The Edwin Dean Collection of Important English and European Pocket Watches

The Norman Dean Collection of Important English and European Pocket Watches

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The Norman Dean Collection of Important English and European Pocket Watches

TIMED ONLINE AUCTION

Closing Tuesday 22 October 2024 from 5.58pm

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Norman Arthur Clayton Dean O.A.M., E.D.

25/7/1918 – 8/12/2013

Norman Dean was born in Goondiwindi, Queensland on the 25th of July 1918.

Norman went to Cleveland State School but left at the age of 14 years to help his father who ran a general store and real estate agency. He started off delivering groceries in a cart drawn by 2 horses, “Comet” and “Rocket”, but graduated fairly quickly to a model T Ford truck. Perhaps he should have stayed with the horses and cart because he ended up crashing the model T through the fence and onto the railway line, breaking his arm in the process.

In 1938 he was playing cricket with his mates on the footpath outside “Callandoon” when a car pulled up and an army officer in uniform stepped out of the vehicle. The officer said to the young men that they should join the militia, which Norman promptly did. When war against Germany broke out in 1939, he was sent as part of a detachment to Moreton Island to guard the overseas cable linking Brisbane to the outside world as it had come under attack by saboteurs in World War 1.

Norman married Ethel Phillips in October 1940 and that was the year he enlisted in the A.I.F. and joined the 2nd 26th Battalion. He was sent to Officers’ School, promoted to lieutenant, and trained for desert warfare in the cold of Bathurst, only to be sent to Malaya to be deployed in the jungle. He saw action on the Malay Peninsula and at Singapore, and was taken prisoner when Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942.

Along with other members of his Battalion Norman was imprisoned at Changi and was later sent as part of F Force to Thailand to work on the Burma Railway. He didn’t dwell on the atrocities he and his mates suffered as prisoners, but he would say it was his faith that sustained him while he was a prisoner.

On his return to Australia, he went into partnership with his father as an auctioneer, valuer and commission agent. Unfortunately, his father died 6 months after Norman’s returned from the war.

In 1987 Norman became a Paul Harris Fellow for his work in Rotary and in that same year he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for his service to the community.

During his working life he was a member of the Queensland Real Estate Institute of Valuers and was later admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Valuers and was one of the few valuers at that time in Australia qualified to value museum collections.

It is not clear when Norman started to collect pocket watches. His grandfather James Dean gave him a keywind, silver hunter in 1939; his mother Ethel brought him back a French marble and bronze mantel clock on her return from her “grand tour” of Europe in 1953, and perhaps that was the start of it.

In 1970 Norman went to England and he began to significantly extend his watch collection. There he met the renowned horologist and leading dealer Terrence Camerer Cuss, with whom he was to form a strong

friendship in later years. Terrence became his mentor and helped Norman form a fine collection that is made up primarily of watches of English origin, tracing the development of watches from pre-balance spring days to the much more accurate timekeepers of the later 19th century.

Although Norman had little formal education, he was an avid reader. He subscribed to the Antiquarian Horological Society’s quarterly journals and would pore over them when they arrived in the mail; they would all be marked with post-it notes whenever he found articles of interest. He bought books that related to particular makers whose watches were included in his collection, and books on all sorts of matters horological. In this way his knowledge of makers, of mechanisms, of styles and periods was encyclopaedic, especially for a layman.

Norman lived his life as a kind, caring, generous man with a quite unassuming nature who had a great love for his family and also great enthusiasm for his passion.

A rare silver cast case pocket watch, maker Benjamin Hill, English, circa 1650

4.7cm diameter, 5.5cm high

This watch has a cast case in the form of the seeded Rose, watches with cast cases are quite rare.

The movement is typical of the period, having a pinned-on balance cock, worm and wheel set-up, engraved potence and narrow Egyptian pillars. The dial is silver, the centre beautifully engraved with a Tudor rose, surrounded by fine matting. The bezel is a fairly early example of the split variety for retaining the glass.

This watch, like the other Benjamin Hill watch, was made before the invention of the balance spring and the balance cock has been designed for a watch with no balance spring. Fusee and gut drive and steel balance wheel.

The case of the watch has been modified at some time to allow the movement to be wound through the case, and a shutter to keep out dust has been fitted to it (shown closed).

Benjamin Hill was apprenticed to Richard Child through the Blacksmiths Company for 8 years on the 3rd July 1632 and was 'sworn a free brother' of the Clockmakers Company on 30th November 1640 and was Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1657. He died early in 1670 and was buried at St Dunstan's-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London where it appears he has been Senior Churchwarden.

REFERENCE

Jeremy Evans article in the A H S Journal March 2001, at fig. 10, There is a Benjamin Hill watch apparently with a cast case, although in a different pattern.

ILLUSTRATED

Page 70 and 71 of Antique Watches.

PROVENANCE

Terence Camerer Cuss's own collection and was purchased in 1979 for 6,500 English Pounds.

For an extraordinary astronomical pocket watch by this maker see Sotheby's London The Celebration of the English Watch Part IV, George Daniels, 20th Century Innovator, 6 July 2017, Lot 3.

$4,000–8,000

An extraordinarily rare and important silver and gilt metal astronomical verge pocket watch by Robert Grinkin, English, circa 1635-40

5.5cm long, 3.7cm wide, 2.2cm high with green shagreen case

Robert Grinkin was master of the Blacksmiths Company in 1609 and Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1648 (the Clockmakers Company was formed in 1631). An early London Watchmaker, with examples of his work held in many museums and private collections.

The verge movement has a silver balance cock but is otherwise fairly typical of the period with a tangent screw set up to adjust the rate of going. It has a long fusee with gut drive, and was made before the balance of spring.

This watch shows astronomical as well as astrological indicators, the former now being considered more desirable by collectors, but astrology was of great significance when the watch was made.

The inner silver ring of the upper dial represents the approximate dates on which the various signs of the Zodiac commence according to the old style calendar. The calendar changed in 1752. The signs of the Zodiac are shown on the ring next to the dates.

The circle of figures above the signs are approximate sunset times for the months sown in the circle above. The apertures on the right give the age of the moon, the moon phase and the time of the moonrise.

The outermost circle gives the date. The blued steel indicator is pointing to the fifth.

The aperture on the left gives the day of the week and the sign of the day. The Allegorical figures are the planetary divinities that governed the day of the week according to the Ancients. They are represented as follows:

Sunday Apollo

Monday Diana (Artemis)

Tuesday Mars

Wednesday Mercury

Thursday Jupiter

Friday Venus

Saturday Saturn

REFERENCE

Illustrated on the front cover of the 'A H S Journal' No. 12 Vol 3, September 1962 and in 'Antique Watches' page 62.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Camerer Cuss & Co in 1974 for 6,500 Pounds ($10,400). For a relatable circular astronomical watch by Henricus Harper, London, circa 1670 see Bonhams New York 17 December 2009, Lot 12 which sold for US$35,500.

In their footnote they refer to this watch: This watch belongs to a small group of pre balance spring English watches, all of which incorporate a similar year calendar display with concentric date and month indications, flanked by day of the week and lunar apertures. Similar calendar work can be found on slightly earlier French watches made during the first quarter of the 17th century. Although the watches seem to differ only in detail, no single watchmaker can be associated with them. Virtually all are signed by different makers. The earliest appears to be an oval silver watch by Robert Grinkin, Jr. (free 1632) which indicates the times of sunset rather than sunrise (Camerer Cuss Collection). Another, by Nathaniel Barrow (free 1660) has a Gregorian calendar and a movement that appears to have been modernized late in the 17th century. (Collection of the Clockmakers Company).

The design of the calendar as an attachment and its similarity to others by diverse makers suggests that the calendar plate was the work of a specialist and supplied to watchmakers as needed. Instrument making and clock making were allied trades and were closely associated through shared apprentices.

See: Brown, Joyce (1979) 'Guild organization and the instrument-making trade, 1550-1830: the Grocers' and Clockmakers' Companies', Annals of Science, 36:1 pp 1-34.

Similar watches can be found in the following publications. [Makers noted in square brackets]

Camerer Cuss, T. A.: Antique Watches. Woodbridge: Antique Collector's Club (1976) [Robert Grinkin Jr.]

Clutton, Cecil and George Daniels. Clocks & Watches in the Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, (1975) [Nathaniel Barrow, James Nellson, not illustrated, see Jagger below]

Clutton, Cecil and George Daniels. Watches, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, (1979) [Benjamin Hill, Marryat Collection]

Gèlis, Edouard. L'horlogerie Ancienne. Paris: Librairie Gr¸nd (1949) [Benjamin Wolverstone]

[Gschwind Collection] [Bull, Simon] French Watches 1580 -1680. Geneva: Musée d'Horlogerie et d'Emaillerie. (1983) [Ballard ‡ Bourges]

Guye, Samuel and Henri Michel. Time and Space: Measuring Instruments from the 15th to the 19th Century. New York: Praeger (1971) [Ballard ‡ Bourges, Christophe Piron ‡ Blois]

Jagger, Cedric. The Artistry of the English Watch. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle (1988) [Nathaniel Barrow, James Nellson, illustrated]

Marryat, H. Watches, vol 1, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Henlein to Tompion. London (1938) [Benjamin Hill, Marryat Collection]

Ullyett, Kenneth. British Clocks and Clockmakers. London: Collins (1947), [Benjamin Hill British Museum Collection]

$10,000–20,000

A very rare silver pair cased pocket watch, maker Benjamin Hill, English, circa 1650

5.7cm high, 5cm diameter

The watch has a silver dial centred with an English Rose that would have filled with red wax. The double ended hour hand ensures that it can be moved easily to set the time. The watch has a verge movement with fusee and gut drive, made before the invention of the balance spring. It has a tangent screw regulator.

The name "Puritan" merely refers to the simplicity of the watch's appearance, in character with puritan austerity.

Benjamin Hill was apprenticed to Richard Child through the Blacksmiths Company for 8 years on the 3rd July 1632 and was 'sworn a free brother' of the Clockmakers Company on 30th November 1640 and was Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1657. He died early in 1670 and was buried at St Dunstan's-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London where it appears he has been Senior Churchwarden.

Represented with watches in the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum.

Illustrated Britten, and Clutton & Daniels. Noted as a fine maker. Similar watches by Benjamin Hill are illustrated in an article by Jeremy Evans in the March 2001 volume of the A H S Journal.

For an extraordinary astronomical pocket watch by this maker see Sotheby's London The Celebration of the English Watch Part IV, George Daniels 20th Century Innovator, 6 July 2017 Lot 3

$4,000–8,000

A very rare wandering-hour pocket watch, maker William Knottesford, English, circa 1670 4cm diameter, 4.7cm high, case diameter 5cm Gold "wandering hour watches are most unusual, particularly when they come from the period prior to the introduction of the balance spring. In a letter to Norman dated 24/7/1984 Terence Camerer Cuss says about this watch "It is exceptionally early for a wandering hour and maybe is the earliest".

The gold dial of this example shows Diana in her grotto; Diana's nymphs were expected to be as chaste as the goddess herself. One of them, Callisto, was seduced by Jupiter who first disguised himself as Diana in order to gain the nymphs presence. Diana confronts Callisto, pointing accusingly. Callisto, her robes drawn back to show her unmistakable pregnancy, cringes in shame. The other nymphs register shame and disapproval.

The inner case and the decorative pins to the skin-covered outer case are also gold. The movement has a verge escapement, fusee with chain drive.

On the dial there are no conventional hands, but the hour of the day appears on a circular disc that moves around semi-circular aperture that has both the minutes and the quarters marked on seperate scales.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Terence Camerer Cuss in July 1984 for 11,000 Pounds ($17,500).

REFERENCE

William Knottesford was Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1693 and his watches appear in the collections of the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Guildhall.

Illustrated in "Early Watches" by T. P. Camerer Cuss (Terence's father).

See page 55 of Camerer Cuss & Co The Bicentenary 1788 - 1988, and it features in an article by Terence Camerer Cuss entitled "Watches with Unusual Dials" which appeared in The Antique Collector, October 1969.

$5,000–10,000

A rare silver paired-cased pocket watch, maker Joseph Windmills, English, circa 1678

4.5cm diameter, 5.5cm high, case diameter 5.2cm

Plain silver outer case, 52mm diameter, with early square hinge. The inner plain silver case has a stirrup bow, and split bezel. The silver champleve dial has Roman numerals, centred by a one-piece rosette, a finely shaped single hand, and a brass edge.

The movement bears a full signature and a balance cock with its table openly pieced (to show the newly introduced balance spring?) and decorated with an English rose centre and open Dutch tulips, and with decorated rim, with its foot very open but no longer oval in shape. The balance wheel is steel, three arm, with a spring of 1 1/2 - 1 3/4 turns.

Verge escapement with eight turn fusee and chain drive, and a spring barrel said to be of about the earliest date at which makers stopped flanging barrels at bottom as well as at top. The pillars are exotically scrolled open tulip style.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean at Sotheby's London 27 November 1972 for 800 Pounds (lot 216). One of only a very few watches to be illustrated and mentioned in the introduction to the catalogue.

REFERENCE

Britten lists Joseph Windmills as a great clockmaker who was made a brother of the Clockmakers Company in 1671 and Master in 1702, "well known as good maker clocks and watches". Neale in his book says "A minute book of the Clockmakers Company has the earliest mention of Joseph Windmills so far. At its Quarter Court meeting on 29 September 1671, 'Joseph Windmills a great clockmaker was admitted and sworn Brother of this Company....' His trade, year of entry and status in the Company was the same as that of Thomas Tompion and of Daniel Quare.... To be admitted in this way, not by a CC apprenticeship, implies that each of them was already free of some other Company, with some experience as a turret or church clock-maker. Their parent companies have not been identified".

A fine maker represented in major Museums and many collections. This watch is illustrated and discussed in J.A Neale's book 'Windmills Clocks and Watches', at pages 80 Neale said: "He knew of only one earlier Windmills Watch that is in the Watchmakers Collection in the London Guildhall."

$3,000–5,000

A rare differential dial pocket watch, maker Joseph Buckingham, English, circa 1690

4.6cm diameter, 6.2cm high, 5.3cm case diameter

This watch is an example of the very rare "differential dial" variety. The centre of the dial consists of a revolving disc with the Roman hour numerals one to twelve, which rotates at a speed 1/12th less than the single poker hand which indicate both hours and minutes. Outside this disc is a decorative band depicting military emblems and the maker's signature, the minute markings being on the extremity of the dial. The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain, and splendid tulip pillars. It also has a mock pendulum on the balance wheel, exposed by the cutaway balance cock which also bears military emblems. The style of the balance cock is very similar to the cock on the wandering hour watch by Abraham Fromanteel in the Norman Dean collection.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Terence Camerer Cuss 11th October 1982 for 2,100 Pounds.

REFERENCE

The silver repousse outer case depicting the "Triumph of Mars and Venus", with a motto "Amoris tela omnium querela", is quite unusual, but an identical case on another differential dial watch is illustrated at page 99 of Antique Watches.

Of passing interest is the fact that the signature on the dial (Bukinham) is different from the signature on the black-plate (Buckingham). Of more interest is the explanation of the "triumph of Mars and Venus" in Hall at page 200: Mars, the Roman god of war was one of the twelve Olympians. His brutal and aggressive nature made him hated by nearly everyone, including his parents Jupiter and Juno. The exception was Venus, who fell hopelessly in love with him. Here he is depicted as the warlike figure (wearing armour and a plumed helmet, with his hands chained) who is tamed by love (Venus, the goddess of love) as they ride together in the chariot, drawn by two lions, driven by Cupid and surrounded by amoretto.

REFERENCE

Joseph Buckingham is listed in Britten, 1690-1725.

$2,000–3,000

A rare silver-cased sun and moon pocket watch no. 340, maker Richard Baker, English, circa 1690

4.5cm diameter, 5.5cm high, 5.5cm case diameter

This watch is a variation on the "wandering hour" style. The silver dial has a semi-circular cut-out on the upper edge of which appear the hours marked with Roman numerals. A disc revolves within the cutout in the dial bearing either a sun pointing to the hour of the day or a moon pointing to the hour in the night. The minutes are told by a seperate minute hand which points to the minutes set out on the outer ring of the dial.

The watch has a plain silver inner case (or box) with a tortoiseshell outer case decorated with silver pique work, fitted with a stirrup bow. The box bears the case-maker's mark "W1", both Thomas Tompion and Daniel Delander used this case-maker.

The movement has a verge escapement with fusee and chain. The balance cock is round is rimmed and is also "winged": near the foot, decorative wings extend from the rim of the balance cock. The front plate and the back plate are held apart by tulip pillars.

Attached to the watch is a contemporary blacksmith-made chain.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean by Terence Camerer Cuss as agent at Sotheby's London 5/3/1981 for 2,600 English Pounds plus buyer's premium and Terence's commission making a total of 2,933 English Pounds.

REFERENCE

Richard Baker was first apprenticed to John Chatfield, a blacksmith, in 1680 and "turned over" to Richard Browne in 1683; free of the Clockmakers Company in 1685. He continued working until 1710.

$3,000–5,000

A fine silver cased pocket clock-watch, maker John Low, English, circa 1695

5cm dial diameter, 6cm case diameter, 6.4cm high

Hour striking clock-watch in a single silver consular style case. Silver champleve dial, half hour touch diamonds, signed "Low" in a cartouche above the centre and "London" in a cartouche below. Both cartouches surrounded by foliate scrolling. Inner ring with Roman hour numerals, outer ring with Arabic minute numerals.

