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A fine late 19th century gilt brass grande sonnerie striking and repeating giant carriage clock Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London. The movement stamped GL and numbered 1928.
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,750 inc. premium
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A fine late 19th century gilt brass grande sonnerie striking and repeating giant carriage clock
Dent, 33 Cockspur Street, London. The movement stamped GL and numbered 1928.
the giant case surmounted by a folding handle with ribbed central section over a large bevelled glass panel and beaded cornice, the glazed sides set within canted and ribbed corners on a stepped plinth base, the arched one-piece silvered Roman dial with blued steel hands and minute divisions within an engraved foliate scroll mask, the large rectangular movement with twin barrels and large silvered platform supporting the engraved cock to a cut and compensated bimetallic balance with English lever escapement, striking and repeating the hours and quarters on a pair of coiled blued steel gongs, the backplate stamped GL within an oval cartouche and again 'Patent Surety Roller', numbered 1928, the underside of the case set with a three-position selection lever engraved for 'Silent', 'Quarters only' and 'Hours and quarters' 26.5cms (10ins) high.
the giant case surmounted by a folding handle with ribbed central section over a large bevelled glass panel and beaded cornice, the glazed sides set within canted and ribbed corners on a stepped plinth base, the arched one-piece silvered Roman dial with blued steel hands and minute divisions within an engraved foliate scroll mask, the large rectangular movement with twin barrels and large silvered platform supporting the engraved cock to a cut and compensated bimetallic balance with English lever escapement, striking and repeating the hours and quarters on a pair of coiled blued steel gongs, the backplate stamped GL within an oval cartouche and again 'Patent Surety Roller', numbered 1928, the underside of the case set with a three-position selection lever engraved for 'Silent', 'Quarters only' and 'Hours and quarters' 26.5cms (10ins) high.
Footnotes
G.L. is the mark of E.G. Lamaille of Paris and London. Allix and Bonnert (Carriage Clocks, ACC 1974, page 443) reveal that Gay, Lamaille and Co. were mentioned in the Horological Journal of March 1880 in relation to securing a patent for an improved star-wheel invented by Moritz Immisch. They were based on the Farringdon Road.
It is recorded that Dent bought movements in from time to time - Roberts illustrates a twin fusee example, number 32571 supplied by Nicole Nielsen in 1903 in 'Carriage and other Travelling Clocks', Schiffer 1993, figure 21-21. Like the current example, the ribbed sections on the front corners of number 32571 run upwards to past III and IX. Payne and Company also produced a variant of this style of case, but of the two illustrated in Roberts, one has stepped ribs and the other set of ribs stop lower down in relation to the dial, nearer to IIII and VIII.
A similar example by Frodsham, number 2042, was sold in these rooms 10th December 2014 lot 139.