mercer - Chronometer Makers of the World, `This distinguished Artist who has had the honour of producing the best instrument ever known is a native of Moffat in Dumfries`
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