A VICTORIAN ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE STRUT CLOCK WITH MANUAL MONTHLY CALENDAR

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A VICTORIAN ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE STRUT CLOCK WITH MANUAL MONTHLY CALENDAR

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS COLE, RETAILED BY C.F. HANCOCK, LONDON. MID-19TH CENTURY

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A VICTORIAN ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE STRUT CLOCK WITH MANUAL MONTHLY CALENDAR
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS COLE, RETAILED BY C.F. HANCOCK, LONDON. MID-19TH CENTURY
CASE: folding handle, sprung strut to rear and sprung foot to underside, inside rear cover signed 'C.F.HANCOCK/a Successor of/STORR & MORTIMER/39 BRUTON STREET/London' DIAL: silvered and engraved, painted chapters, day of week drum key-adjusted from underside, blued steel fleur-de-lys hands MOVEMENT: spring barrel, monometallic three-arm lever balance; original brown leather travel case with repeat 'Hancock' retail signature; original engraved gilt-brass key
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, handle down; 4 in. (10 cm.) wide; 3/4 in. (2 cm.) deep

来源

According to family repute, acquired at or shortly after the Great Exhibition (1851) by Henry and Caroline Baker, Henry being the son of the London architect Sir Robert Baker. Thence by family descent.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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A strut timepiece with manual calendar of related design, also retailed by Hancock, was sold Christie's London,13 December 2000, lot 59 (£5,640). J.B. Hawkins (Thomas Cole & Victorian Clockmaking, Sydney, 1975) illustrates Cole calendar strut clocks of related design, including an example retailed by Hancock (pp. 62-63). The handle of the present clock is particularly unusual, contrasting with the loop design found on most strut clocks. Although lacking a Cole number or 'secret signature' the present clock is almost certainly Cole's work and falls into the 'pre-numbered' category described by Hawkins (p. 46) when discussing a similar clock.