Archive for December, 2009
Friday, December 25th, 2009
9-CARAT GOLD HUNTING-CASED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH - GOLD OPEN-FACED LADIES’ KEYLESS CYLINDER WATCH - ‘LOUIS XV’ KINGWOOD CARTEL WATCH CASE
A GOLD HUNTING-CASED KEYLESS LEVER
WATCH with compensation balance and micrometer adjustment, the dial with roman numerals and subsidiary seconds, the case engine-turned and engraved with a monogram, 52mm, with a
gold chain.
A GOLD OPEN-FACED KEYLESS LEVER
WATCH, the [...]
Tags: 18 carat gold, A GUN-METAL OPEN-FACED, A GUN-METAL QUARTER-REPEATING, A SILVER OPEN-FACED, Audemars, button, CARAT, CHRONOGRAPH, CYLINDER, GILT-BRONZE, gold, gold chain, gun metal, HALF-HUNTING-CASED, hunting, kingwood, LEVER, MANTEL, monogram, OPEN-FACED, quarter plate, QUARTER-REPEATING, repeat, roman numerals, silver, subsidiary, swiss bar, watch case, WOOD
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
FREE-SPRUNG LEVER MOVEMENT - 18-CARAT GOLD PAIR-CASED RACK LEVER WATCH - 18-CARAT GOLD HALF-HUNTING-CASED FREE-SPRUNG LEVER WATCH
AN 18-CARAT GOLD HUNTING-CASED
KEYLESS LEVER WATCH by Thos. Russell & Son, 18 Church Street, Liverpool, no. 9039, the three-quarter plate move¬ment with compensation balance, the dial with repeat signature
and sub-sidiary seconds, 49mm, hallmarked London 1882.
AN 18-CARAT GOLD HALF-HUNTING-CASED [...]
Tags: 18 carat gold, 18 Church Street, A SILVER PAIR-CASED, balance spring, CARAT, CENTRE-SECONDS, chronometer, FREE-SPRUNG, gold, gold chain, GOLD-PLATED, HALF-HUNTING-CASED, J. Hargreaves, James Houghton, KEYLESS, LEVER, lever watch, OPEN-FACED, PAIR-CASED, Plymouth, quarter plate, roman numerals, scrollwork, VERGE, Watch
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
18-CARAT GOLD OPEN-FACED LEVER WATCH - 18-CARAT GOLD HUNTING-CASED CENTRE-SECONDS LEVER WATCH - SILVER HUNTING-CASED VERGE WATCH
AN 18-CARAT GOLD OPEN-FACED LEVER
WATCH by Grinberg & Reighmann, 6 Western Road, Brighton, the three-quarter plate movement with compensa¬tion balance and gold cuvette, the dial also signed and with subsidiary
seconds, 48mm, hallmarked 1879.
AN 18-CARAT GOLD OPEN-FACED FREE-SPRUNG KEYLESS LEVER [...]
Tags: 18 carat gold, 40mm, A SILVER HUNTING-CASED, arabic numerals, CARAT, CENTRE-SECONDS, clerkenwell london, duke street, FREE-SPRUNG, gold chain, GOOD, HALF-HUNTING-CASED, hornby, hunting, LEVER, lever watch, Liverpool, micrometer, OPEN-FACED, quarter plate, Ring, signature, silver, SILVER HUNTING-CASED, SILVER PAIR-CASED, spring, waltham mass
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
REPEATING BRASS CARRIAGE CLOCK - BRASS CARRIAGE TIMEPIECE - I8-CARAT GOLD OPEN-FACED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH - GOLD HUNTING-CASED KEYLESS LEVER WATCH
A GILT-BRONZE AND ELECTROTYPE HOUR-REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK, the dial
with a silvered chapter ring signed Crouch & Son, the front plate with birds amongst birds and flowering stem, the sides with conforming panels, divided by Corinthian [...]
Tags: 18 carat gold, amp, Anglaise, arabic numerals, backplate, bered, CARAT, CARRIAGE, carriage clock, case c, chain, Clock, compensation, corinthian capitals, corinthian columns, Corniche, Crouch, CYLINDER, edinburgh, ELECTROTYPE, ENAMEL, escapement, Fernier, GILT-BRASS, GILT-BRONZE, half-hour, HALF-HOUR-REPEATING, HALF-HUNTING-CASED, KEYLESS, LEVER, lever escapement, lever watch, Liverpool, LOUIS, micrometer, morocco, morocco leather, OPEN-FACED, plate, REPEATING, Ring, Roman, roman numerals, stem, timepiece
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
AN EARLY ELECTRIC CLOCK - BRASS LANTERN CLOCK - CHAIN FUSEE MANTEL CLOCK - SMALL REPEATING EBONISED BRACKET CLOCK
AN IRISH MAHOGANY ‘REGULATOR’, the
circular 13in dial signed Jameson, Dublin, the movement with anchor escapement and hour striking, in an arched case with an arched bevelled glazed waist door, 77in; 195.5cm,
with pendulum, winder and two weights, 1820/1840.
AN [...]
