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13 July 2023 | starting at 14:00 BST
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A fine and rare late 18th century Chinese Imperial tribute paste-set ormolu and white marble quarter striking, centre seconds 'Double Gourd' table clockA fine and rare late 18th century Chinese Imperial tribute paste-set ormolu and white marble quarter striking, centre seconds 'Double Gourd' table clock. Sold for £229,000 inc. premium
A unique and very fine mid 19th century English gilt-brass mounted walnut giant striking travelling clock with thermometer and original key numbered 838 Attributable to Thomas Cole, London. Retailed by Thomas Boxell, BrightonA unique and very fine mid 19th century English gilt-brass mounted walnut giant striking travelling clock with thermometer and original key numbered 838 Attributable to Thomas Cole, London. Retailed by Thomas Boxell, Brighton. Sold for £32,000 inc. premium
A very fine and rare early 19th century ormolu-mounted red marble mantel timepiece with original numbered pendulum Vulliamy, London, No. 518A very fine and rare early 19th century ormolu-mounted red marble mantel timepiece with original numbered pendulum Vulliamy, London, No. 518. Sold for £23,040 inc. premium

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A fine late 17th century olivewood marquetry eight day longcase clock with ten inch dial Christopher Gould, London
A late 17th century walnut and marquetry longcase clock with 10.25 inch square brass dial Brounker Watts, London
A good 19th century rosewood four glass timepiece Molyneux, 42 Lombard St., London
A good small mid 19th century brass bound and inlaid ebony timepiece Edward Simmons
A fine early 19th century brass-bound ebony mantel timepiece Grimalde and Johnson, Strand, London
A mid 19th century ebonised travelling clock with soft/loud striking option Blundell, London, No. 2687
A late 17th century walnut marquetry inlaid longcase clock William Clarke, London
An early 18th Century walnut longcase clock William Trippett, London
An early 18th century walnut longcase clock Stephen Asselin, London
A small late 18th century mahogany regulator of one month duration James Bullock, London
A late 17th century walnut longcase clock with 10 inch dial, bolt-and-shutter maintaining power and green-stained inlay Robert Seignior , London
A rare late 18th century figured mahogany longcase clock with high tide and calendar indication Kenyon, Liverpool
An extremely rare late 18th century mahogany longcase clock with enamel dial Samuel Clare, Warrington
A fine late 18th century mahogany longcase clock with age and phases of the moon, and concentric date H. Deward, Widnes
A good late 19th century English striking skeleton clock with annual calendar and High Water indication Unsigned, possibly by John Moore and Sons, London 2
A rare and impressive mid 19th century brass quarter striking skeleton clock in the form of St Paul's Cathedral, with deadbeat escapement, twin-jar mercury pendulum and wheels of six crossings, under a glass shade Attributable to Smiths of Clerkenwell. 2
A rare mid 18th century mahogany stick barometer F. Watkins, London
A good late 18th century ebony inlaid mahogany bow fronted stick barometer Troughton, London
A good early 19th century mahogany bow fronted stick barometer Dollond, London
A fine late 18th century mahogany stick barometer T Blunt, London
A good and rare late 18th century mahogany stick barometer Dollond, London
A good late 18th century ebonised single pad top table clock Edward Bird, Bristol
A second half of the 18th century ebonised table clock Nathaniel Sergeant, London
A good late 18th century mahogany wall timepiece Thomas Button, Hitchin
A good late 18th century small mahogany wall timepiece with verge escapement Thomas Martin, Royal Exchange, London
A good early 19th century flame mahogany stick barometer Barrauds, London
A very rare late 18th century figured mahogany inverted wheel barometer and matching thermometer Joshua Long, 20, Little Tower Street, London 2
A rare mid 18th century mahogany stick barometer Heath & Wing, London
A rare early 19th century mahogany signpost barometer L. Bellatti, Grantham
A good second quarter of the 19th century brass inlaid mahogany table clock R. Dawes, Southampton
A mid to late 18th century ebonised table clock Clement Brotherton, London
A late 18th century wall timepiece Johnson, Grays Inn, Passage
A rare late 18th century mahogany wall timepiece of small size with verge escapement G. Staples, London
A walnut veneered table clock, 18th century and later Jacob Massey, London
A very rare late 17th century ebony veneered basket top table clock case
A late 17th and later ebonised basket top table clock Daniel Parker, Londini
An early 19th century patinated and gilt bronze mantel timepiece John Beckett, London
A mahogany wall timepiece Thomas Bowen, London
A good and rare late 18th century mahogany drop dial timepiece Matthew and Thomas Dutton, London
A late 18th century mahogany wall timepiece with verge escapement Gabriel Fowkes, Dartford
George Margetts (1748-1804). A late 18th century book of tables. Margetts's Longitude Tables; For Correcting the Effect of Parallax and Refraction, on the Observed Distance Taken Between the Moon and the Sun, or a Fixed Star whereby the True Distance is Accurately Obtained and the Corresponding Time at Greenwich Ascertained found by Inspection.
A good late 19th Century brass-strung coromandel two-day marine chronometer Thomas Russell & Son, London & Liverpool, No. 2246
A fine and rare early 19th century mahogany eight day duration marine chronometer Morris Tobias, 31, Minories, London, No. 326
A mid 19th century mahogany two day marine chronometer Henry Frodsham, Castle Street, Liverpool, No. 2130
A good mid 19th century eight-day brass-bound mahogany marine chronometer Abraham Jackson, Liverpool. No. 164/9229),
A very rare and historically interesting late 19th century two-day marine chronometer movement that took part in Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition from July 1907 to September 1909. Now mounted in a mahogany mantel case. R. Gardner,20 Lloyd Square, London W.C. Stamped with the Admiralty arrow and'I 1920', No. 5/4186
An extremely rare and fine mid-19th century brass-bound rosewood two-day marine chronometer with Hartnup balance. Previously with the Time Museum, and more recently exhibited at Prescot Museum William B Crisp, London, Number 381
A mid-20th century mahogany two-day marine chronometer with Admiralty history of WWII use, and four related books Thomas Mercer Eywood Road, St. Albans, No. 15684
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