The broad bezel is pierced with a foliate pattern and the sides of the back of the case are lightly chased with a similar foliate pattern and exotic birds. The case under the dial is pierced in a similar but narrower manner to the bezel. The piercing is to allow the sound as the watch strikes the hours (as a clock does, hence the name) to be heard.

The movement has two trains: the going train, which drives the hands, and the striking train which causes the watch to strike the hours on a steel bell housed inside the case. The going train has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive. The winged cock is pierced and engraved with a foliate pattern, and broad, engraved rim. The foot is similarly engraved, as is the fret around the regulator dial. Brass count wheel screwed to the backplate, which is signed "Low London". The table of the cock has a hole in the top left hand quadrant to allow the winding spindle of the going train to protrude through it. The striking train is wound by a spindle protruding through the backplate between the table and the foot. Tulip pillars, damaged fusee stop, pierced spring barrel for the striking train. Two-arm steel balance, using the winding spindle for the going train as a banking pin.

Note the early pivoted stirrup bow.

REFERENCE

John Low was admitted to the Clockmakers Company in 1672.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould in December 1972 for 450 Pounds.

$2,000–3,000

A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Daniel Quare, English, circa 1700

4.6cm diameter, 5.6cm high, 5.5cm case diameter

Silver pair cased watch, the outer case later, the inner quite plain. Silver champleve dial with Roman hour numerals on the outer chapter ring separated by touch diamonds for the half hour. The inner ring indicates the hours with dots, the quarters with lines and the half hours with fleur-de-lys. The single blued steel tulip hand shows the hours and the quarters, there is no minute hand and there are no minute markings on the dial.

The watch is signed "Quare" on a raised cartouche above the centre of dial surrounded by scrolls with a cherub's face above. The bottom half of the dial has a raised cartouche signed "London", with a shell below and a male sphinx to the left and a female sphinx to the right.

The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive. The winged balance cock is pierced and engraved with a foliate pattern and has an engraved rim. The squared foot is similarly pierced and engraved, as is the fret surrounding the regulator, but with an exotic bird's head pointing to the numbers on the regulator dial. The backplate is signed "Quare London".

REFERENCE

A Quare watch with very similar pillars and fusee stop is shown at illustration no's. 243-4 in Clutton & Daniels.

Quare was admitted as a brother of the Clockmakers Company in 1671, and was master in 1708. He was second to none in his day as a watchmaker, and his work is always handsomely proportioned. He was conservative in case design, keeping a loose fitting loop type pendant and square-ended hinges long after others has gone over to ringed pendants and curved hinges.

He is credited with the invention of the repeating mechanism for watches, and was a devout Quaker. He at first refused the appointment to the office of clockmaker to King George 1 because he objected to taking the oath of allegiance, but this was overcome by affording him freedom to enter the palace by the back stairs. Quare died in 1724.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean at Portobello Road Markets, London, in December 1972 for 600 Pounds.

$3,000–5,000

An exceptional and very rare gold clock-watch, no. 112, maker Daniel Delander, English, circa 1705

5cm diameter, 6cm high, 6cm case diameter

This watch is illustrated in colour plate 6 in Antique Watches where it is described as a "gold repousse, pair cased clock-watch" (number 112) [with] a verge escapement, an unusual solid cock table with early diamond endstone and a gold champleve dial of the highest quality. Note the finely engraved dust ring. (58mm. diam.)

Delander was a journeyman of Thomas Tompion's and this watch certainly bears his influence''. The date is given as circa 1710.

Kenneth Ullyet in his book at page 60 says:

"Some collectors believe that good horology doesn't need a fine case, but of course if you are lucky ... you may indeed find many watches which have top-quality movements in elaborate top-quality cases.

"An example, from the case-lover's point of view. is the Daniel Delander No.112, c. 1705 discovered by Michael Denton. This is an hour-striking clock-watch (with bell), and the gold pair case is a shallow, delicate example of outer-case repousse, depicting Susanna and the Elders. The borders have fine piercing, embossed scrolling, foliage, and dolphins set at intervals, and with the early square hinge. The inner case has borders with piercing and engraving, foliage, scrolls, with birds and squirrels, and a mask. There is a flower design in the centre, and the case has the early short pendant and loose ring. These in addition to case-hinge style and the sequence of Delander's numbering, help to date the watch. The dial is champleve matt gold, the chapter rings with Roman and Arabic numerals for hours and minutes, a central disc repousse with scrolls and a mask, and is signed "Delander, London".

Among the points of interest in the movement are the Egyptian pillars, and the verge escapement with an interesting early functional jewel to the balance. The balance is of steel curiously made with two arms on one side, counter-balanced by a heavy short arm on the other side to allow clearance for the winding square of the going train, which protrudes through the cock."

The back of the outer case bears a repousse scene depicting Susanna and the Elders. There are winding holes in the back of the inner case for going and striking trains, the latter striking the hour on a steel bell housed inside the inner case, and there is a lever projecting from under the dial at 2 o'clock for strike-silent.

REFERENCE

The story of Susanna and the Elders is set in Babylon during the Exile and it tells how Susanna, the wife of a prosperous Jew, was secretly desired by two elders of the community and how they plotted together to seduce her. She was accustomed to go into her garden to bathe, so one day the elders hid themselves there to wait for her. The moment her maids had gone, leaving Susanna alone, the two old men sprang out on the naked, unsuspecting girl. They threatened that unless she gave herself to them both they would swear publicly that they had seen her in the act of adultery with a young man, a crime for which the penalty was death. But Susanna spurned them and cried for help. The old men, thwarted, carried out their threat; Susanna was hauled before a court on the false charge, found guilty and condemned to die. At the eleventh hour the young Daniel came forward and cross-examined the elders. By the device of separating them from each other, he elicited conflicting evidence, thus proving Susanna's innocence.

This watch was offered to Norman in 1971 for 3,000 pounds by Terence Camerer Cuss but at the time it was not convenient for him to purchase it. In a letter from Terence to Norman dated 1/7/1973 Terence states "the inner case is not hall-marked, which is not unusual at this date, but the case-maker's stamp is "W.I." (a case-maker Tompion used: we had a little while ago a quarter-repeater numbered 58 with the same mark)", and further "my own Tompion has a similar ring and indeed the quality of the movement is of the same high standard with fully finished pinions and very fine wheel work." Again in part: "This is all in all a very splendid watch and I can honestly say it is absolutely perfect.''

The inner case of the Daniel Delander gold pair-cased watch No. 127 also bears the casemaker's mark "W.1."

Daniel Delander was apprenticed to Chas Halsted in 1692, free of the Clockmakers Company in 1699 and died in 1733.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Camerer Cuss & co in October 1973 for 6,300 pounds.

$15,000–25,000

A rare mock-pendulum silver-cased pocket watch, maker Joseph Antram, English, circa 1710

4.8cm diameter, 5.8cm case diameter, 6.2cm height of case

Single silver cased watch, open face. Square hinge to bezel, short pendant, round loose bow.

Consular case plain, not hallmarked.

Silver champleve dial which does not fill the whole of the top-plate, the bottom part of the dial has a cut-away half-moon aperture through which a mock pendulum appears. Beside it is a three-quarter moon aperture exposing the key-operated regulator dial. Raised Roman hour numerals, outer Arabic minute numerals, the centre with a symmetrical foliate design. Signed below the mock pendulum "Antram London". Blued steel beetle and poker hands.

The case opens at 3 o'clock, and the bezel holding a domed glass is hinged at 12 o'clock; the movement is also hinged at 12 o'clock allowing it to swing out of the case. The back of the movement is in fact the top plate, the movement being reversed so that the balance wheel, which forms the mock pendulum, can be seen through the dial. Winding spindle protrudes through the top plate which is covered by a thin brass cover with concentric circles.

Fusee drive, verge escapement. Egyptian pillars, ornate fusee stop. Circular rim enclosing the backplate decorated with a repeating foliate pattern.

REFERENCE

Britten says Antram was apprenticed to Charles Gretton on 17th January 1697, free of the Clockmakers Company on 7th October 1706, worked until 1720 and died in 1723. He was watch and clock maker to King George I, there is a record of a long case clock ca 1700 and a watch ca 1720. There is a pair-case striking watch in the Frankel Collection and a gold repousse in the Arts Museum, Prague, by Antram.

An astronomical watch by this maker sold Christie's Geneva 20–12 MAY 2003 lot 4 for 11,500 CHF (approx AUD$20,000)

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould, London, in December 1972 for 500 British pounds.

Adjusted and cleaned by Camerer Cuss and co., London. 1st December 1975, at a cost of 29 British pounds.

$3,000–5,000

A rare scarlet tortoise-shell and silver pair-cased watch, with silver pin-work, maker Robert Dent, English, circa 1705

4.6cm diameter, 5.7cm high, 5.8cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased watch, the outer case covered in tortoiseshell (correctly turtle-shell, probably hawksbill turtle) decorated with silver pinwork. Part of the tortoiseshell on the bezel has been repaired and pinwork is missing. Inner box plain, not hallmarked. Squared hinge to split bezel, Bulls-eye glass. Short round pendant, stirrup bow.

Silver dial, inner Roman hour numerals with black niello highlights, outer Arabic minute numerals. Cartouche above centre surround by a shell, date aperture below and foliate decoration around centre arbor, dial not signed. Blued Steel, tulip hour hand and blued steel poker hand.

Fusee drive, verge escapement. Pierced balance cock, table decorated with chased foliate design, pierced and chased foot to match. Silver regulator dial and backplate with beak of bird as indicator.

Signed "R. Dent, London".

REFERENCE

Britten lists a Robert Dent who was apprenticed to Benjamin Bell on 15/2/1670, granted freedom of the Clockmakers Company 4/7/1681 and worked in London until 1746.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Edwin Dean Normans son from Lawrence Gould 17/12/1971.

$2,000–3,000

A rare wandering hour pocket watch, no. 225, maker Abraham Fromanteel, English, circa 1700

4.3cm dial diameter, 6cm high, 5.5cm case diameter

Outer case covered with skin decorated with silver rosette pinwork. The silver dial shows the current hour in Roman figures within a circular aperture which travels across the upper part of the dial within a blued steel semicircle indicating the minutes above and the quarters below. "As it disappears below the horizon" the next hour appears. The scene depicted in the lower part of the dial shows Cronos drawing Apollo's Chariot across the sky.

The balance cock has a semi-circular segment cut away to reveal a mock pendulum, a fashion which was more common for clocks, but does not in any way do anything to enhance the going of the watch. Note that by this stage the cock foot has become very broad and the table round, which has a decorated rim and wings and the semi-circular foot has extended to follow the circumference of the backplate.

PROVENANCE

A fine and rare pocket watch by a member of a famous family of makers. Abraham was the third son of and apprenticed to his father, Ahasuerus Fromanteel, who produced the first Pendulum Clock in London. Abraham Fromanteel was born in 1646, apprenticed to his father in 1662 and was elected to the freedom of the Clockmakers Company in 1680.

$5,000–10,000

A rare gold repousse pair-cased repeater watch, maker John Ellicott Jnr, English, circa 1772

4.3cm diameter, 5.7cm high, 5.1cm case diameter

Gold pair cased repeating watch, the inner case pierced and chased with an asymmetrical design around the sides, mask on the side opposite the pendant, back chased with a figure of an exotic bird. Long pendant (incorporating the repeating push piece), stirrup bow. The outer case is pierced on the sides and around the bezel, with a repousse scene of Achilles and the daughters of Lycomedes. It is said that Achilles' mother, knowing her son was destined to be killed if he went to fight in the Trojan War, disguised him as a woman and entrusted him to King Lycomedes, in whose palace on the Isle of Scyros he lived among the king's daughters. Ulysses and other Greek chieftains were sent to fetch Achilles. They cunningly laid a heap of gifts before the girls: jewellery, clothes and other finery, but among them a sword, spear and shield. When a trumpet was sounded Achilles instinctively snatched up the weapons and thus betrayed his identity.

See page 41 of the AHS Journal for March 2001 where a gold pair cased quarter repeating watch by William Webster hallmarked 1770 with an almost identical repousse case chased by G. M. Moser, "the last and perhaps the greatest of the repousse artists"; could this case be by Moser?

White enamel dial with Roman hour numerals, Arabic minute numerals and blued steel beetle and poker hands. The movement has a cylinder escapement. Fusee and chain drive, repeating the half quarters on a steel bell housed inside the box. Small balance cock, the table finely pierced and engraved in an asymmetrical foliate design, centred with a large diamond endstone. The solid foot is chased, with typical inset in middle of rim. Plain round pillars, pierced fret forming pointer to silver regulator dial. The back plate and the dust cover are both signed "Ellicott London 6650".

There is a lever protruding from under the dial between 5 and 6 o'clock which, when pushed, allows the watch to repeat without striking the bell: called a pulse-repeat.

REFERENCE

Britten, in discussing the Ellicott's, says: "The most eminent watch and clock maker of the family was John's son, John Junior, born in 1706, who established himself in business about 1728. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.

Ellicott's productions were distinguished by excellent workmanship. He paid great attention to the cylinder escapement and did much to bring it into use. His more cosily watches were most lavishly decorated, the cases in repousse, and the dials enamelled on gold. He was appointed clockmaker to the king, and died suddenly in 1772".

Robert Edgecombe did a thesis at Trinity College, Oxford in 1980. Having seen a photograph of this watch he wrote to Norman in a letter dated 22/9/1980 and said:

"(a) Sotheby's, 26/7/1971, lot 152

(b) the movement number and hallmark (1772-3) fit into Ellicott's slightly erratic sequence. I have reference to, or have handled, 6393 (1771-2), 6794 {1773-4), 6820 (inner case 1772-3, outer case 1773-4). I think the case maker, PG, must be Peter Goigon who registered his mark in 1763".

He also thought the repousse could have been done by Manly or one of his pupils.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Lawrence Gould, London on 17/12/1971 for 460 pounds. Restored by Camerer Cuss & Co, London, on 1/12/1975, cost 69 pounds.

$4,000–8,000

A rare 18ct gold quarter-repeater pocket-watch, maker Breguet et Fils, French, circa 1818

18 carat gold French pair-cased quarter repeating watch. Both inner and outer cases finely engine turned. Short circular pendant, round bow. The outer case fits so snugly around the inner case that at first it is not apparent that it is pair-cased. The outer case is not marked except for the number 3270 stamped on the inside of that case. The inner case bears French hallmarks on the inside of the back cover, the numbers 2213 and 3270 with the letter "B" underneath it. Inscribed on the inside cover in script are the figures and word ''No 3270, Breguet". There is a winding hole in the inside cover with an arrow indicating the direction in which the movement is to be wound.

Matt gold dial with black Roman hour numerals. Blued steel moon hands, typically Breguet.

Minute divisions marked with black dots. Signed on the inside of the chapter ring at 6 o'clock "Breguet et Fils" in small print. Breguet's "secret signature" appears on either side of the 12 numeral, "Breguet 3270" in minute print. There is an adjusting screw on the dial between 6 and the central Arbor.

The movement has a duplex escapement and a balance spring without Breguet overcoil.

There is parachute suspension to the balance wheel which has gold weights which are tapered towards the head. The duplex wheel is a single wheel and not a double wheel as Breguet generally used.

The repeat mechanism is operated by pulling up the knob on the pendant, giving it a quarter turn clockwise and then pressing it right down. The hours are struck on a gong, and the quarters are struck on two gongs with different notes.

REFERENCE

Abraham Louis Breguet was born at Neuchatel in Switzerland in 1747. His family had a French protestant background and fled France for sanctuary in Switzerland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was 11 years old when his father died and some years later his mother remarried, to a watchmaker of considerable repute. At about the age of 15 his step-father sent him to Versailles in France to be apprenticed in the watch trade. In 1768 his family and step-father returned to France and in 1775 he married into a wealthy family and he set up home and business on the Quai d'Horloge and in 5 years his reputation was made.

Then came the French Revolution and his flight back to Switzerland to escape the terror. He returned to France in 1795.

Breguet was an inventive genius, and his list of inventions is extensive. He was not only a master craftsman but also had artistic flair. The name of his firm up until 1807 was simply Breguet but when he took his son Louis Antonio into partnership it changed to Breguet et Fils.

PROVENANCE

This watch was brought to Australia by Frederic Tait, thought to have a gallery of some sort in Melbourne. Tait left the watch to his nephew Edward Chetloe Eden of Middle Street, Cleveland and E.C. Eden wrote to Breguet in 1950. He left the watch to his son Edward Archibald Eden in about 1970. Purchased from Ted Eden in 1977 for $3,000.00.

A copy of a letter addressed to E. C. Eden from the House of Breguet dated 20th September 1950 states, as translated from the French, that the watch was sold to a Mr. Sine, valet, for the sum of 1,440 francs. Further correspondence follows and a Certificate of Authenticity could not be obtained without taking the watch to the House of Breguet in Paris so that it could be physically inspected. It would appear that the watch was initially made with a ruby cylinder escapement and later converted to a duplex escapement; where, when and by whom is not known.

