A Twin Fusee Bracket Clock By Dent

A fine ship’s bell bulkhead clock striking the ‘Dog Watches’ Sequence. This eight day twin fusee clock is a rare example of a ships striking clock marking ...

An 18th century balloon shaped bracket or table clock by John Leroux of Charing Cross, dating from circa 1790. The waisted case surmounted by a brass pineapple finial over a drum housing the movement. The dial is behind a hinged convex glazed cast brass bezel to front and brass carrying handles to sides, over hipped concave-sided section forming the base. The front has an applied mount of a sunburst mask, the rear with keyhole shaped door incorporating fine scroll-pierced sound fret set within the frame of the case, on generous cavetto moulded skirt base incorporating break-arch recess to apron and with ogee bracket feet. The five knopped pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with rounded angles to the rectangular plates and anchor escapement regulated by a long bob pendulum with an effective length of approximately 11.5 inches, the backplate signed J. Leroux, London to centre, the 7 inch circular single sheet silvered brass Roman numeral dial signed Leroux, Charing Cross to centre, with fine pierced steel hands and Arabic five minutes to outer track. An identical clock is illustrated in English Bracket and Mantel Clocks by Andrew Nicholls...

An extremely small single fusee bracket clock in a scalloped mahogany case. The eight day movement having a half deadbeat escapement with a T bar pendulum with hold fast, is beautifu...

A one of a kind english twin fusee carriage clock by James Moore French. The eight day movement has a large English jewelled level escapement with compensated bimetallic balance. The movement is wound and set through a round glazed door at the back and can be regulated from the outside as the fast/slow arm extends through the back of the case with rack striking the hour and half hour on blued steel gong with trip repeat. The gilt dial is signed as is th back plate of the movement, the centre of the dial is engraved with foliate scroll work with a roman chapter and breguet style moon hands. The unusual case of case bronze in a rococo revival style is finely chased with fluted sides flanked by Cariatids with a swag of fruit and flowers strung between them, th handle is formed of two dolphins. James Moore French was born in 1781 in County Antrim, Ireland. He was the son of Dr Hugh French and Sarah (née Arundel) French who married his father in 1763 and died in 1783, two years after James’s birth. In 1784, the year after Sarah’s death, Dr Hugh French married a widow named Judith Woodward who was to raise the young James French as her own, alongside his own and his half siblings. As a young man, James French moved from Ireland to London, where he worked with a relative, Peter Moore...

George III Bell Top Bracket Clock Fine flame mahogany case with ormolu mounts and ormolu caryatids standing on bracket feet. Silvered dial with subsidiary dial for strike/silent,...

Regency bracket clock in an arch top case with brass inlay and dentil moulding, side carrying handles and standing on four brass ball feet. Painted dial with Roman numerals and original spade hands signed ‘Memess, Trafalgar Square, London’. Glazed rear door to the fine quality eight day single fuse movement with arch shaped plates and ‘regulating’ pendulum. C.1820. ‘Watchmakers and clockmakers of the world’ by Brian Loomes...

Antique 19th century Georgian, key wind, double / twin fusee bracket clock with pull chime cord. Flame mahogany case with oxbow top and carved pinwheels and scrolls. Sides feature br...

Library bracket clock by Norman, Pimlico Finely figured mahogany case with ebony mouldings standing on a stepped moulded plinth and resting on pad feet with bevelled glass viewi...