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Victorian brass cased carriage clock with champleve decoration to the front, sides, rear of the case and carrying handle with bevelled glasses throughout. Gilded dial mask with ena...

Fine French Ormolu table clock featuring a beautifully decorated base with cherub and classical scenes resting on an ormolu outswept base with flo...

French mantel clock housed in a flat top grey marble case with gilded decoration. Gilded chased bezel opening to the enamel dial with Roman numerals and original ‘blued’ steel hands...

Porcelain Panel Repeating Carriage Clock Gilded case with porcelain panels featuring finely painted floral scenes, beaded decoration around the dial and decorative carrying handle. ...

Silver Hallmarked Mantel Clock. Silver mantel clock housed in a hallmarked waisted case with engine turning, convex glass and floral decoration to the front. The side, base and back ...

French Empire Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Mantel Clock Patinated bronze and ormolu mantel clock housed in an oval ribbed case with raised plinth with fine engine turned band and res...

Mahogany Library Bracket Clock by M.Thomas & Son, London Finely figured Five glass mahogany case with moulded plinth and standing on brass bracket feet with Bevelled glass throug...

Edwardian Terrestrial Globe with ebonised base, polished brass meridian marked from 0 to 80 degrees surmounted by a turned finial. The globe with its original label from George Phi...

Victorian Walnut Bracket Clock by Barraud & Lund, Cornhill, London Victorian bracket clock housed in a finely figured walnut case with stepped pediment surmounted by ribbed brass de...

A Fine Two Day Marine Chronometer By John Bliss and Co, New York. No.3068 Two day marine chromometer by John Bliss and Co housed in a beautiful three tier brass bound box with brass carrying handles to the sides, brass push button knob opening to a third tier. The box has a wonderful rich patina and retains it’s original solid brass Tipsy key. The movement is housed within a gimballed brass surround which is stamped H.M.I and marked with the ordnance arrow The high quality 56 hour chain fusee movement has full brass plates joined by four ringed pillars, an Earnshaw-type spring detent escapement with maintaining power, split bi-metallic balance and cylindrical shaped temperature compensation weights, polished steel helical balance and faceted endstone. The silvered dial signed ‘John Bliss & Co, New York No 3068 with subsidiary dial below XII for ‘state of wind’ and subsidiary seconds dial above the VI, original ‘blued’ steel hands. C.1890 John Bliss & Co worked at 128 Front Street, New York between 1880 and 1929 and then 84 Pearl Street, New York from 1934 to 1939. Front Street runs from the Brooklyn Bridge to Hudson Ave. and Navy Street, close to the Docks area. On the death of John Bliss, his sons John and George carried on the business. Their chronometers were placed 3rd, 6th and 8th at the Washington Observatory Trials in 1886. They became suppliers to the US Navy and also made meteorological instruments and devised an original way of making mainsprings. Many of their movements were supplied by makers in England, particularly Victor Kullberg.

Arts and Crafts Cast Iron and Copper Mantel Clock A rare and unusual Arts and crafts mantle clock housed in a cast iron square case with decorative corners and long slender legs. R...

Art Deco Blue-John Mantel Clock Art Deco mantel / desk clock. The rectangular case of pale agate dial surround with blue-john panels to the sides and top resting on a black slate ...