$4,000–8,000

A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker George Brooke, English, circa 1700

4.3cm diameter, 5.2cm high, case diameter 5.1cm

Silver pair cased watch, both inner and outer cases marked "RB", for Richard Bigge, casemaker of London. The inner case has a stirrup bow and a square hinge for the bezel, and the outer case has a rounded-off hinge.

Silver champleve dial, blued steel beetle and poker hands, signed on a cartouche above the centre "Brooke" and below the centre on a cartouche "London". Gilt edge to the dial outside the chapter ring. The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive, Egyptian pillars and ornate fusee stop. Winged cock with mask at base of table, pierced and engraved with a foliate pattern and centred by a shell, the foot similarly pierced and engraved. Pierced and engraved fret above regulator dial. Signed on the backplate "Geo Brooke London".

REFERENCE

Brooke was apprenticed to Robert Crosby in 1671, free of the Clockmakers Company in 1681 and worked until 1701.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Dr. Burnett in January 1973 for 270 pounds. A lovely little watch, according to Norman.

$2,000–3,000

A rare silver-gilt pair-cased pocket watch, maker John Pepys, English, circa 1700

4.7cm diameter, 6.2cm high, 6cm case diameter

Silver-gilt pair cased watch, the gilding almost completely worn off. Silver-gilt champleve dial, blued steel beetle and poker hands. Signed "Pepys" above the centre in a cartouche surrounded by foliate scrolling and surmounted by a cherub's head, and signed "London" below in a cartouche surrounded by foliate scrolling and surmounted by two urns.

Movement with verge escapement, fusee and chain drive. Footed, pierced and engraved balance cock, the table with a foliate pattern centred by a shell, the foot below a mask on the table.

Pierced fret with head of exotic bird forming pointer for regulator dial. Signed on the backplate "John Pepys London". Straight, square column pillars, ornate fusee stop. Mainspring regulator under spring barrel.

REFERENCE

John Pepys was apprenticed to Jno Harris in 1672, and free of the Clockmakers Company in 1686; he was appointed master in 1707. He had four sons who were all apprenticed to him. He died in 1715. Represented with a watch in the British Museum and a clock in the Weatherfield Collection.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould in December 1971 for 260 pounds, restored by Camerer Cuss & Co in December 1975 for 43 pounds.

$2,000–3,000

A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker John May, English, circa 1700

4.8cm diameter, 5.5cm high, 6cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased watch, both inner and outer cases plain, both have the case-maker's mark "HR" for Richard Hutchinson (1699). Small stirrup bow, split bezel.

Silver two-piece champleve dial, the centre with applied silver scroll work and cartouche above a gilt field. Square date aperture below the centre, gilt beetle and poker hands. Signed "May" in a cartouche above the centre and "London" in a cartouche below. There is a gilt, engraved rim on the outside of the chapter ring. Gilt rosette touch pieces on the half hours between the Roman numerals.

The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive. Winged, pierced and engraved balance cock, the table decorated with a foliate pattern and centred with a rosette, mask near the foot. The foot is similarly patterned, as is the pierced and engraved fret surrounding the regulator dial. Egyptian pillars, ornate fusee stop. Signed on the backplate "John May London."

REFERENCE

John May was a Dutchman who worked in London. He was made a brother of the Clockmakers Company in 1692 and Britten says he died in 1738. Watches by John May are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, movements by him are in Guildhall Museum and Science Museum South Kensington, and further watches are in the Dennison and Frill collections. A longcase clock by John May is illustrated in Clockmakers Company of London pl. XI.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Charles Allix in December 1972 for 300 pounds.

$2,000–3,000

A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Henry Massy, English, circa 1705

4.8cm diameter, 5.4cm high, 6cm case diameter

Silver pair cased watch, the outer case covered with black leather decorated with silver pin-work, the inner case bearing the number 2261 and the casemaker's mark P.R.N. Silver champleve dial with blued steel beetle and poker hands. Signed "Massy" in a cartouche above the centre of the dial and "London" in a cartouche below. Both cartouches are surrounded by elaborate scroll work and the higher cartouche is surmounted by a shell. There is a ringed date aperture below the lower cartouche.

The movement has a verge escapement with fusee and chain drive, and an ornate fusee stop. Winged, pierced and engraved cock in a foliate design, eagle at top of table with spread wings, centre with shell and female mask near foot. The latter is similarly pierced and engraved, as is the fret around the indicator dial for the regulator. The plates are separated by ornate Egyptian pillars with scrolling above, and there is an ornate fusee stop. Signed on the backplate "Henry Massy, London, No. 2261".

REFERENCE

Henry Massy was a son of Nicholas Massy of Blois who came to London in about 1660;

Henry was made a brother of the Clockmakers Company in 1692 and worked until 1745. He has watches in the Guildhall Museum, the Science Museum and private collections.

In a letter to Norman from Terence Camerer Cuss, Terence states "This watch is really in exquisite condition and has seen little use. Even the hinge to the outer case is still tight. It was at one time in the collection of Lord Harris. Henry Massy is of course a well-known name."

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Camerer Cuss & Co on 9/1/1978 for 1,200 pounds.

$2,000–3,000

A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker William Webster, English, circa 1710

5cm diameter, 5.7cm high, 5.7cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased watch, both inner and outer cases quite plain and both marked "HR" (for Richard Hutchison), the same casemaker as the John May watch dated circa 1700; both cases bear the number 466. Silver champleve dial, blued steel beetle and poker hands, signed "Webster" in a raised arc above the centre and "London" in a raised arc below.

The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive, Egyptian pillars and ornate fusee stop. The winged cock is nicely pierced with a shell centre and lady's bust towards the foot. Signed on the back plate "Wm Webster, Exchange Alley, 466".

REFERENCE

Britten lists Webster as being made free of the Clockmakers Company in 1710, Warden in 1734 and died in office in 1735. He was at the Dial and Three Crowns, Exchange Alley when Tompion died on 20th November 1713. An advertisement appeared soon after which said "served as a journeyman a considerable time with the said Mr Tompion and by his industry and care is fully acquainted with his secrets in the said art."

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Terence Camerer Cuss in January 1973 for 380 pounds.

$1,500–2,500

A rare and fine gold pair-cased pocket watch, maker Daniel Delander, English, circa 1713

4.6cm diameter, 5.7cm high, 5.8cm case diameter

Gold pair cased watch, the inner case bears London hallmarks for 1713 and the casemakers mark "WI", the same maker as the Delander clockwatch No 112. The outer case bears a very worn monogram and it was shown to Mr Beresford Hutchinson of the British Museum (Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities) who was of the opinion that the outer case probably once had an enamel plaque in the back.

Gold champleve dial, Roman hour numerals originally enamelled black, outer minute ring with black enamel Arabic numerals. Signed in a cartouche above the centre "Delander" and in a cartouche below "London". Blued steel beetle and poker hands.

The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive, Egyptian pillars and a fusee stop with laurel leaves. Winged cock, pierced table and foot; on the table is mounted a regulator with a rack and a silver indicating ring. The far end of the table from the foot has the letters "FAS" engraved on it, and halfway around the circumference is engraved "SLOO". Signed on the back plate "Daniel Delander in Deveraux Court, London, 127".

REFERENCE

Terence Camerer Cuss in a letter to Norman Dean dated 7/11/1983 says: "After some while I have concluded the date letter to be for 1713" [although Britten lists Delander as being in Deveraux Court from 1706 until 1712 and then between the two Temple Gates 1712-1717] "what a lovely and interesting watch. Early jewelling and regulator needs some research."

Another movement by Delander with a regulator on the top of the cock is in the British Museum.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould on 17/12/1971 for 370 pounds.

$3,000–5,000

A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Richard Camden, English, circa 1720

5cm diameter, 6cm high, 6cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased watch, inner case plain and bears the case-maker's mark "HG", possibly for Henry Greene. Outer case plain and similarly marked. Short silver pendant and loose ring bow.

Silver champleve dial with black enamel Roman hour numerals and black enamel Arabic minute numerals. Signed "Camden" in a cartouche above the centre of the dial and "London" in a cartouche below. Blued steel beetle and poker hands.

The movement has a verge escapement with fusee and chain drive. It has very fine pillars with scroll work above and applied silver mounts below with a gargoyle face and a scroll on each side. The fusee stop is unusual and appears to be in the form of joined letters surmounted by a crown, all upside down. Finely pierced and engraved silver, winged balance cock, the table centred with a rosette, leafy scrollwork surrounded by an engraved border. The foot of the cock, also silver, is pierced and engraved with leafy scrolls. A gilded serpent points to the numbers on the regulator dial which is also silver. Signed on the back plate Ric Camden, London".

REFERENCE

Britten lists Richard Camden as being apprenticed to his father William Camden in 1709 and immediately after that lists "splendid long case clock, excellent timekeeper; repeating watch, pierced cases; watch, handsome chased silver dial, silver balance cock, very fine movement. silver case, reputed belonged Charles XII of Sweden".

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould in December 1972 for 400 pounds. Restored by Camerer Cuss & Co London 1/12/1975 for 46 pounds.

$1,500–2,500

A gilt-metal pair cased pocket watch, maker Thomas Good, English, circa 1730

4.4cm diameter, 6.2cm high, 5.1cm case diameter

Gilt-metal pair cased watch, the inner case plain, long pendant, broad stirrup bow. The outer case is covered in shagreen (or Chagreen, as Robert Burnett called it in a letter to Norman dated 13/2/1972) or shark skin tanned and coloured green, decorated with brass pin work. Gold champleve dial, black enamel Roman hour numerals, black enamel Arabic minute numerals, blued steel beetle and poker hands. Signed "Good" on a polished ribbon above the centre of the dial and "London" on a polished ribbon below.

The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive. Balance cock with a pierced and engraved table, symmetrical foliate pattern with a mask near the foot, and pierced and engraved foot. Plain, squared pillars (see Britten, figure 15, page 115, td example from the right), ornate fusee stop, pierced fret forming indicator for the silver regulator dial. Signed on the back plate "T. Good, London, 731''.

REFERENCE

Thomas Good was apprenticed to Henry Jones in 1700. This watch was mentioned in the AHS Journal for March 1972 under Sold at Auction: ''T. Good, London, No 731. Gilt-metal pair-cased verge watch, gold champleve dial, outer case with green sharkskin, circa 1730, sold Sotheby's late 1971 for 110 pounds".

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Robert Burnett, Nottingham, January 1972 for 195 pounds.

$1,000–2,000

A gold duplex hunter pocket watch, maker James McCabe, English, circa 1802

5cm diameter, 7.7cm case height

18 carat gold hunter, plain consular case. Long flattened pendant, gold stirrup bow. The case bears London hallmarks for 18 carat gold and the year 1802. It also bears the case-maker's mark "IR" and the number 4848. Grimwade's "London Goldsmiths" lists James Richards as having this mark; he was a case-maker who worked in London from 1762 until at least 1816.

White enamel dial, Arabic hour numerals, gold spade hands. A plain but attractive dial. Key wind, fusee drive, duplex escapement. Solid narrow balance cock, chased on the foot and table with a foliate pattern. Three arm bi-metallic balance. Signed on the backplate "James McCabe, London, 4848". Plain cylindrical pillars.

REFERENCE

Britten says James McCabe worked from 1780 to 1811; he was admitted to the freedom of the Clockmakers Company on the 2nd of April 1781, appointed to the livery in 1786, appointed warden in 1811 when he died. He was well known for fine watches and clocks, and he specialised in duplex escapements. His best watches such as this example were engraved "James McCabe", second class "McCabe" and lowest quality "Beatson". McCabe watches are illustrated in "The English Watch 15851970" by Terence Camerer Cuss, and in Clutton and Daniels "Watches".

$3,000–5,000

A rare pair-cased gilt-metal repeater pocket watch, in shagreen case, maker George Graham, English, circa 1720

4cm diameter, 5.7cm high, 5.5cm case diameter

Gilt metal pair-cased watch, the inner box pierced and decorated with foliate designs and animal heads, and a mask, the outer covered with green shagreen and holed at regular intervals around the bezel and on the case to allow sound of the bell to be heard by the wearer. Gold pinwork in a radial pattern to the shagreen on the back of the case.

White enamel dial Roman hour numerals and outer Arabic minute numerals. Gold hands in the continental style. Push-piece for the repeating mechanism protruding out of the top of the pendant.

Fusee movement, plain cylindrical pillars, pierced table of cock with a mask and diamond end-stone, chased foot. Key operated silver adjustment dial.

Signed on the back plate "G. Graham, London, 646".

There is a steel bell housed in the inner box on which the hammer of the repeating mechanism strikes.

REFERENCE

Graham was apprenticed to Herny Aske for seven years in 1688. He was admitted a freeman of the Clockmakers Company on completing his indentures in 1695 and immediately entered the service of Thomas Tompion. In 1696 he married Tompion's niece, Elizabeth. He was elected a fellow and went into partnership with Tompion until Tompion's death in 1713.

Graham developed the cylinder escapement and after 1726 introduced it into all his watches. He invented the dead-beat escapement in 1715 and the mercury pendulum in 1726.

Graham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1721, and chosen as a member of the council of that body in 1722; also in 1722 he became master of the Clockmakers Company.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Edwin Dean from Lawrence Gould, in December 1971.

$2,000–3,000

A large gilt metal and garnet jewelled coach watch, maker Benjamin Ward, circa 1770

9cm diameter

Gilt metal pair-cased coach watch, or chaise clock; very large, 90mm in diameter. The outer case is chased on the back with a floral border surrounding a cartouche with a geometric rim.

Inside the cartouche is an urn with flowers spilling from it. The front of the watch has a bezel with a foliate pattern and the edge of the bezel is set with a continuous row of garnets. Round pendant, stirrup bow. Inside of case stamped 890.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, outer Arabic minute numerals. Gold beetle and poker hands, large sweep seconds hand. Lever at 9 o'clock extending through the bezel to stop the movement. High domed glass.

Key wind, fusee drive with verge escapement. Plain circular pillars, ornate fusee stop. Pierced balance cock, both table and foot very open. The area surrounding the regulator dial also openly pierced. Signed on the backplate "Benj Ward London No 892".

REFERENCE

Britten lists a Benjamin Ward, 1770-1811, at London Rd, Southwark; fine bracket clock Ca 1770; same place 1780, and in London Rd St George Fields 1799-1811: watchmaker.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Michael Denton, 29a Golders Way, Golders Green, London NWl 1 for 600 British pounds.

$1,000–2,000

A silver and tortoise-shell pocket-watch made for Turkish market, circa 1842

Four cased (silver, tortoiseshell and wood) watch made for the Turkish market. Both inner box and the first of the outer cases are plain silver, hallmarked London 1842. The case also bears the casemakers mark "JB'', possibly Josiah Barnett who is listed in Grimwade as a casemaker having his mark entered and re-entered from 1819 to 1835. There is a second outer case made of tortoiseshell (actually Hawksbill Turtle shell) decorated with silver pinwork, and yet another further outer case made of wood which is high-domed and completely encloses the watch. Long round pendant, oval bow.

White enamel dial, marked "Edward Prior, London", black Turkish hour numerals, blued steel beetle and poker hands.

Key wind, fusee drive, verge escapement. Ornate pillars and fusee stop, pierced and engraved balance cock decorated with foliate pattern near foot. Silver regulator dial. Signed "Edward Prior, London, 58662".

REFERENCE

Edward Prior carried on business in Clerkenwell at first alone and then in partnership with William Chambers. He specialised in making watches for the Turkish market, reproducing the style current in the mid-18th century. This particular example is typical, complete with all cases.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from St. John Reid, Little Collins St., Melbourne.

$800–1,200

A silver cased pocket watch, maker Thomas Mudge, English, circa 1736-37

4.3cm diameter, 6.1cm high, 5.4cm case diameter

Silver watch, plain silver inner case, case-maker's mark "IW" with an asterisk above, for John White; also stamped with the number 5. Outer case is associated. Long pendant, stirrup bow. Silver champleve dial, black enamel Roman hour numerals, black enamel Arabic minute numerals, blued steel beetle and poker hands. Signed on the dial "Mudge" above the centre and "London" below.

The movement has a verge escapement with a fusee and chain drive. The table of the balance cock is finely pierced and engraved with a symmetrical foliage pattern centred by a rosette with a mask near the foot of the cock. The foot is finely pierced, as is the fret which indicates the numbers on the silver regulator dial. Signed on the back plate "Tho. Mudge 5 London". Plain squared pillars, ornate fusee stop.

Charles Allix says that the earliest dated Mudge watch is a gold repousse pair cased watch with a cylinder escapement numbered 22 and hallmarked for 1738 (illustrated and discussed at page 116, plate 56 of Antique Watches). This watch is No 5, and Charles Allix believes Mudge commenced making watches in 1736 and made about nine a year, which would date this watch at 1736 or not later than 1737.

REFERENCE

Britten says Mudge was born at Exeter in 1715, "and showed so great a taste for mechanics,with a particular inclination for horology, that his father placed him as an apprentice with (George) Graham". He was admitted to the freedom of the Clockmakers Company in 1738, and called to the livery in 1766". "In 1769 Mudge made for King George Ill what is perhaps the most historically important watch in the world; not only was it the first pocket watch to have an automatic device for compensating changes in temperature, but it contained Mudge's invention of the lever escapement, which was eventually to attain complete supremacy in watches so that it is now the only escapement made. Yet so great were the difficulties of making it at first that Mudge would never make another and believed it could never be made a commercial success. George Ill gave the Mudge lever to his wife, Queen Caroline, and it is still in going order at Windsor Castle".

