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A rare and interesting late 17th century month-going longcase clock with one-and-a-quarter seconds pendulum and half-hour passing strike The movement and dial by Thomas Tompion, London, un-numbered, the associated case late 17th century
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8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £43,750 inc. premium
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A rare and interesting late 17th century month-going longcase clock with one-and-a-quarter seconds pendulum and half-hour passing strike
The movement and dial by Thomas Tompion, London, un-numbered, the associated case late 17th century
the ten inch square brass dial with engraved double wheat-ear border enclosing the signature "Tho. Tompion, Londini fe:" along the lower edge and framing the winged cherubs head spandrels and silvered Roman chapter ring with outer minute band engraved with Arabic five minutes, with elaborate trident half hour marks and inner quarter hour track, the finely matted centre with slim subsidiary seconds ring calibrated with forty eight divisions, and chamfered date aperture with pin-hole adjustment, secured via four latched dial feet to the weight driven movement with tall rectangular plates united by seven knopped, finned and latched pillars, the trains reversed; the strike with count wheel mounted high on the backplate striking once on a small bell on the half hour and the full hour on a larger bell, each bell mounted on an upright steel stand set into the top of a four-sided brass cover, the going train with maintaining power and deadbeat escapement, regulation carried out by rotating a blued steel hand on a I-XII dial set to the side of the plates linked to an endless screw acting on a pivoted rack to raise or lower the 61 inch pendulum with long crutch and a backplate cut for the anchor, now contained in a walnut case of similar period, the rising hood with overhanging cornice on a sound fret set on twist-turned columns to a convex throat moulding over a long door and panelled base and bun feet 189cms (6ft 2ins) high
the ten inch square brass dial with engraved double wheat-ear border enclosing the signature "Tho. Tompion, Londini fe:" along the lower edge and framing the winged cherubs head spandrels and silvered Roman chapter ring with outer minute band engraved with Arabic five minutes, with elaborate trident half hour marks and inner quarter hour track, the finely matted centre with slim subsidiary seconds ring calibrated with forty eight divisions, and chamfered date aperture with pin-hole adjustment, secured via four latched dial feet to the weight driven movement with tall rectangular plates united by seven knopped, finned and latched pillars, the trains reversed; the strike with count wheel mounted high on the backplate striking once on a small bell on the half hour and the full hour on a larger bell, each bell mounted on an upright steel stand set into the top of a four-sided brass cover, the going train with maintaining power and deadbeat escapement, regulation carried out by rotating a blued steel hand on a I-XII dial set to the side of the plates linked to an endless screw acting on a pivoted rack to raise or lower the 61 inch pendulum with long crutch and a backplate cut for the anchor, now contained in a walnut case of similar period, the rising hood with overhanging cornice on a sound fret set on twist-turned columns to a convex throat moulding over a long door and panelled base and bun feet 189cms (6ft 2ins) high
Saleroom notices
Please note: This clock was the personal property of Mr Charles Drover, co-author of the standard reference work 'Early English Clocks' published by the Antique Collectors Club, 1982. It has come directly from his home where it was running and striking for over 50 years. The clock is recorded in 'Thomas Tompion 300 years' by Evans, Carter and Wright as item 10 in the list 'Un-numbered month longcase clocks'.