Tags: ALABASTER, Arabic, bered, BRACKET, brass lantern, chain, CHIMING, circular base, classical motifs, clock chain, clock movement, EBONISED, ELECTRIC, electric clock, ENAMEL, enamel dial, fusee, GILT-SPELTER, LANTERN, LONGCASE, MAHOGANY, MANTEL, Mantel Clock, Mercury, PORCELAIN, porcelain dial, rectangular case, REGULATOR, roman numerals, spelter, St Michael, time piece, timepiece, W. Mitchell, WHITE
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
GILT-BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK - BURR-WALNUT ‘LOUIS XV’ MANTEL CLOCK - GERMAN OAK BRACKET CLOCK - CHIMING BRACKET CLOCK
A GILT-BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, the dial
with roman numerals in a drum case flanked by a figure of a woman playing with two doves, 24cm, c. 1880.
A BRASS STRUT TIMEPIECE, the dial with arabic numerals, the case pierced and [...]
Tags: Arabic, arabic numerals, bered, BRACKET, bracket clock, BRASS, bronze clock, BURR-WALNUT, CHARLES XSIENA, CHIMING, Clock, Dial, dorne, ENAMEL, four pillars, GARNITURE, GERMAN, german oak, GILT-BRONZE, GILT-SPELTER, glass, lambrequin, LOUIS, louis xv, MANTEL, Mantel Clock, Marble, ment, mourey, OAK, pendulum, putti, rectangular case, Ring, ROCOCO, roman numerals, spandrels, suspension, timepiece, twist, VIENNA, WALL
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
REGENCE GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET TIMEPIECE - OAK LONGCASE CLOCK - GILT-SPELTER MANTEL CLOCK - GILT-SPELTER MANTEL CLOCK
A SMALL REGENCE GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET TIMEPIECE, the
chased gilt dial with blue enamel numerals and a plaque below VI signed CDG Mesnil A
Paris, the similarly signed movement with shaped plates and later escapement, in an
arched straight-sided case inlaid with [...]
Tags: Arabic, arabic numerals, boulle, BRACKET, bracket clock, cherub, Clock, Dial, ENAMEL, enamel dial, female mask, FIGURE, foliage, GERMAN, gilt dial, GILT-BRONZE, GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED, GILT-SPELTER, LANTERN, LONGCASE, louis xv, MANTEL, Mantel Clock, OAK, peacock, rectangular plates, REGENCE, sided case, SMALL, spandrels, Thomas Pearce, timepiece, UNUSUAL, WOOD, Yellow
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
GILT-BRONZE AND PORCELAIN CLOCK - BRASS CLOCK GARNITURE - GILT-BRONZE MANTEL TIMEPIECE - GILT-BRONZE AND EBONISED WOOD MANTEL CLOCK
A GILT-BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, the
enamel dial with roman numerals and open brocot escapement, suspended in a bevel-glazed case cast with ‘C scrolls and foliage, 15in; 38cm, c. 1870.
A GILT-BRONZE AND PORCELAIN CLOCK
GARNITURE, the dial with arabic
numerals painted [...]
Tags: arabic numerals, boulle, brass clock, CALENDAR, calendar clock, Candelabra, clignancourt, Clock, Dial, EBONISED, emu eggs, ENAMEL, floral swags, four pillars, GARNITURE, GILT-BRONZE, leaf cast, MANTEL, Mantel Clock, panel, pendulum, PORCELAIN, roman numerals, sconce, SUpported, timepiece, WOOD
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
WOOD LYRE MANTEL CLOCK - GILT-SPELTER AND PORCELAIN CLOCK - BOULLE TIMEPIECE - GILT-BRONZE AND MARBLE EMPIRE MANTEL CLOCK - GILT-BRASS MANTEL CLOCK
A GILT-SPELTER AND PORCELAIN CLOCK
GARNITURE, the dial painted with
roman numerals above a panel of a
young couple fishing at the edge of a
river, the sides with panels painted
with birds, the case hung with swags [...]
Tags: boulle, bronze mounts, cherub, Clock, CLOCKS, domes, fiowers, floral scrolls, GARNITURE, GILT-BRONZE, GILT-SPELTER, GOOD, inlaid, lyre, MANTEL, Marble, moulded case, Pair, panel, pendulum, PORCELAIN, river, second empire, sir john bennett, spelter, swags, timepiece, Urns, VERGE, wall clock, WOOD, WOOD LYRE
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
EBONISED MANTEL TIMEPIECE - GILT-SPELTER AND ALABASTER MANTEL - GILT-SPELTER MANTEL CLOCK - EBONISED WOOD AND BOULLE MANTEL CLOCK
AN EBONISED MANTEL TIMEPIECE, the
movement stamped 822/5-2, supported by four twist-tumed columns, the plinth and cresting inlaid with foliage, now in a glazed case, surmounted by an eagle, 23 by llfin; 58.5 by
28.5cm, with bi-metallic silvered pendulum, [...]
Tags: ALABASTER, arabic numerals, automaton, BRONZE, Candelabra, CARRIAGE, Clock, EBONISED, ENAMEL, FIGURE, fiowers, GARNITURE, GILT-BRONZE, GILT-SPELTER, Gustaf Undien, honi soit qui mal y pense, MANTEL, Mantel Clock, paw feet, pendulum, Pin, PORCELAIN, roman numerals, timepiece, turrets, two dolphins, water wheel, weather vane, WHITE, WOOD
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