About 1755 Mudge went into partnership with William Dutton, and from about 1765 Mudge turned his attention to marine timekeepers and in 1771, leaving the conduct of the business to Dutton, moved to Plymouth where he devoted himself to the construction of chronometers. The first one was sent to Greenwich Observatory in 1774, and the Board of Longitude pronounced it satisfactory and sent him 500 pounds and asked him to continue his researches. Mudge's remontoire escapement in his chronometers demanded even greater delicacy in construction than did his lever; even though it proved to have accuracy that was not rivalled for nearly a century, its extreme delicacy and complication meant it could never have been produced commercially.

Mudge was appointed clock maker to George Ill in 1776, which duty he fulfilled by proxy, and he died at his son's house in Walworth on 14th November 1794.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from E. I. Bright of Brisbane in 1971 for $100. $1,000–2,000

A silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Simon de Charmes, English, circa 1705

4.7cm diameter, 6.8cm high, 5.3cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased watch, outer case and inner box plain, not hallmarked. Long round pendant, circular bow. There is an incused mark on the inside of the box which could be an 8 or two e's back-to-back, but there is no record of a casemaker's mark which resembles this.

Silver champleve dial, Roman hour numerals. Minutes are shown on an outside ring every five minutes on a raised polished disc with Arabic numerals. Half-hours are marked by a baton between the hour numerals. Plain matt centre with blued steel beetle and poker hands.

Movement is fusee drive, verge escapement. Tulip pillars and ornate fusee stop. Pierced and chased balance cock, the table winged and decorated with a symmetrical foliate pattern, a female mask at the end opposite the foot and a shell near the foot. The foot is squared and then follows the rim of the backplate and is decorated with an asymmetrical foliate pattern. Signed on the backplate "S. Dechrmes, London".

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Lawrence Gould, London for 400 British pounds.

REFERENCE

Britten says Simone (or Simon) de Charmes was a Frenchman exiled after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He was admitted a brother of the Clockmakers Company (in the early years sometimes extended to aliens) between 1688 and 1730. A number of his watches and clocks are in various collections including the London Museum, Ilbert Collection and the Guildhall.

$1,000–2,000

A silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Tarts, English, circa 1778

4.2cm diameter, 5.6cm high, 5.2cm case diameter

Gents silver pair-cased watch. Silver dial with ornate arched chapter ring, hours in Roman numerals in inner ring and minutes in Arabic numerals in outer ring on separate panels. Ornate Continental style hands, signed 'Tarts' in the centre with a date aperture below. Silver repousse outer case badly worn, with a scene of four figures around a table set with food, a dog in the foreground. Possibly meant to be classical Grecian. The tableau is surrounded by acanthus leaf scroll work, with a foliate border. Fusee drive, verge escapement. Balance cock of continental bridge type. Squared pillars, silver adjustment disc on backplate. Signed 'Tarts, London, 1594' on backplate.

The outer case is not hallmarked, the inner case bears a London hallmark for 1778.

REFERENCE

This type of watch is mentioned by Baillie, who says Tarts could be a fictitious name; the watch could have been made in Holland and the hallmark forged. It has been suggested that Tarts was a Dutch maker who came to London and who continued making watches on Continental lines.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from L Oakman of Campbelltown, New South Wales on 16/10/1967 for $220.00.

$800–1,200

A finely enamelled gilt-metal pair-cased watch, maker Jonathon Taylor, English, circa 1770

4.7cm diameter, 6.2cm high, 6cm case diameter

Gilt-metal pair cased watch, the inner box plain, round swivel pendant with stirrup bow. The outer case is decorated with an enamel oval panel with a half- length figure of a lady in classical robes with an urn, painted in grey tones on a brown ground, surrounded by a gold edge then white enamel and another gold edge, then white leaves on blue, white dots (simulated pearls) in another gold edged band as the outer circle. The front bezel has blue enamel with a similar ring of white simulated pearls.

The white enamel dial has Roman hour numerals and Arabic minute numerals; note that the inner ring at the foot of the Roman hour numerals has disappeared. Blued steel beetle and poker hands. The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive. Pierced and engraved table to the balance cock with a central diamond endstone and asymmetrical foliate scrolling pattern. Solid engraved foot. Signed on the back plate "Jno Taylor1082 London".

Plain circular pillars, ornate fusee stop. There is a lever to stop the movement below the dial at 9 o'clock.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Michael Denton in December 1972 for 600 pounds.

$1,500–2,500

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An art-deco gold pocket watch, maker Patek Phillipe, Swiss, circa 1940

4.7cm diameter, 4.9cm high

Very slim, art deco, gold, open-faced dress watch. 18 carat gold case. Metal dial simulating gold, no hour or minute numerals. Hours shown with a single line, each five minutes indicated by a raised dot. Subsidiary seconds dial and gold hour, minute and seconds hands.

Marked "Patek Phillipe & Co, Geneva". Folding stirrup bow and small winder.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from G. Farkas, 147. Castlereagh Street, Sydney on 21/9/1983 for $1,100.00.

$2,000–3,000

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An enamel gilt-metal pocket watch, maker Bayley and Upjohn, English, circa 1800

Gents open-faced enamel watch. White enamel dial, black Arabic numerals and delicate gold hands. Winding through the dial. Bezel set with seed pearls.

Mercurial gilt metal case, sky-blue vitreous enamel panel on back of watch with central interlaced gold band and gold, blue and white border to outer edge.

Fusee drive with lever escapement. Finely pierced and engraved balance cock with mask, and symmetrical design featuring fire-breathing dragons. Ruby endstone. Signed 'Bayley & Upjohn, London, 1041' on the backplate. Key operated silver adjustment dial on backplate.

Plain cylindrical pillars.

5cm diameter, 6cm high

REFERENCE

Bayley and Upjohn are listed in Baillie as being in Red Lion Street, London between 1790 and 1804. Figure 254 in Cescinsky and Webster's 'English Domestic Clocks' shows a regulator long case clock by Bayley and Upjohn fitted with the Harrison type of grid-iron pendulum, dated at about 1800.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Edwin from E. I. Bright of Brisbane in 1971. Repaired by Cammerer Cuss and Co. in June 1981.

$800–1,200

A gold pair-cased pocket chronometer, no. 1347, maker George Margetts, English, circa 1803

Gold pair cased pocket chronometer, plain outer case hallmarked London, 1803, 18c and maker's mark "IR". The inner case is also plain and similarly marked, and has a long pendant with a stirrup bow.

The movement has a fusee and chain drive, an Earnshaw type escapement with a two-arm bi-metallic balance and coiled helical balance spring, the cock and balance which are essentially Margetts. The back plate is signed "George Margetts London No 1347".

The watch has a white enamel dial, a subsidiary seconds dial and gold hands. It is signed on the dial "Margetts 1347" above the centre of the dial.

A chronometer is a watch which has a detent escapement, or a detached escapement; it allows the balance wheel to swing undisturbed during most of its cycle, except during the brief impulse period. The escape wheel is locked on a jewel carried in a detent, which is a blade spring or alternatively a pivoted lever. Because the driving escape wheel tooth moves almost parallel to the pallet, the escapement has little friction and does not need oiling. The pivoted detent was developed by John Arnold around 1775 and modified by Thomas Earnshaw in 1780.

5cm diameter, 7.2cm high, 6.2cm case diameter

REFERENCE

Although Harrison had won the prize offered by the Admiralty for the development of the first really accurate timekeeper in 1761, it was Arnold and Earnshaw who produced chronometers commercially. There were a number of London watch makers who followed in the footsteps of Arnold and Earnshaw and were successful chronometer makers, and Margetts was one of them.

George Margetts London (Cheapside) Freeman of Clockmakers Company 1779, Liveryman of the Clockmakers Company 1799 - 1808. A famous maker of the late 18th Century in the circle of English horologists experimenting with precision timekeeping, such as: Mudge, Emery, Arnold, Earnshaw, Kendal, Brockbank, Barraud, Pennington and Haley. Examples of his work can be found in the British Museum, Guildhall Museum and the Dennison Collection.

PROVENANCE

This watch was purchased from Camerer Cuss & Co on 11/10/1982 for 4,625 pounds.

Norman's note: "A very elegant watch in lovely condition, plain, but good".

$4,000–6,000

A consular style cased gold pocket watch, maker William Sellers, English, circa 1705

4cm diameter, 5.3cm case diameter, 5.5cm case height

Gold (22 carat) case, the bezel hinging at 9 o'clock and the movement at 12 o'clock. The case is quite plain, bearing the case-maker's mark "E.B" surmounted by a fleur-de-lys (possibly for Edw. Bennett, listed Jackson 1727-1729). Short plain pendant and stirrup bow.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, black Arabic minute numerals, blued steel beetle and poker hands.

The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive, winged balance cock, the table pierced and engraved with a symmetrical foliate pattern centred with a shell, mask near the foot, the foot itself very broad and nicely pierced and engraved. Pierced fret indicates numbers on silver regulator dial. Signed on the back plate "Wm. Sellers London".

The pillars are quite rare, with a silver head on each under an arch (as in the break-arch bracket clocks), with an ornate fusee stop.

REFERENCE

The movement of this watch may be as early as 1705, as William Sellers (Sellars} is listed in Britten as being apprenticed in 1682, free of the Clockmakers Company in 1691, Assistant in 1724 and ceased work in 1740. The case bears a London hallmark for 1742, so it would seem that the watch was re-cased in 1742, and a new enamel dial added. The dial is typical of the style of that period, similar ones being used by makers such as Graham and Ellicott.

PROVENANCE

Purchased by Norman Dean from Lawrence Gould in December 1971 for 280 pounds. Restored by Camerer Cuss & Co in December 1975 for 37 pounds.

$800–1,200

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A gold pair-cased repousse pocket watch, maker John Davison, English, circa 1782

Gold pair-cased watch with repousse outer case. Plain box, ornate swivelling pendant. White enamel dial, inner chapter ring with Roman hour numerals, outer minute ring with Arabic numerals. Blued steel beetle and poker hands, bulls-eye glass.

Fusee drive, escapement converted to lever with solid, plain balance cock. Finely made squared pillars and decorative fusee stop. Key operated silver adjustment disc on backplate. Signed 'Jno Davison, London, 2757' on backplate.

The repousse scene depicts a warrior in a plumed helmet being offered a goblet by a seated woman with another woman standing behind her with her hand to her face.

4cm diameter, 4.7cm high, 4.8cm case diameter

PROVENANCE

Purchased from St. John Reid of Little Collins Street, Melbourne for $500.00 in about 1968.

St. John said the fact that the escapement had been converted did not detract a lot from the value of the watch because it has been done well and at an early date, to improve the accuracy of time keeping.

$1,000–2,000

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An open- faced 18ct multi-coloured gold pocket watch, circa 1827 18 carat gold open faced gents watch, gold face with engine turning in centre. Raised Roman hour numerals in gold on matt and gold ground. Minute divisions marked by raised gold dots, no minute numerals. Gold hour hand, mismatched minute hand. Decorative border outside chapter ring, floral motif in four colour gold, flat bullseye glass. Bezel and edge of back cover chased with foliate design. Short round pendant, stirrup bow, London hallmark for 1827 and 18 carat gold. Makers mark a minute "W'', which has not been identified. Fusee drive, lever escarpment. Solid balance cock, the table and foot both chased with a foliate pattern. Two arm bi-metallic balance, diamond endstone. Movement not signed. Both the case and the movement marked with the numbers 5257. Brass dust cover.

4.6cm diameter, 5.6cm high

PROVENANCE

Purchased from R.W. Docker 79 Moray Street, New Farm prior to 1972.

$800–1,200

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A silver pair-cased and enamelled farmer's pocket watch, maker John Martin, English, circa 1803

4.9cm diameter, 7cm high, 5.4cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased farmer's watch with "automaton". Both inner box and outer case plain, long pendant and stirrup bow. London hallmarks for 1803 and casemaker's mark "IW", probably John Wood whose mark was entered in 1802 and again in 1804, and he is listed as a casemaker in Grimwade. The outside of the box is engraved "I. B. Knight" in script.

White enamel dial, decorated with a polychrome painting of a farmer leading a horse evidently laden with bags of flour as he comes down a path away from a windmill. The "sails" of the windmill indicate the seconds going by. The Arabic hour numerals in the chapter ring encircle the painting. Gold spade hands.

Fusee drive, verge escapement. Pierced and engraved table to balance cock decorated with a symmetrical foliate pattern, central rosette, compote with fruit near foot. The foot is solid, chased with a foliate pattern around a central rosette. Silver regulator dial, a hand with the index finger extended being the indicator. Circular pillars, very plain circular fusee stop.

Signed on the backplate "Jno Martin, Cheltenham, No 122".

PROVENANCE

This watch was brought to Australia by John Kellond-Knight; Norman Dean sold him his property in Erobin Street, Cleveland; the Deans lived at the other end of Erobin Street.

Purchased from Norman's brother Harding in April 1974 for $300.

$800–1,200

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A silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker James Curries, English, 18th century

4.8cm diameter, 7cm high, 5.8cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased watch, outer case and inner box plain, both bearing London hallmarks for 1799 and the makers mark RN, probably Robert Nash who was entered on the Goldsmiths register on 24/12/1978 as a small worker. Long pendant, ring bow.

White enamel dial with black Roman numerals, and an inner concentric ring with Roman numerals and a short, steel arrow date hand. Plain gold hour and minute hands.

Fusee movement with verge escapement, table of cock pierced with a symmetrical pattern incorporating a central geometric design surmounted by three plumes (similar to a fleur-de-lis) surrounded by a flowing foliate pattern. There is a mask near the foot, which is solid and chased, with a chased surround bearing a hand with extended index finger forming the indication to the silver regulator dial. Signed on the backplate "Jaa Curries, London, 6987"

$400–600

A silver pair-cased rack lever pocket watch, maker John Wood, English, circa 1820

5cm diameter, 6.7cm high, 5.7cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased watch. The outer case and inner box plain, both bearing Chester hallmarks for 1820-21 and case-maker's mark 'NL', probably Nicholas Lee, noted by Jackson as a watch-case maker. His first mention is in 1796 and his latest in 1817.

White enamel dial, large black Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold hands, large flat pendant, stirrup bow.

Fusee drive, rack lever escapement. Solid chased cock with a basket of flowers, the foot bearing the word 'patent'. Diamond end stone, threearm steel balance. Plain circular pillars. Modest fusee stop. Signed on the backplate 'John Wood, No. 3316, Liverpool'.

There is a lever protruding under the dial at 7 o'clock that enables the movement of the watch to be stopped by bringing the lever to rest: a form of stopwatch. Brass dust cover.

REFERENCE

John Wood is listed in Britten as being in Liverpool from 1796 to 1824. A diagram of a rack-lever escapement is shown in figure 19 on page 151 of Brittens 'Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers' (9th edition). The racklever, according to Clutton and Daniels, was invented by the Abbe de Hautefeuille in 1722. This contained the seeds of the lever escapement, although it is not known whether Mudge was indebted to it for the idea of the detached lever escapement, and it did not come into general use until after 1791, when a considerably altered form of it was patented by the Liverpool maker Pe~er Litherland. The first Lancashire (Liverpool is in Lancashire) lever watches were rack-levers, made in increasing numbers during the early 19th century. The pioneer of this revival was Peter Litherland who took out his first patent in 1791; but whether he was aware of the Abbe de Hautfeuille's form of escapement is not known. Despite their non-detachment, the Lancashire rack-lever performed surprisingly well when well made, which some of them were. All had flat steel balances, and a very few had compensation curbs. The lever was laid out tangentially to the escape wheel.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Max Cohen, Dornoch Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane in about 1970.

$400–600

A silver pair-cased pocket watch, signed Dierson and Co

5.1cm diameter, 7cm high, 5.8cm case diameter

Silver pair case watch, outer case and inner box plain, both bearing Birmingham hallmarks for 1815-16, and the case-makers mark WR, possibly William Russell of Coventry. White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, gold hands, more in the Continental style. Bullseye glass, plain stirrup bow, flattened pendant.

Fusee drive, verge escarpment, plain circular pillars. Symmetical pierced pattern on balance cock, mask near foot, solid chased foot. Signed "Dierson & Co, London, 550" on the backplate.

REFERENCE

There is no entry into Britten for Dierson & Co, suggesting they were retailers, rather than makers of watches.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Max Cohen, Domoch Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane, in about 1970.

$400–600

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A silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Thomas Martin, English, circa 1834

5.2cm diameter, 6.7cm high

Silver Pair-Cased Watch, outer case and box plain, bearing London hallmarks for 1834.

Makers mark "WB" possibly for William Barrett 11, listed in Grimwade's "London Goldsmiths" as a small worker whose mark was entered on 17/2/1821 and again on 15/9/1828.

White enamel dial with black Roman hour numerals. Mismatched gold and black hands.

Long round pendant, metal bow, catch to open outer case broken.

Fusee drive, verge escapement, pierced table to balance cock, decorated with a symmetrical chased foliate pattern with mask near foot, solid chased foot, chased surround to silver regulator dial. Signed on back plate "Thos Martin, London, 8764. Turned circular pillars.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Max Cohen, Domoch Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane in about 1970.

