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 | English Carriage Clock c1850
A small English gilt carriage clock, with subsidiary dials for day and date, and striking the hours and half hours on a gong.
Case height 6¼ inches including handle.
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 | Satinwood Timepiece c1850
A very small, mid 19th century 8-day English timepiece with engraved and silvered dial and satinwood case.
This most attractive timepiece is only 7½ inches high.
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 | Brockbank & Atkins, London c1835
A small 2-day marine chronometer signed on the 3¼-inch silvered dial Brockbank & Atkins London No. 1172.
The instrument is in its original 3-tier mahogany box complete with its original ratchet winding key. |
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 | Robert Wood, London c1790
An English mahogany 8-day bracket clock with 3-pad top, signed on the engraved and silvered dial Robt. Wood London.
The case is 16¾ inches high including the handle (14¾ inches without handle).
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 | Round Glass Dome
A round glass dome of relatively recent manufacture. This dome will fit the most common design of Thomas Cole tripod clock.
Height: 48.6 cm
Outside Diameter: 21.7 cm
Wall thickness: 1 mm
The dome is in good condition.
Price: SOLD
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 | Curta Calculator Type I c1968
A type I Curta calculator, complete with its original plastic canister case.
The underside of the Curta is marked System Curt Herzstark Made in Liechtenstein by Contina AG Mauren Type I No 72207.
The two essential operating manuals (Your Curta Calculator and Computing Examples for the Curta Calcutating Machine) can be downloaded from the web at:
www.curtamania.com/curta/code/curta_manuals.html
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 | Curta Calculator Type II c1967
A type II Curta calculator, complete with its original plastic canister case.
The underside of the Curta is marked Type II No 544342 Made in Liechtenstein (Customs Union with Switzerland) by Contina Ltd Mauren System Curt Herzstark.
The calculator is sold with its original two Curta instruction manuals and original cardboard box. |
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 | Thomas Jump c1800
A rare clockmaker's sector, made circa 1800, engraved on the movable arm T. Jump. Thomas Jump worked in Prescot, Lancashire.
The sector is 17½ inches long and made of brass. |
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 | M. F. Dent, London c1905
A fine 8-day marine chronometer in its original 3-tier mahogany box, signed on the silvered dial M. F. Dent, 34 Cockspur St. Chronometer Maker to the King. London. 31231.
The chronometer is complete with its mahogany outer deck box and winding key.
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 | Grimalde & Johnson, Strand, London c1815
A small Regency bracket clock signed on the 7-inch painted dial Grimalde & Johnson Strand London.
The clock strikes the hours on a bell and has a strike/silent feature on the backplate.
Case height 14 inches.
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 | Robert William Dutton, London c1850
A mahogany drop dial wall timepiece, signed on the 12-inch diameter silvered dial Dutton Fleet Street.
The mahogany and mahogany veneered round-bottomed case has a lockable door at the bottom and two side doors for access to the pendulum.
Case height 17 inches, case diameter 14½ inches.
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 | Richard Webster, Cornhill, London c1820
A classic example of Regency period Gothic - a mahogany lancet top bracket clock with fine brass inlays.
The clock movement was made by the respected partnership of Handley and Moore who specialized in making bracket clock movements for the trade in Regency London.
Height: 18½ inches.
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 | Curta Calculator Type II c1970
A type II Curta calculator, complete with its original plastic canister case.
The underside of the Curta is marked Type II No 555400 Made in Liechtenstein (Customs Union with Switzerland) by Contina Ltd Mauren System Curt Herzstark.
The calculator is sold with its original two Curta instruction manuals, Curta square root tables, and original cardboard box. |
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 | Thomas Jump, Prescot c1800
A rare clockmaker's sector, made circa 1800, engraved on the movable arm T. Jump Prescot.
The sector is 14 inches long and made of patinated brass. The pinion sizing section of the scale is graduated 6,7,8,10, 12, 14, 16; the wheel sizing scale is graduated from 20 to 110 at one unit intervals.
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 | J.B. Dancer, Manchester c1860
A scientific barometer on the Fortin principle signed on the silvered scale J.B. Dancer, Optician, Manchester No. 282.
The instrument has a black painted tube with a thermometer mounted on the front.
The barometer scale reads from 27 to 32.5 inches of mercury, the thermometer scale from 25 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
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 | Jonathan Lowndes, London c1695
An ebony veneered bracket timepiece with pull quarter repeat on two bells, signed on the dial plate J Lowndes London.
The 5-pillar movement (centre pillar latched) has a single fusee with (replaced) verge escapement.
Clock case height 16 inches, including handle.
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 | Hamilton Watch Co. c1943
A fine 2-day marine chronometer in its original mahogany box, signed on the silvered dial Hamilton Lancaster, PA., U.S.A. N1484 1941.
The chronometer has subsidiary dials for seconds and state of wind with blued steel hour and minute hands.
The chronometer is complete with its original numbered ratchet winding key. |
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 | J. A. Reynolds & Co., Birmingham
An early 20th century set of nickel alloy, steel and ivory drawing instruments by the English manufacturer J. A. Reynolds & Co. Limited, Birmingham.
The instruments are housed in their original burr walnut box with lift out tray. |
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 | E. Dent & Co., London c1870
A small brass cased ship's bulkhead timepiece signed on the white painted dial E. Dent & Co. 61 Strand & 34 Royal Exchange London 1944 .
The clock has a 5-inch diameter polished brass case with opening glass bezel and silvered sight ring. The white painted dial, 4 inches in diameter, has a regulation lever at 12 o'clock and brass hands. |
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 | Mahogany Card Table c1785
A George III serpentine fronted, mahogany and mahogany veneered card table with mahogany crossbanding, and ebony and boxwood stringing to the top and frieze.
The folding top stands on tapering and moulded mahogany legs with inlaid oval decoration to the top, the rear legs swing out to support the top when open.
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