$400–600

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A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Thomas Gorsuch, English, circa 1710

4.8cm diameter, 6.5cm high, 5.8cm case diameter

Very deep silver pair-cased "pendulum" watch. Plain outer case and inner box, long round pendant and stirrup bow. No apparent hallmarks, marks of some sort on the inside of the box are indecipherable. White enamel dial (some damage at No 6) with black Roman hour numerals and outer Arabic minute numerals. Black steel beetle and poker hands. Engraved narrow brass ring around dial. Domed glass fitted into a split bezel. Fusee, verge escapement, Egyptian pillars. The table of the balance cock is solid but is cut away on one half to expose a "mock" pendulum bob on the end of the arm of the balance wheel. The remaining part of the table of the cock is engraved with a portrait of a woman, probably Queen Anne. The rest of the balance cock is nicely chased. There is an adjustment regulator on the tops of the table of the cock while the regulator indicator is engraved under the open balance cock. The table of the cock is winged and there is a cylindrical rim which goes around the cock, enclosing it from the back plate to the table. The foot of the cock and the side of the back plate opposite the signature are nicely chased in a foliate pattern. The back plate bears the signature "Tho Gorsuch, Salop, 282".

REFERENCE

Queen Anne reigned from 1702 until 1714. Numerous watches were made during this period having both a portrait of Queen Anne and a visible pendulum bob, including one by Marwick. It is likely that this watch was made during Queen Anne's reign, and so is probably not later than 1713. A mock pendulum by David Lesturgeon, is illustrated at page 144 of Britten (9th edition) plate 91, showing the false pendulum bob and a portrait of Queen Anne; the watch is dated circa 1705.

Britton lists "Thomas Gorsuch, 1720; Salop watch (bri)". Baillie lists him as "A fine maker 1728', but from Shrewsbury. Salop later became known as Shropshire, the county in which ' Shrewsbury is found.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Wellings, Wynnum. February 1971 for $225. $400–600

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A silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker I. Perkinson, English, circa 1803

4.8cm diameter, 6.7cm high, 5.7cm case diameter

Silver pair-cased Watch, outer case and inner case both plain, both hallmarked London for 1803. Makers mark "GS"' possibly George Swan of 42 St. John's Square, London who is listed as a watch case maker, and whose mark entered on 19/4/1800.

White enamel dial (chip to enamel middle of dial), black Roman hour numerals, mis-matched hands. Bullseye-glass. Long round pendant, stirrup bow.

Fusee drive, verge escapement. Pierced table of cock with symmetrical foliate pattern, solid chased foot and surround, with finger indication to silver regulation disc. Signed on the back plate "I Perkinson, 2620, London".

REFERENCE

There is no entry in Britton for a Perkinson at all.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from a Mr. Steiner of Sydney for $75 in about 1969.

$400–600

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An unusual silver-cased six hour dial watch, maker John Howells, English, circa 1765

4.3cm diameter, 5.4cm high, 5.5cm case diameter

Silver pair cased watch, the inner case plain, hallmarked for 1765, with case maker's mark "1.3". The outer case covered with tortoiseshell and decorated with silver pin work. Round pendant with silver bow. The white enamel dial is quite unusual, with the hours numbered 1-6 in Roman numerals, vi at 12 o'clock and iii at 6 o'clock (there are no figures at 3 o'clock nor 9 o'clock) and the hours numbered 7-12 in Arabic numerals super-imposed on them. Outer minute ring with Arabic numerals. The single poker hand revolves every 6 hours.

The movement has a verge escapement, fusee and chain drive, pierced and engraved table to the balance cock with an asymmetrical foliate scrolling pattern with a mask near the solid, engraved foot Signed "Jno Howells London 264". Squared pillars, ornate fusee stop, silver regulator dial.

The movement is covered by a gilt-metal dust cap bearing the inscription "RICD Williams, April 9th, 1766"; apparently, he was the original owner.

REFERENCE

John Howells is listed in Britten as working 1765 to 1770 at St. Catherine by the Tower.

$800–1,200

A rare silver pocket chronometer, maker John Arnold and Son, English, circa 1795

4.4cm diameter, 5.3cm case diameter, 6.7cm case height

Silver consular watch case, the movement hinging out of the case at 12 o'clock. The inside of the case bears the maker's mark 'TH" (probably Thomas Hardy), and all the London hallmarks except the date cipher which is badly rubbed. It also bears the numbers 14 above 1014. The case has a long pendant and a stirrup bow.

The movement has a spring detent escapement, two-armed compensation balance, helical blued steel spring with terminal curves, free sprung.

Pierced and engraved balance cock table which is quite narrow, diamond endstone, solid engraved foot, and circular pillars. Signed on the back plate "John Arnold & Son, London, 14 (over) 1014, Inv. et Fee."

The white enamel dial has Roman hour numerals and blued steel hands. It is signed "Arnold" above the centre of the dial and "14" below the centre.

REFERENCE

Vaudrey Mercer, in his book entitled "John Arnold & Son" (The Antiquarian Horological Society, London, 1972) at page 81, says:

"Besides the "best kind" and the "second kind" there is another series which was started by John Arnold & Son, and I propose to call it the "Second Best Kind", since they are all large pocket chronometers similar to the best kind but differing in not having a seconds dial. This would seem to imply that they were not quite as expensive as the best kind, but were accurate to the nearest minute. The series has a fractional numbering, the fraction differing by 1000, and there are three in this series recorded so far, Nos 9/1009, 14/1014 and 17/1017".

At page 211 he continues:

"SECOND BEST KIND". John Arnold & Son. Pocket Chronometers with Spring Detents, and Z Balance, but no Seconds Dial."

9/1009 Spring detent in its original state.

14/1014 Spring detent in its original state.

17/1017 Spring detent in its original state.

Arnold believed he was the inventor of the helical balance spring and obtained a patent for it in 1775. He also obtained a patent in 1782 for the terminal curves added to the ends of the helical spring to enable each coil to expand equally. Compensation balances of various designs were again inventions of his. The spring detent which he patented in 1782 was different and theoretically more correct than the type patented by Wright on behalf of Earnshaw in 1783.

The development of the chronometer by English watch makers allowed England to maintain its naval power as the accuracy of the new timekeepers allowed seafarers to plot their longitude more precisely than ever before. Kenneth Slessor's poem "Five Visions of Captain Cook" starts: "Two chronometers the captain had, One by Arnold that ran like mad," Cook carried the Arnold chronometer on his third Pacific voyage.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Terence Camerer Cuss in December 1978 for 3,550 pounds. Terence had bought it at Sotheby's London 1 December 1978 The Edward Hornby Collection (Lot 64) where it was listed as made in 1815, but it was made in 1795.

$1,500–2,500

An 18ct gold hunter pocket watch, maker Flavelle Bros and Roberts, circa 1877

3.8cm dial diameter, 4.3cm case diameter, 5.2cm case height

18 carat gold hunter watch. Case engine turned with London hallmarks for 1877 and a maker's mark "GHH: also numbers 13316." White enamel dial, Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, gold spade hands marked "Flavelle Bros & Roberts, Sydney & Brisbane on the dial. Fusee drive, lever escapement and solid bridge cock, chased table and foot. Diamond end stone. Two arm Compensated balance. Signed on the back "Flavelle Bros & Roberts, Sydney & Brisbane and stamped with the numbers 13316. Engraved on the inside back cover the dedication "To Robert Dath, from his affectionate wife, Elizabeth Dath. April 14th, 1878".

Flavelle Bros and Roberts would have had the watch made for them, probably in England and they would have been mere retailers. The Roberts in the name of the retailers (who were jewellers) was probably Henry Roberts who was an uncle of Ethel Dean, Norman Dean's mother.

PROVENANCE

Purchased in 1977 from Mr. Lurati at Southport Antique Fair for $275.

$800–1,200

48

A gold hunter fly-back chronograph pocket watch, American Waltham Watch Co., American, circa 1900 5cm diameter, 6.5cm high 18 carat gold hunter fly-back chronograph by American Waltham Watch Company. Plain case with worn heraldic design in middle of front cover. Inside of back cover bears a punched stamp which appears to be a "K" above "18", a mark in cameo "AWCO" and another one of a five-pointed star, and also finely incused the letter "W'' beside the numbers 5945. Inside the inner back cover bears similar marks except for the "A WCO" mark.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, outer minute ring with no numbers and then a further outer ring dividing the seconds into five divisions, with the split seconds numbered at each hour from 25 to 300 in Arabic script. Subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o'clock, sweep centre seconds hand, operated by push-piece on side of watch.

Lever escapement, two arm compensated balance. Spiral Breguet balance spring. Balance cock lightly chased, diamond end stone. Threequarter backplate signed "AW Co Waltham, Mass", "Pat Sept 28.80" and "Eng Pat No 3224" and the numbers 2824550. Chronograph mechanism visible on top of back plate. Stem wind, hands set by extracting lever under bezel at 5 o'clock and then turning winding crown. Round bow.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Roberts, jeweller, Elizabeth Street, Brisbane.

$800–1,200

49

A ladies silver-gilt hunter-case pocket watch, Swiss, circa 1886

3.4cm diameter, 4.4cm height

Ladies silver-gilt hunter case watch, beautifully chased with circular floral patterns and a shield in the middle of the front cover, and a large flower in the middle of the back cover.

Bears London hallmarks for 1886 and the makers mark "AB" as well as the numbers 85408.

Stem wind and cylinder escapement, typical Swiss made jewelled movement of the period, and marked, Swiss made.

Hands are set by depressing the button on the side of the watch at 5 o'clock and turning the winding crown.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, gold hands.

REFERENCE

Andrew Beaton is listed in Jackson "English Goldsmiths and their marks" as mentioned in 1847 and 1848, and there does not appear to be another with the initials "AB" between then and 1886.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Sel Smith, Watchmaker, Toowoomba, Queensland.

$300–500

50

A Ladies 14ct gold hunter pocket watch, circa 1910

3cm dial diameter, 4.2cm high, 3.4cm case diameter

Ladies 14 K gold hunter fob watch. Case lightly chased front and back with a floral design and on the front at the bottom the initials "RM". Case marked with the letter "K" over the number 14 in a conical dome. Inner back cover gilt metal, marked 26998.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals and blued steel hands. Key wind, cylinder escapement. Three arm balance. Movement not signed, typical Swiss movement of the period. Hands operated by pressing knob at side of case near stem. Round bow.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from S. Proctor, Wynnum, Queensland prior to 1972.

$400–600

51

An 18ct gold open-faced pocket watch, English, circa 1851

4.8cm diameter, 5.5cm high

18 carat gold open-faced gents watch, engine turned case with central shield on back London hallmarks for 1851 and case makers mark "HG", possibly for Horace Gooch whose mark was entered in 1822, but he would have had to have been in work for 30 or more years.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. Short round pendant circular bow.

Fusee drive lever escapement, three-quarter back plate, not signed. Balance cock lightly chased, diamond end stone. Movement numbered 3152.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Hines Antiques, Moggill. Brisbane, Queensland

$600–1,000

52

A gold virgule pocket watch, maker Percival and James, English, circa 1824

5.3cm diameter, 6.2cm high

18 carat gold open face watch. Engine turned case, central shield on back surrounded by a belt and buckle. Short round pendant and round bow. Winding holes in the back of the inner cover decorated with a foliate design and one with an arrow to show the direction to turn the key to wind the movement, and the other hole marked "Hands". London hallmarks for 18 carat gold and for 1824. Casemaker's incuse mark ""IM", possibly for John Marsh of 35 Clerkenwell Green, listed in Grimwade as a casemaker.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals. Gold spade hands.

Fusee drive, virgule escapement, plain circular pillars. Very different arced balance cock with the table cut away in the middle and decorated on the outside edge with a foliate pattern, ruby endstone. Foot solid, quite small and following the same arc lines as the table, again decorated with a foliate pattern. Gilt brass three arm balance. Interesting, elevated ring under the balance wheel on top of the backplate. Backplate otherwise plain apart from the signature "W, Percival & J. James Woolwich No1456". Woolwich is an historic town in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London (where the Royal Observatory is) on the south side of the bank of the river Thames.

Clutton and Daniels in their book "Watches" discuss the virgule escapement in not very encouraging terms, suggesting that it is similar to the cylinder escapement but no improvement on it. They say it was incapable of retaining any oil at its working surfaces and soon sets if not oiled frequently, and it was difficult to construct. While it remained popular on the Continent for about 20 years there were not many made in England.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from D. Robinson (now Farren-Price) jewellers of Edward Street, Brisbane for $500.00 in July 1979.

$800–1,200 53

A gold duplex pocket watch, maker Parkinson and Frodsham, English, circa 1824

5.3cm diameter, 6.7cm high

Gents 18 carat gold open face watch. Plain case with a Wyvem engraved on the back (a Wyvern has two legs; a Dragon has four). Short round pendant, round bow. Inside back cover inscribed "F. T. Ward" with lightly chased geometric decoration above and folate decoration below.

Winding hole in inside back cover. Case has London hallmarks for 18 carat and 1824.

Casemaker's mark "WM", possibly William Mordan whose mark was entered in 1820 when he was at Lambeth and then when he moved to 3 Berkly Street in 1821. He is listed as a watchcase maker.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial with Arabic seconds numerals. Printed name on dial "Parkinson & Frodsham, London" beneath 12 o'clock. Gold spade hands.

Fusee drive, duplex escapement. Two arm bi-metallic chronometer type balance. Solid balance cock, diamond end stone, neither backplate nor balance cock decorated, although the backplate is signed "Parkinson & Frodsham, Change Alley, London, 7555". Brass dust cover.

REFERENCE

William Parkinson was working between 1801 and 1847 and was in partnership with W. J.Frodsham during that period. Frodsham was born in 1778 and died in 1850. He was Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1836 and 1837. They were chronometer makers and published reports on trials of their chronometer in 1832 and 1833, and an article in Nautical Magazine 1833 on "The Change of Rates in Chronometers". There is a chronometer made by them in the Greenwich Museum.

PROVENANCE

Purchased at an Isles Love & Co. auction sale in 1968.

$800–1,200

54

A ladies open-face 18ct gold watch, maker Raffin-Geneva, circa 1880

4.2cm diameter, 4.7cm height

Ladies open face 18K gold fob watch. The back of the case is lightly but beautifully chased in a foliate pattern. Movement wound and hands set through apertures in the back of the watch.

Inner back cover gilt metal. Short circular pendant, round bow. Gold dial decorated with a foliate pattern inside the chapter ring, black Roman hour numerals on a matt gold chapter ring, subsidiary seconds dial. Breguet style moon hands. Minutes marked with raised gold dots. Lovely slim watch. Key wound cylinder escapement, movement marked "Raffin Geneva".

The name ''Mrs. E. Baker" is inscribed on the inside of the back cover.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Olley's Antiques, Brisbane.

$400–600

55

A small 9ct gold open-face ladies fob watch, Swiss, circa 1940

3.1cm diameter, 3.9cm high

9 carat gold open-face ladies fob watch. A small watch, 30mm in diameter. Back, side and bezel chased in a foliate pattern. Marked "9K" on the inside of the back cover, inner cover gilt metal. Both covers bear the number 515967.

Gold face with foliate decoration inside chapter ring. Gold Roman hour numerals on a matt ground, minutes marked by dimples. Blued steel hands.

Stem wind, cylinder escapement. Hands are set by pressing the knob on the side of the watch near the stem.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from a second-hand store in Nambour Queensland, prior to 1972.

$200–300

56

A two-colour gold 18ct gold open-face pocket watch, circa 1847

4.2cm diameter, 5.2cm high

Ladies 18 carat gold open-face watch. Back and inner cases hallmarked for London, 1847, 18 carat. Maker's mark HG over PG and the incuse number 1341. Outer case engine turned with central shield. Round bow. Winding aperture in inner back case.

Gold dial raised gold Roman hour numerals on matt chapter ring. Tiny dimples for minutes on outside of chapter ring and two-colour gold foliate ring outside that.

Inner part of dial finely chased with flowers and scrollwork. Blued Steel hands.

Movement not signed but bears the number 1341. Solid narrow balance cock, chased with floral decoration, diamond end stone. Three arm balance. Movement is enclosed by a solid rim right around between the backplate and the dial so that the movement is not visible.

PROVENANCE

Purchased through Alan Clausson, watchmaker and jeweller of Cleveland, Queensland from Miss Marks in June 1979.

$400–600

57

A gilt metal cased open-face pocket watch, maker James Jones, English, circa 1800

4.5cm diameter, 5.7cm high

Gents open face watch in a mercurial gilt case. Edge of back of case lightly chased, the centre of the back with a monogram "LIC" in script within an eight-pointed panel. Long circular pendant, stirrup bow.

White enamel dial, damaged near hole for winding. Black Arabic hour numerals, damaged gold hands.

Movement is key wound, winding through the dial. Fusee, verge escapement. Table of cock finely pierced with an exotic bird and a mask near the foot, which is solid with a chased foliate design. Silver regulator dial, a chased hand with its index finger extended as an indicator.

Signed "Jas Jones, London, No 280". Squared pillars, small fusee stop. There are three James

Jones listed in Baillie:

1. Hatton Wall, 1774

2. Bunhill Row, 1770-1824

3. Banner Street, 1795-1815

Any one of these is a possibility.

Purchased from Mrs. de Vries, Cleveland prior to 1972.

$300–500

58

A small gilt-metal watch in a consular case, maker James Trebor, London, circa 1750

3.4cm diameter, 4.2cm high

Small watch in a consular case. The case has an indistinct mark inside the back cover but is probably mercurial gilt. Lightly chased on the bezel and on the edge of the case in a foliate pattern, with an urn in the centre of the back. Short pendant, round bow.

White enamel dial, black Arabic hour numerals, winding through the dial. Damage to dial at 6 o'clock. Gold hands.

Fusee drive, verge escapement. Pierced table to balance cock, decorated in a foliate pattern.

Mask near foot, which is also pierced. Silver regulator dial. Signed on the backplate "J. Trebor, London".

REFERENCE

Baillie lists James Trebor as known before 1774. Trebor is Robert backwards.

$300–500

59

An 18ct gold and white enamel open-face pocket watch, circa 1910

4.5cm dial diameter, 5.5cm case diameter, 6.5cm high

Gents 18 carat gold open face watch. Case engine-turned with a central shield surrounded by a belt and buckle. Round gold bow, metal winding crown. The inside of the case bears the marks "18C" and 0.755 in rectangular frames, and the word "Brevete", a cross and the number 9407 all in an oval frame. It also bears the number 30855 near the winding stem, and indistinct marks that may be Swiss hallmarks for 18 carat.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o'clock, date dial at 12 o'clock. Interestingly, the numbers on the date dial go anti-clockwise. Gold hands, including what appears to be a sweep seconds hand.

Stem wind, lever escapement. Swiss style movement, but no markings apart from "fast slow" on the balance cock on either side of the adjustment lever.

$400–600

60

A gold repeating pocket watch, maker Frederic Japy, French, circa 1800

5.4cm diameter, 6.5cm high

Gold gents open face quarter repeating watch. Gold case, gilt metal inner back cover inscribed "T. SEITZ in HAAG". Engine turned back, milled edge. Long round pendant, round gold bow.

White enamel dial, black Arabic hour numerals, blued steel hands numerals and hands all in Breguet style. Winding through the dial. Fusee drive, verge escapement. Quarter repeat on two gongs, operated by lifting the knob on the top of the pendant, giving it a quarter turn and depressing it. Unconventional engraved backplate covering whole of movement, finely pierced bridge balance cock, rim of one of three sides of balance cock cut away to expose the balance wheel. Silver regulator dial. Steel coqueret as end bearing for balance staff.

REFERENCE

The name "Japy" is stamped onto the plate under the dial. Frederic Japy is listed in Baillie working at Beaucourt in France near the Swiss border. He was born in 1749 and died in 1813. Clutton and Daniel in their book "Watches" say he effectively founded the modem methods of massproduced watch manufacture. He manufactured ebauches by machine tools as early as 1776.

This watch is typical of late 18th century French verge watches: see plate 358-9 of Clutton and Daniels "Watches" for a very similar looking watch.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Steiner, Sydney, in August 1971.

$800–1,200

61

A Turkish hunter watch, circa 1900

4.1cm dial diameter, 5.3cm case diameter, 6.6cm case diameter

Metal cased gents hunter watch, the front cover decorated with a foliate border surrounding a shield, the back cover with a foliate border surrounding a star in the centre and 6 smaller stars. The letters J, Wand Dare stamped on the inside of both covers. Elaborate bow, with the knob on the top of the pendant being split, so that depressing one half of it opens the front cover and depressing the other half open the back cover.

White enamel dial with Turkish numerals. The words "Viris Watch" and a picture of a steam train appear on the dial. Silver hands.

Key wind, winding through the back. Three-quarter backplate chased with a foliate pattern.

Narrow, solid balance-cock, lever escapement. Marked "Repassee en Second" and "Repasado Segundo Man".

$200–400

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62

A open-face silver watch, maker W. Davis and Sons, circa 1880

4.6cm diameter, 5.5cm high

Gents open face silver watch. Case with engine-turned back and side, central shield on back surrounded by a belt and buckle. Case bears London hallmarks for 1880. Round silver bow.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Marked "W. Davis & Sons" on dial below 12 o'clock. Gold hands.

Fusee drive, lever escapement, solid brass balance cock chased with a foliate pattern. Three and steel balance. Movement signed "Wm. Davis & Sons, Birmingham 54764".

$200–300

63

A silver pair-cased watch, maker R. Cunningham, English, circa 1804

5cm diameter, 7cm high, 6cm case diameter

Silver gents pair-cased watch, outer case and inner box plain. Long circular pendant, round bow. Birmingham hallmarks for 1804, casemaker's mark "WR", perhaps William Ryland whose mark was entered before 1801.

White enamel dial, damaged and poorly repaired at 2 o'clock. Black Roman hour numerals, Continental style hands, bullseye glass. Key wind, fusee drive, verge escapement. Table to balance cock pierced with a foliate design, mask near foot which is solid and also chased with a foliate pattern. Steel adjustment dial, with chased surround. Signed "R. Cunningham, Liverpool, No 4389". Circular pillars.

$300–500

64

A silver pair-cased pocket watch, Farquhar, English, circa 1837

5.2cm diameter, 6.8cm high, 6cm case diameter

Gents silver pair-cased watch. Both outer case and inner box plain. Inner box hallmarked London 1837, with maker's mark an incuse "LH", probably John William Hammon, in 1837 at St. John St. Road, and in 1843 at 26 1/2 Sekford St., Clerkenwell and then in 1844 at 11 Sekford Street. Long circular pendant, stirrup bow.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals. Subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands.

Fusee drive, lever escapement, solid balance cock, table and foot both chased with a foliate pattern. Backplate signed "Farquhar, London, 5006".

Circular pillars, three arm balance. Brass dust cover.

$400–600

65

A silver open-faced watch, circa 1839

5cm diameter, 5.7cm high

Silver open-faced watch. Plain back cover, short round pendant and round bow. Case bears London hallmarks for 1839 and the makers mark "GH", probably George Hammon whose incuse marks were entered in 1828 when he was at 2 Merideth Street and again in 1834 when he moved to 4 Skinner Street, Clerkenwell. He is listed as a casemaker.

Winds through the back of inner case.

White enamel dial with black Roman hour numerals. Subsidiary seconds dial. Gold spade hands.

Fusee drive lever escapement. Narrow solid balance cock, chased with floral design on foot and table, diamond end stone. Three arm steel balance. Movement not signed, bears the number 5002 and the words "Slow and Fast" near the regulator dial.

Brass dust cover.

$300–500

66

A silver pair-cased pocket watch, English, circa 1797

4.8cm diameter, 6.3cm high, 5.8cm case diameter

Silver pair cased watch, both cases plain, hallmarked London 1797. Bears case-maker's mark "TG", probably Thomas Gibbard who is listed as a watch case maker in Grimwade, first entered 1792 and again three more times until 1812.

White enamel dial, cracked, and damage around centre arbor. Black Roman hour numerals, gold hands.

Fusee drive, verge escapement. Pierced table to balance cock, symmetrical foliate pattern, mask near foot. Solid chased foot. Silver regulator dial, chased hand with index finger extended as a marker. No signature, but the number 14417 engraved on backplate.

$200–300

67

A silver open-face watch, maker Frodsham and Baker, circa 1854

4.8cm diameter, 5.7cm high

Silver open-faced watch, engine-turned back with shield in centre. Case hallmarked for London 1854, case maker's mark "DL".

White enamel dial, marked "Frodsham & Baker, Gracechurch St., London".

Black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and blued steel hands.

Key wound movement, hidden by solid rim around movement between bottom and top plates. Solid chased cock, diamond endstone. Three arm steel balance. Movement signed "Frodsham & Baker, Gracechurch Street, London, no.1636".

$400–600

A small silver pair-cased watch, maker William Johnson, circa 1744

3.7cm diameter, 5.6cm high, 5cm case diameter

Small silver pair-cased watch. Outer case and box plain, long circular pendant, stirrup bow.

Back and outer case bear a London hallmark, partially obscured in both cases but probably for 1744. Case makers mark appears to be "WB" or "WP" possibly William Bagnall (ent. 1744) or Walter Baird (ent 1749).

White enamel dial (cracked), black Arabic hour numerals, gold hands. Modem Perspex glass shaped to resemble bullseye glass.

Fusee drive, verge escapement. Pierced balance cock (both table and foot) in a foliate pattern.

Table of cock is egg shaped rather than round. Silver adjustment dial signed "Wm Johnson, Cheshunt, 75".

REFERENCE

Britten lists William Johnson 1734-1741, apprenticed to Jas Lloyd 21/10/1734 free 18/1/1741 with the attribution to Baillie. Baillie lists William Johnson 1734-17 41, and another William Johnson from Cheshunt, 1781, bankrupt. Probably the same maker as Cheshunt is only a few miles out of London.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from a Mr. de Fossart, Hobart before 1972.

$200–300

69

A ladies' 9ct gold ring watch, maker Rolex, circa 1948

1.4cm dial diameter, 1.6cm case diameter, 2.2cm ring diameter

Ladies' ring watch, 9 carat gold shank and case. Painted white face, gold hands and dots for the hours. The name "Rolex" in black and the word "precision" in black on the dial, together with the Rolex logo at 12 o'clock. Stem wind, lever escapement, 17 jewels.

The shank of the ring is marked on the inside "9 CT" and on the outside engraved with the initials "F.P.".

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Wellings at Wynnum prior to 1972.

$1,000–2,000

70

A duel time pocket watch, circa 1880

3.8cm dial diameter, 6cm high, 5cm case diameter

Silver gents hunter, engine-turned case with shield surrounded by foliate edge on front cover, short pendant, round bow. Inside inner back cover marked "Fine Silver" and "ARGENT", (from the Latin argentum meaning silver), and the number 17138.

White enamel dial, two hour dials and a seconds dial. Roman hour numerals and Arabic seconds numerals. Dial also bears the number 17138 in black.

The hands are key operated through the back of the inner case; two of the apertures are marked "Hands" for the two hour dials. The third aperture is for winding the movement with a key. Three-quarter backplate, cylinder escapement. Brass three-arm balance. No signature or number on the movement.

REFERENCE

This watch can be set to two different time zones , so could be used by someone travelling from one country to another, to enable the traveller to tell the time in his country and also the time in the country in which he is travelling. It could also be used by someone who had offices or factories in two different countries.

PROVENANCE

Purchased at an E. C. Dean & Sons auction at Wynnum, Queensland prior to 1972.

$300–500

71

A ladies 14ct gold hunter cased fob watch, circa 1910

3cm diameter, 3.7cm high

14 carat gold ladies' hunter, the front of the case decorated with swallows in flight amid foliage, one swallow set with small clear stones. The back plain, the side decorated with a geometric pattern. The mark 14 K in a rectangle on the inside of the covers, with the number 10581 on the inside of the back cover, and the number 16 on the inside of the front cover. Round bow.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, blued steel hands. Stem wound, lever escapement, movement stamped "Swiss Made" and "15 Jewels", and "3 ADJSTS" (sic).

$300–500

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A ladies 9ct gold hunter fob watch and attached bar brooch, Swiss, circa 1910

3.5cm diameter, 4.2cm high

9 carat gold ladies hunter. Case chased with floral and shell symmetrical pattern on both front and back covers, Both covers marked 9K, inside back cover gilt metal.

Case numbered 6071. White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, blued steel hands. Stem wind, cylinder escapement. Movement not signed but typical Swiss movement. Hands set by pressing knob on side of watch near stem.

Fitted with a plain 9 carat gold bar brooch from which the watch hangs via a gold swivel.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from M. Dubov, Brisbane, prior to 1972.

$200–400

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73

A 9ct gold open face ladies pocket or fob watch, makers S. Shiers and Co., Blackpool, circa 1910

3.6cm diameter, 4.6cm high

Gold ladies open-face watch, three quarter chased back and bezel with floral design, shield on lower back, marked 9K. Inner back gilt metal marked "cuivre".

Key wind cylinder escapement, typical Swiss movement of the period. Hands operated by depressing knob on the side of watch near stem. Round bow.

White dial with black hour numerals, two colour gold floral decoration around centre pin. Gold hands. Dial painted with the retailer's name, "S. Shiers & Co, Blackpool".

PROVENANCE

Purchased from D. Robinson, Jeweller, Edward Street, Brisbane, prior to 1972.

$300–400

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A ladies' hunter watch, circa 1910

3cm dial diameter, 3.5cm case diameter, 4.6cm high

Ladies' hunter watch, gold coloured case with no recognisable hallmarks, floral design chased on front and back with a blank frame (for a monogram?) on both covers. Inner back cover bears a mark consisting of a muscled arm with a rolled-up sleeve, with the hand holding a hammer.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands. Round bow. Key wind, cylinder escapement. Three-quarter backplate, solid cock with ruby end stone.

Marked on backplate "Swiss Made".

$200–400

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75

A silver open-face ladies pocket watch, Continental, circa 1910

3.8cm diameter, 4.8cm high

Ladies' silver open face watch, the back of the case chased with a symmetrical flower pattern, the centre blank. Side, bezel and rim of back cover all chased with a geometric pattern. Case marked 0.935 in a six-sided figure (a rectangle with pointed ends) and two lions rampant. The British Sterling Silver standard is .925, so it may be Continental. The case also bears the number 47442. Round silver bow.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, four gold stars surrounding the central arbor, gold floral decoration outside chapter ring, black steel hands.

Key wind, cylinder escapement. Movement not signed but typical of the Swiss movements of the period. Three arm balance.

$200–300

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A silver open-face pocket watch with gold numerals, probably Swiss, circa 1880

3.7cm diameter, 4.6cm high

Ladies' silver open face watch, the back cover decorated with a shield on a rough matt ground inside a circle with a geometric pattern outside the circle. Bezel, side and back cover decorated with a geometric pattern. Case not hallmarked but bears a mark with a crown above the words "Fine Silver". Also marked with the numbers 5926.

Silver dial with raised gold Roman hour numerals. Outer minute ring with a further outer ring with floral decoration in two-colour gold. Central engine-turned ground. Blued steel hands.

Round bow. Key wind, cylinder escapement. Movement not signed, but typical of Swiss movements of the period. Three arm balance, winding through the back.

$200–400

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77

A ladies' silver hunter pocket or fob watch, probably Swiss works, circa 1910

3.4cm diameter, 4.3cm high

Ladies' silver hunter watch, front cover with a shield in the centre, back cover with a flower in the centre, both surrounded by foliate decoration. Case marked 0.935 in a rectangle, with a lion rampant. Also marked with the number 153676, what appears to be a maker's mark of XI in an oval and further numbers 847 and a 4 beneath.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, printed with the retailer's name HH. F. Smith Brisbane". Blued steel hands, set by pressing knob on side of watch near winding stem.

Stem wind, lever (?) escapement. Three-quarter backplate, solid narrow cock. No signature or any other identifying marks.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Mr. Hunter of Cleveland prior to 1972.

$200–300

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78

A silver open-face watch with gold numerals and embellishment, circa 1865

4.6cm diameter, 5.6cm high

Gents silver open face watch. Silver case hallmarked London for 1865. Makers mark "HWG".

Engine turned back, shield in centre surrounded by a belt and buckle. Short pendant and round bow.

Silver dial, raised gold Roman hour numerals, gold decoration outside chapter ring, floral design chased in the centre on matt background. Subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel hands.

Fusee driven, lever escapement. Solid balance cock, table and foot chased with a foliate pattern.

Steel arm, steel balance. Movement not signed, bears the numbers 50427.

Brass dust cover.

$250–400

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79

A ladies gunmetal open-face fob watch, maker E. Coomber, circa 1910

3cm diameter, 4.1cm high

Ladies gunmetal open-face watch. Plain gunmetal case, no decoration. Back cover has a makers mark of the sort one might see on porcelain; both inner and outer black covers have a series of numbers including 614086 and 4291. Round bow.

White enamel dial marked with the retailer's name, E. Coomber, Brisbane. Black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial with the words "Swiss Made" around the top of the outside of the seconds' dial. Ornate blued steel hands.

Key wind, cylinder escapement. Halfback plate, solid balance cock. All plates appear to be polished steel. There is a small factory mark near the balance cock in the shape of a horseshoe enclosing a similar mark to that on the inside of the back cover.

Hands set by pressing knob on the side of the watch near winding stem.

$100–200

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A ladies open-face silver fob watch, maker EKB, circa 1910

3cm diameter, 3.9cm high

Ladies silver watch, open face. Case decorated on back with a geometric border around a diamond shaped foliate pattern enclosing a shield. Bezel decorated with a foliate pattern. Back cover bears London assay marks for imported silver, the date letter "P" for 1910 and the continental mark for silver, .925 in an oval. It also hears the numbers 15734.

White enamel dial, black Arabic hour numerals except for the number 12 which is in red. The hour numbers separated by gold dots. Blued steel hands.

Stem wind movement, three quarter back plate, solid balance cock, cylinder escarpment. Back plate stamped Swiss Made and the monogram "EKB".

$150–250

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A ladies' silver hunter pocket watch, maker Waltham, American, circa 1881

3.8cm dial diameter, 4.2cm case diameter, 5cm high

Ladies' silver hunter watch. Case decorated with a geometric design enclosing a shield on a central round engine-turned ground on the front and a floral pattern on a central round engine-turned ground on the back. Case bears Birmingham hallmarks for 1881 and the casemaker's mark "AB". Inscribed on the outside of the inner cover "Made Expressly for J. Sparrow, Launceston". Round silver bow.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals. Subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel hands, hour hand damaged. Indecipherable vestiges of the retailer's name below 12 o'clock.

Key wind, lever escapement. Three-quarter backplate, solid balance cock, two-arm bimetallic compensated balance. Marked on the backplate "Am. Watch Co., Waltham, Mass." And the words "Patent Pinion''. Numbered 1786045.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Kosminsky Galleries, Melbourne, prior to 1972.

$200–400

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82

A Nickel open face pocket watch, circa 1930

4.6cm dial diameter, 5.3cm case diameter, 6.8cm case diameter

Nickel open face gents watch. Plain case, nickel winding crown and oval bow. Inside of back cover bears the words "Pure Nickel" and an anchor with a rope twined around it.

White enamel dial with the words "Reg'd Trademark" and under that "ONWARD" below 12 o'clock. Celluloid glass, subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands. Dial cracked. Marked "Swiss Made" below seconds dial.

Stem wind, lever escapement. Nickel plates, marked "Swiss Made". Solid balance cock, twoann bi-metallic balance.

$80–120

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83

A small gold and enamel ladies' fob watch, circa 1880

2.3cm diameter, 2.8cm high

A very small and thin open face ladies' watch. Gold case, decorated with three colour enamel, white, teal and dark blue on the back. Foliate design around bow, press stud on top of pendant to open back. Small round bow.

Silver dial engraved in the centre with a floral pattern, black Roman hour numerals, blued steel hands.

Key wind, cylinder escapement, probably Swiss. The inside of the back cover is engraved: HENGERJARAS

No 1935

MUTATO IGAZITO

And below the two winding apertures: SWOBODA PANOS

PESTEN

In presentation box.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Lawrence Gould, London, January 1973.

$200–300

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A silver hunter cased pocket watch, maker Rotherhams, English, circa 1907

4cm dial diameter, 5.2cm case diameter, 6cm high

Gents silver hunter. Engine-turned case, shield surrounded by a belt and buckle in the middle of the front cover, short pendant and round bow. Case hallmarked Birmingham 1907, with case maker's mark "JR" and the number 585.

White enamel dial, marked on the dial "Rotherhams" and the word "London" beneath with an eight-pointed star between. Black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, silver hands.

Key wound movement, going barrel and lever escapement. Solid, plain, narrow balance cock with two arm bi-metallic balance. Signed on the backplate "Rotherhams, London, No 307547".

$300–500

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85

A Nickel open face watch, Swiss, circa 1910

6.5cm diameter

Nickel open face watch, very large, about 65 mm in diameter. Case plain, inside of back cover bears the number 1706765. Inside of inner cover bears the word "Switzerland", and the same number is repeated. It also bears the number 24 and under that the letter "Z". The movement is covered by flat, clear glass set in a copper-coloured bezel.

White enamel dial, very large Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Mismatched blued steel hands.

Stem wind Swiss movement, nickel plates, marked "Swiss". Two-arm bi-metallic balance. Hands set by depressing knob on the side of the watch near the winding stem.

$50–100

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A silver hunter cased pocket watch, maker Rotherhams, English, circa 1896

3.8cm dial diameter, 5cm case diameter, 6.2cm high

Gents silver hunter, plain case, brass crown on winding stem, round bow. Birmingham hallmark for 1896 and case-maker's mark "JR".

White enamel dial marked in black "Rotherhams" above an eight-pointed star which is between the letters "G" and "B". Black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands.

Stem wound movement which does not swing out of the case. Backplate fully encloses the movement; solid, narrow, plain balance cock. Two-arm bi-metallic balance. Signed on the backplate "I Ronald, Greenock" and the number 111942. Hands set by pressing the knob on the side of the watch near the winding stem.

FOOTNOTE

This watch raises a number of questions: has it had a replacement dial, been re-cased (although the movement is of the same period as the case), and where did the style of housing of the movement in the case come from? The case is older than the preceding Rotherhams, but is stem wound and not key wound.

$200–300

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87

A nickel-plated open face pocket watch, Swiss, circa 1920

4.7cm dial diameter, 5.7cm case diameter, 7.3cm high

Plain nickel-plated open face watch. Brass winding crown, round bow. Bezel screws off to allow movement to be turned out. Inside of back cover engine-turned and numbered 2621331.

White enamel dial, large black Roman hour numerals. Subsidiary seconds dial. Gold hands. Nickel-plated movement stamped "Swiss Made". Lever escapement, two-arm bi metallic balance.

$100–200

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88

A gun-metal alarm pocket watch, maker Junghams – The Glow-Worm, circa 1910

4.3cm dial diameter, 5.2cm case diameter, 6.5cm high

Gunmetal open face alarm watch. Brass crown for winding and a silvery bow. Knobs protruding from either side of the winding stem for setting the hands and the alarm. Buttons on the base to allow the watch to stand more or less upright when the back cover is opened, so that it becomes a small (bedside) table clock.

White enamel dial, black Arabic hour numerals and subsidiary seconds dial. Marked on the dial "The Glow-Worm". "Gold" hands, "gold" round dots on the outside of the hour numerals, "gold" alarm indicator. These "gold" hands and dots are presumably luminous so that they can be seen in the dark.

Stem wound movement, cylinder escapement, 11 jewels.

Back of case opens to give access to the alarm setting button, and to allow the watch to stand on end as an alarm clock.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Moore's Antiques, Brisbane prior to 1972.

$100–200

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89

A Nickel open face pocket watch, circa 1930

4.8cm case diameter, 5.6cm high

Nickel-plated flattish open face watch, very wide bezel, plain case not patterned in any way. Nickel-plated winding crown, oval brass bow.

Art deco styling.

White enamel dial, black Arabic hour numerals, luminous hands. Damage to dial between 7 and 8 o'clock.

Swiss made movement, stem wind, lever escapement. Marked "Swiss Made" and "10 jewels". Movement does not swing out of case.

$100–200

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90

A chrome case open-face watch, maker Elgin, circa 1910

4.7cm dial diameter, 5.8cm case diameter, 8cm high

Chrome case open face gents "railway" watch. The back of the watch bears an embossed picture of a train travelling along the rails in the countryside with a sailing boat on water in the background. The train and a large rock in the foreground are both copper-coloured. Chrome winding knob, round metal bow.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals. Marked "Elgin" on the dial. Subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands. Fine cracking to dial around the numeral 12, glass chipped.

Stem wind, three-quarter backplate, lever escapement, seven jewels. Bezel screws off to allow the movement to be hinged out.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Sel Smith, watchmaker, Toowoomba prior to 1972.

$100–150

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91

A rolled gold hunter watch, maker Waltham U.S.A, American, circa 1920

4.cm dial diameter, 4.9cm case diameter, 6.3cm case diameter

Gents rolled gold hunter watch. Engine-turned case, shield in centre of front cover surrounded by belt and buckle. Gilt winding crown, round bow. Inside of inner case marked "English Make, this case guaranteed to wear 10 years" and the number 497870.

White enamel dial, marked "Waltham USA".

Black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and blued steel hands.

Stem wind, lever escapement. Three-quarter backplate, solid narrow balance cock. Backplate marked "Am Watch Co, Waltham, Mass" and also "Bond St".

$100–200

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92

A chrome open-face watch, Hebdomas Patent, circa 1910

4.2cm dial diameter, 4.7cm case diameter, 6cm high

Gents open face 8-day watch in a plain chrome case, metal winding crown and round bow. White enamel dial, eccentric chapter ring in that 12 o'clock is in the customary 9 o'clock position, black Roman hour numerals, black hands. The words "Hebdomas Patent" in black in an arc above the words "8 days" in red, with the words "Swiss Made" under that.

Decorated ring outside chapter ring and decoration extending from that between the hour numerals. Flowers set into the dial where 9 and 3 would normally be. The bottom part of the dial cut away to expose a chased, narrow, bridge balance cock and the escape wheel, so that part of the movement can be seen through the dial.

Stem wind, lever escapement. The spring barrel is as large as the circumference of the watch itself. Hands are set by pressing the knob on the side of the watch near the winding stem.

PROVENANCE

Purchased from Sel Smith, watchmaker, Toowoomba prior to 1972.

$100–200

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93

A metal open-face pocket watch, Swiss, circa 1920

4cm dial diameter, 5cm case diameter, 6cm high

Silvery metal open face watch. Decorated bezel and side in a foliate pattern, the back decorated with a scene of two fishermen with fishing rods and a creel, surrounded by a foliate border. Brass winding crown, round bow. White enamel dial marked "Specially Examined" above "Swiss Made", black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, gold hands. Stem wind, three-quarter backplate, solid narrow balance cock. Movement not marked.

$100–200

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94

A metal hunter Best Patent Lever pocket watch, circa 1910

4.4cm dial diameter, 5.4cm case diameter, 6.7cm high

Copper coloured metal hunter watch. The front of the case is decorated with a foliate border, in the centre of which is a shield with its own foliate border. The back with the same foliate decoration, the centre with an urn full of flowers. The inside of both the front and back covers bear the words "Warranted manufactured of the finest material 5 years". Evidently, that warranty expired a long time ago. The back of the inside cover bears spurious marks and designs and the words "Remontoir Perfectionne".

Chased whitish metal dial, black Roman hour numerals. Marked "Best Patent Lever" and "Swiss Made". Blued steel hands.

Stem wind, lever escapement. Movement not marked but, unlike what it says on the dial, does not appear to be Swiss Made. Hands set by pressing knob on side of case near winding stem.

$100–200

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95

A rolled gold hunter watch, maker New Haven Watch Co., American, circa 1920

4.2cm dial diameter, 5cm case diameter, 6.4cm case diameter

Rolled gold hunter, engine-turned case, shield inside belt and buckle on front cover. Gilt metal winding stem and round bow. Inside of the back cover bears the mark of the Philadelphia Watchcase Co and the words "USA Victory Warranted 10 Years Case" and the number 463 8 821.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals and subsidiary seconds dial. Dial marked "New Haven Watch Co".

Stem wind lever escapement. Movement marked "Schwob Freres & Co, La ChauxdeFonds".

La Chaux-de-Fonds is one of the most important watch towns in the Canton of Neuchatel in the Swiss Jura. Also marked Swiss Made.

$100–200

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A rolled-gold half hunter pocket watch, Swiss, circa 1920

4.2cm dial diameter, 5cm case diameter, 6.5cm high

Rolled gold half hunter gents watch. Blue enamel Roman hour numerals on front cover of watch surrounding a round aperture with a glass (celluloid?) cover in the middle, through which the hands on the dial can be seen without opening the front cover. Case otherwise plain. Gilt winding crown and round bow. Inside of back cover marked "Illinois Watch Case Co, Elgin, USA" and the number 4830858. The inside cover bears the inscription "This case guaranteed to wear 10 years" and the number 4830858 is repeated.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial and blued steel hands. Dial damaged at 5 o'clock.

Stem wind Swiss made movement. Threequarter nickel-plated backplate, solid narrow brass balance cock, two-arm bi-metallic compensated balance. Movement marked "Swiss Made" and "15 Jewels".

REFERENCE

Elgin is a city situated in the state of Illinois in the USA. The National Watch Company at Elgin employed three generations of Elginites from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, when it was the largest producer of fine watches in the United States and the largest watch making complex in the world; the factory ceased production in 1965. Elgin is known for its historic architecture and landmarks from the Victorian era, including some fine examples in the Queen Anne style. Many of the most remarkable homes once belonged to National Watch Company executives. The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.

$150–250

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A Gents rolled gold hunter cased pocket watch, American, circa 1920

4.3cm dial diameter, 5cm case diameter, 6.5cm high

Gents rolled gold hunter watch, engine-turned case with a shield surrounded by a belt and buckle in the middle of the front cover. Gilt winding crown and bow. Back cover marked on the inside "Keystone Watch Case Co, C, USA". Inside cover marked "Case Guaranteed" and under that in an elongated oval "Cyclone" and under that "10 years" with the logo of the Keystone Watch Case Co under that. Also marked with the number 4016727.

White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands.

Marked on the dial "Elgin".

Stem wind, lever escapement. Two-piece backplate, solid narrow chased balance cock. Backplate marked "Elgin Nat'l Watch Co. USA, and "Seven Jewels" as well as the number 27216733.

REFERENCE

Elgin is a city situated in the state of Illinois in the USA. The National Watch Company at Elgin employed three generations of Elginites from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, when it was the largest producer of fine watches in the United States and the largest watch making complex in the world; the factory ceased production in 1965. Elgin is known for its historic architecture and landmarks from the Victorian era, including some fine examples in the Queen Anne style. Many of the most remarkable homes once belonged to National Watch Company executives. The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.

$100–200

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98

A Gents rolled gold hunter cased pocket watch, American, circa 1920

4.3cm dial diameter, 4.9cm case diameter, 6.5cm high

Gents rolled gold hunter watch. Case engineturned, with a shield surrounded by a belt and buckle in the centre of the outside of the front cover. The inside of the back cover is marked "Moon, "Trade Mark" and then symbols in circles that probably represent sun, moon and stars, and under that the initials "A.L.D.". Under that "Denison Watch Case Co. Ltd.", and under all that the number 963458. The inside cover bears the words "English make, guaranteed to be made of 2 plates of 10 c gold, with plate of composition between and to wear 20 years". It is also marked with the numbers 363458, 29 and 0. Gilt winding crown and round bow. White enamel dial, black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel hands. Stem wind, lever escapement. Two plate backplate, solid narrow chased balance cock. Backplate marked "Elgin Nat'l Watch Co., USA", "Seven Jewels", the number 10611132 and the words "safety pinion".

REFERENCE

Elgin is a city situated in the state of Illinois in the USA. The National Watch Company at Elgin employed three generations of Elginites from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, when it was the largest producer of fine watches in the United States and the largest watch making complex in the world; the factory ceased production in 1965. Elgin is known for its historic architecture and landmarks from the Victorian era, including some fine examples in the Queen Anne style. Many of the most remarkable homes once belonged to National Watch Company executives. The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.

$100–200

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99

An antique engraved brass pocket sundial 5.7cm diameter, 1.5cm height with lid closed. Brass pocket sundial; the lid screws off to allow the gnomon to be swung up from the horizontal position. The hours are marked around the edge of the dial from 4 to 12 and then on to 4 again. Hours are marked in Roman numerals, with 4 marked as IIII, instead of IV. It should work in the Southern Hemisphere, it just has to be oriented to the South instead of to the North.

$300–500

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100

A pocket weather-station dial instrument

Barometer and thermometer in the shape of a watch.

Brass case, short circular pendant, round bow. White dial, with outer ring showing air pressure indicated with a blued steel hand. Countersunk middle of dial marked with "Rain", "Change" and "Fair". Around the bottom of the centre there is a mercury thermometer with degrees marked in Fahrenheit.

$100–200

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101

A fine quality Victorian three-strand triple curb-link 14ct gold fob chain with carnelian seal and attached pinchbeck watch key, English, early 19th century 29cm long, weight 67.5 grams

$1,500–2,000

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102

A 9ct gold curb and gate-link bracelet/ chain with an attached Victorian halfsovereign, English, late 19th century

27.2cm long, weight 23.9 grams

$600–1,000

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103

An 18ct yellow gold curb-link fob chain with parrot clasps, with whites tone inset watch key and a 22ct gold half-guinea coin with the British coat of arms on one side and the head of George III on the other, English, 19th/18th century

Length 34.5cm, weight 43.7 grams

$2,000-4,000

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104

A heavy 9ct gold curb link fob chain/ necklace with Masonic attachment, English, 19th century

50cm chain length, weight 74 grams

$1,000–2,000

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105

A gilt-metal chatelaine with sewing attachments, early to mid 19th century

Gold coloured chatelaine, classical motif with three hanging panels suspended from the one with the clasp to go on a belt, together with a penknife and two lidded round containers.

$500–800

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106

A collection of three silver and gold embellished medallions and two plain silver, English, 19th century

$150–250

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107

A gold mounted black ribbon fob chain with gilt metal medallion attachment

Black ribbon fob, buckle in middle, gold swivel with disc with sailing ship and 1802 on one end, ring on the other.

$60–100

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108

Three antique silver fob chains, English, 19th century

35cm, 29cm, 21cm long

$100–150

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109

A 15ct gold Albert watch chain with double curb and rope-twist design with an attached Victorian 22ct gold 1872 sovereign, English, late 19th century

34cm chain length, weight 52.1 grams

$2,000–4,000

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110

A 9ct gold four-strand half Albert chain with attached bar, slide and swivel, English, 19th century

30cm long, weight 25.7 grams

$600–1,000

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111

A small 9ct rose and yellow gold small fob chain with hunting horn pendant, English, 19th century

11cm long, weight 7.1 grams

$200–400

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112

A rare and fine 18ct yellow gold musical fob, formed as two mythical sea-horses, English, first half of the 19th century

the base enclosing a musical mechanism activated by a lever on the side

4.3cm high, 2.7cm wide, weight 20.5 grams all in (including steel works)

$600–1,000

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113

A collection of various antique watch keys, English, 19th century and earlier

$200–400

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114

Four antique silver gun watch keys, English, 19th century

$150–250

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115

A silver open-faced ladies pocket watch, Swiss, late 19th century

with enamel dial and gilt embellishments

$120–180

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116

A collection of two antique seals, a glass miniature bottle and an acorn formed retractable miniature pencil, all 19th century or earlier

$200–400

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117

A collection of five various antique hardstone gilt metal watch keys, English, 19th century

$500–800

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118

A collection of five various antique gold and jewelled watch keys, English, 19th century

$400–600

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119

A collection of five various antique watch keys, English, 19th century

$400–600

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120

A collection of five various antique hardstone set gold and gilt metal watch keys, English, 19th century

$400–600

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121

Two antique hard-stone set gold and giltmetal watch keys, English, 19th century

$200–300

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122

A collection of six various gilt metal and gold watch-keys, English, 19th century

$200–300

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123

A collection of six various antique watch keys, 19th century

$200–300

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124

A collection of four large antique hard-stone set watch keys, English, 18th/19th century

$300–500

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125

A collection of four various antique watch keys and a hard-stone pendant, English, 19th century

$150–250

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126

A collection of Antiquarian horology society journals form the 1970s through to the mid 2000s

$100–200

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127

The Sandberg Watch Collection. Terence Camerer Cuss Antiquorum 1998, The English Watch 1585-1970, Terence Camerer Cuss Antique Collectors Club 2009, and Camerer Cuss and Co Bicentenary Exhibition catalogue 1788-1988

$50–100

Illustrated online at artvisory.com.au

128

Brittens Old Clocks and Watches and their makers Reprint 1986 and Brittens Old Clocks and watches and their makers seventh edition by Baillie, Clutton and Ilbert

$40–60

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129

A collection of reference books relating to clocks

$100–200

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130

Courtenay A Ilbert Collection, Christie's London, 6/7 November 1958, auction catalogue and various Sotheby's and Christie's auction catalogues for watches and clocks

$20–40

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131

The Art of Breguet George Daniels published by Sotheby's Parke Bernet 1977, The Art of Breguet, Habsburg Antiquorum, Geneva 14 April 1991, auction catalogue and two other watch publications

$40–60

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132

Watches, Clutton and Daniels B.T Batsford London 1965 and various books relating to watches

$50–100

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133

A collection of reference books relating to clocks

$40–60

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134

A cast iron safe with key, maker The Ajax Manufacturing Co., Sydney

84cm high, 61cm wide, 60cm deep

$100–200

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135

A cedar watch-collectors table cabinet with six segmented slide-out and fitted drawers

55cm high, 50cm wide

$100-200

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2. Artvisory Auctions as Agent

Except as otherwise stated Artvisory Pty Ltd acts as agent for the Seller.

The contract for the sale of the property is therefore made between the Seller and the Buyer.

3. Before the Sale

a) Examination of Property

Prospective Buyers are strongly advised to examine in person any property in which they are interested before the Auction takes place. Neither Artvisory nor the Seller provides any guarantee in relation to the nature of the property apart from the Limited warranty in the paragraph below. The property is otherwise sold “AS IS”

b) Catalogue and other Descriptions

All statements by Artvisory in the catalogue entry for the property or in the condition report, or made orally or in writing elsewhere, are statements of opinion and are not to be relied upon as statements of fact. Such statements do not constitute a representation, warranty or assumption of liability by Artvisory of any kind. References in the catalogue entry to the condition report to damage or restoration are for guidance only and should be evaluated by personal inspection by the bidder or a knowledgeable representative. The absence of such a reference does not imply that an item is free from defects or restoration, nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others. Estimates of the selling price should not be relied on as a statement that this is the price at which the item will sell or it’s value for any other purpose. Neither Artvisory nor The Seller is responsible for any errors or omissions in the catalogue or any supplemental material. Images are measured height by width (sight size). Illustrations are provided only as a guide and should not be relied upon as a true representation of colour or condition. Images are not shown at a standard scale. Mention is rarely made of frames (which may be provided as supplementary images on the website) which do not form part of the lot as described in the printed catalogue.

Foreign buyers should note that all transactions are in Australian dollars so there may be a small exchange rate risk. The costs associated with acquiring a good certificate will be carried by the purchaser. If the item turns out to be forged or otherwise incorrectly described, all reasonable costs will be borne by the vendor.

c) Buyers Responsibility

All property is sold “as is” without representation or warranty of any kind by Artvisory or the Seller. Buyers are responsible for satisfying themselves concerning the condition of the property and the matters referred to in the catalogue by requesting a condition report

No lot to be rejected if, subsequent to the sale, it has been immersed in liquid or treated by any other process unless the Auctioneer’s permission to subject the lot to such immersion or treatment has first been obtained in writing.

4. At the Sale

a) Refusal of Admission

Artvisory reserves the right at our complete discretion to refuse admission to the auction premises or participation in any auction and to reject any bid.

b) Registration before Bidding

Any prospective new buyer must complete and sign a registration form and provide photo-identification before bidding. Artvisory may request bank, trade or other financial references to substantiate this registration.

c) Bidding as a Principal

When making a bid, a bidder is accepting personal liability to pay the purchase price including the buyers premium and all applicable taxes, plus all other applicable charges, unless it has been explicitly agreed in writing with Artvisory before the commencement of the sale that the bidder is acting as agent on behalf of an identified third party acceptable to Artvisory and that Artvisory will only look to the principal for payment.

d) International Registrations

All International clients not known to Artvisory will be required to scan through an accredited form of photo identification and pay a deposit at our discretion in cleared funds into Artvisory’s account at least 24 hours before the commencement of the auction. Bids will not be accepted without this deposit. Artvisory also reserves the right to request any additional forms of identification prior to registering an overseas bid. This deposit can be made using a credit card, however the balance of any purchase price in excess of $5,000 can not be charged to this card without prior arrangement.

This deposit is redeemable against any auction purchase.

e) Absentee bids

Artvisory will use reasonable efforts to execute written bids delivered to us AT LEAST 24 Hours before the sale for the convenience of those clients who are unable to attend the auction in person. If we receive identical written bids on a particular lot, and at the auction these are the highest bids on that lot, then the lot will be sold to the person whose written bid was received and accepted first. Execution of written bids is a free service undertaken subject to other commitments at the time of the sale and we do not accept liability for failing to execute a written bid or for errors or omissions which may arise. It is the bidder’s responsibility to check with Artvisory after the auction if they were successful. Unlimited or “Buy” bids will not be accepted.

f) Telephone bids

Priority will be given to overseas and interstate bidders. Please refer to the catalogue for the Telephone Bids form. Arrangements for this service must be confirmed AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR to the auction commencing. Artvisory accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any errors or failure to execute bids. In telephone bidding the buyer agrees to be bound by all terms and conditions listed here and accepts that Artvisory cannot be held responsible for any miscommunications in the process. The success of telephone bidding cannot be guaranteed due to circumstances that are unforeseen. Buyers should be aware of the risk and accept the consequences should contact be unsuccessful at the time of Auction. You must advise Artvisory of the lots in question and you will be assumed to be a buyer at the minimum price of 75% of estimate (ie. reserve) for all such lots. Artvisory will advise Telephone Bidders who have registered at least 24 hours before the auction of any relevant changes to descriptions, withdrawals or any other sale room notices.

G) Online Bidding

Artvisory offers an online bidding service via Invaluable.com. When bidding online the buyer agrees to be bound by all terms and conditions listed here by Artvisory and agrees to pay any fees charged in regard to any purchases made via Invaluable.com.

Artvisory accepts no responsibility for any errors, failure to execute bids or any other miscommunications regarding this process. It is the online bidder’s responsibility to ensure the accuracy of the relevant information regarding bids, lot numbers and contact details.

H) Reserves

Unless otherwise indicated, all lots are offered subject to a reserve, which is the confidential minimum price below which the Lot will not be sold. The reserve will not exceed the low estimate printed in the catalogue. The auctioneer may open the bidding on any Lot below the reserve by placing a bid on behalf of the Seller. The auctioneer may continue to bid on behalf of seller up to the amount of the reserve, either by placing consecutive bids or by placing bids in response to other bidders.

I) Auctioneers Discretion

The Auctioneer has the right at his absolute and sole discretion to refuse any bid, to advance the bidding in such a manner as he may decide, to withdraw or divide any lot, to combine any two or more lots and, in the case or error or dispute and whether during or after the sale, to determine the successful bidder, to continue the bidding, to cancel the sale or to re-offer and resell the item in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, then Artvisory’s sale record is conclusive.

J) Successful bid and passing of risk

Subject to the auctioneer’s discretion, the highest bidder accepted by the auctioneer will be the buyer and the striking of his hammer marks the acceptance of the highest bid and the conclusion of a contract for sale between the Seller and the Buyer. Risk and responsibility for the lot (including frames or glass where relevant) passes immediately to the Buyer.

K) Indicative Bidding steps, etc.

Artvisory reserves the right to refuse any bid, withdraw any lot from sale, to place a reserve on any lot and to advance the bidding according to the following, at the auctioneers discretion:

Increment Amount Dollar Range

$20

$0–$500

$50 $500–$1,000

$100

$200

$500

5. After the Sale

a) Buyers Premium

In addition to the hammer price, the buyer agrees to pay to Artvisory the buyer's premium. The buyer’s premium is 26% of the hammer price plus GST. (Goods and Services Tax) where applicable.

b) Payment and passing of title

The buyer must pay to the company trust account managed by KK Partners Pty Ltd Chartered Accountants the full amount due (comprising the hammer price, buyer's premium and any applicable taxes and GST) not later than 3 days after the auction date.

The buyer will not acquire title for the lot until Artvisory receives full payment in cleared funds, and no goods under any circumstances will be released without confirmation of cleared funds received. This applies even if the buyer wishes to send items interstate or overseas.

Payment can be made by direct transfer, cash (not exceeding $5,000AUD, if wishing to pay more than $5,000AUD then this must be deposited directly into the company trust account and bank receipt supplied) and Eftpos (please check your daily limit). Payments can also be made by credit card in person with a 1.43% (inc GST) merchant fee for Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Credit card payments where the card-holder is not present, can not be accepted unless a scanned image of the card and signature is supplied (that corresponds with the supplied signature on the bidding or registration forms). Personal cheques are only accepted with prior arrangement and funds must be cleared before goods will be released. Bank cheques are subject to three days clearance.

The buyer is responsible for any bank fees and charges applicable for the transfer of funds into Artvisory’s company trust account.

c) Collection of Purchases & Insurance

Artvisory is entitled to retain items sold until all amounts due to us have been received in full in good cleared funds. Subject to this, the Buyer shall collect purchased lots within 3 days from the date of the sale unless otherwise agreed in writing between Artvisory and the Buyer.

At the fall of the hammer, insurance is the responsibility of the purchaser.

d) Packing, Handling and shipping

$1,000–$2,000

$2,000–$5,000

$5,000–$10,000

$1,000 $10,000–$20,000

$2,000 $20,000–$50,000

$5,000

$10,000

$20,000

$50,000

$50,000–$100,000

$100,000–$200,000

$200,000–$500,000

$500,000–$1,000,000

Absentee bids must follow these increments and any bids that don’t follow the steps will be rounded up to the nearest acceptable bid.

Artvisory will be able to suggest local, national and international carriers and takes no responsibility whatsoever for the actions of any recommended third party carrier. Artvisory can pack and handle goods purchased at the auction by agreement, however will take no responsibility for damage, a charge may be made for this service. All packing, shipping, insurance, postage & associated charges will be borne by the purchaser.

e) Cultural heritage Export Licences

Unless otherwise agreed by us in writing, the fact that the buyer wishes to apply for an export licence does not affect his or her obligation to make full payment immediately, nor our right to charge interest or storage charges on late payment. It is the Buyer’s responsibility to check Australia’s Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage Act 1986 before purchase. If the Buyer requests Artvisory to apply

for an export licence then we shall be entitled to charge a fee for this service. We shall not be obliged to rescind a sale nor to refund any interest or other expenses incurred by the Buyer where payment is made by the Buyer in circumstances where an export licence is not granted.

f) Remedies for non-payment

If the Buyer fails to make full payment immediately, Artvisory is entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights or remedies (in addition to asserting any other rights or remedies available under the law)

i) to charge interest at such a rate as we shall reasonably decide

ii) to hold the defaulting Buyer liable for the total amount due and to commence legal proceedings for it’s recovery along with interest, legal fees and costs to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law

iii) to cancel the sale

iv) to resell the property publicly or privately on such terms as we see fit

v) to pay the Seller an amount up to the net proceeds payable in respect of the amount bid by the defaulting Buyer. In these circumstances the defaulting Buyer can have no claim upon Artvisory in the event that the item(s) are sold for an amount greater than the original invoiced amount.

vi) to set off against any amounts which Artvisory may owe the Buyer in any other transactions, the outstanding amount remaining unpaid by the Buyer.

vii) where several amounts are owed by the Buyer to us, in respect of different transactions, to apply any amount paid to discharge any amount owed in respect of any particular transaction, whether or not the Buyer so directs.

viii) to reject at any future auction any bids made by or on behalf of the Buyer or to obtain a deposit from the Buyer prior to accepting any bids.

ix) to exercise all the rights and remedies of a person holding security over any property in our possession owned by the Buyer whether by way of pledge, security interest or in any other way, to the fullest extent permitted by the law of the place where such property is located. The Buyer will be deemed to have been granted such security to us and we may retain such property as collateral security for such Buyer’s obligations to us.

x) to take such other action as Artvisory deem necessary or appropriate

If we do sell the property under paragraph (iv), then the defaulting Buyer shall be liable for payment of any deficiency between the total amount originally due to us and the price obtained upon reselling as well as for all costs, expenses, damages, legal fees and commissions and premiums of whatever kinds associated with both sales or otherwise arising from the default.

If we pay any amount to the Seller under paragraph (v) the Buyer acknowledges that Artvisory shall have all of the rights of the Seller, however arising, to pursue the Buyer for such amount.

g) Failure to collect purchases

Where purchases are not collected within 3 days from the sale date, whether or not payment has been made, we shall be permitted to remove the property to a warehouse at the buyer’s expense, and only release the items after payment in full has been made of removal, storage handling, insurance and any other costs incurred, together with payment of all other amounts due to us.

6. Extent of Artvisory Liability

Artvisory agrees to refund the purchase price in the circumstances of the Limited Warranty set out in paragraph 7 below. Apart from that, neither the Seller nor we, nor any of our employees or agents are responsible for the correctness of any statement of whatever kind concerning any lot, whether written or oral, nor for any other errors or omissions in description or for any faults or defects in any lots. Except as stated in paragraph 7 below, neither the Seller ourselves, our officers, agents or employees give any representation warranty or guarantee or assume any liability of any kind in respect of any lot with regard to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, description, size, quality, condition, attribution, authenticity, rarity, importance, medium, provenance, exhibition history, literature or historical relevance. Except as required by local law any warranty of any kind is excluded by this paragraph.

7. Limited Warranty

Subject to the terms and conditions of this paragraph, the Seller warrants for the period of thirty days from the date of the sale that any property described in this catalogue (noting such description may be amended by any saleroom notice or announcement) which is stated without qualification to be the work of a named author or authorship is authentic and not a forgery. The term “Author” or “authorship” refers to the creator of the property or to the period, culture, source, or origin as the case may be, with which the creation of such property is identified in the catalogue.

The warranty is subject to the following:

i) it does not apply where a) the catalogue description or saleroom notice corresponded to the generally accepted opinion of scholars and experts at the date of the sale or fairly indicated that there was a conflict of opinions, or b) correct identification of a lot can be demonstrated only by means of a scientific process not generally accepted for use until after publication of the catalogue or a process which at the date of the publication of the catalogue was unreasonably expensive or impractical or likely to have caused damage to the property.

ii) the benefits of the warranty are not assignable and shall apply only to the original buyer of the lot as shown on the invoice originally issued by Artvisory when the lot was sold at Auction.

iii) the Original Buyer must have remained the owner of the lot without disposing of any interest in it to any third party

iv) The Buyer’s sole and exclusive remedy against the Seller in place of any other remedy which might be available, is the cancellation of the sale and the refund of the original purchase price paid for the lot less the buyers premium which is non refundable. Neither the Seller nor Artvisory will be liable for

any special, incidental nor consequential damages including, without limitation, loss of profits not for interest.

v) The Buyer must give written notice of claim to us within thirty days of the date of the Auction. The Seller shall have the right, to require the Buyer to obtain two written opinions by recognised experts in the field, mutually acceptable to the Buyer and Artvisory to decide whether or not to cancel the sale under warranty.

vi) the Buyer must return the lot to Seller in the same condition that it was purchased.

8. Severability

If any part of these Conditions of Sale is found by any court to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that part shall be discounted and the rest of the Conditions shall continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

9. Copyright

The copyright of all images, illustrations and written material produced by Artvisory relating to a lot including the contents of this catalogue, is and shall remain the property at all times of Artvisory and shall not be used by the Buyer, nor by anyone else without our prior written consent. Artvisory and the Seller make no representation or warranty that the Buyer of a property will acquire any copyright or other reproduction rights in it.

10. Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions and any matters concerned with the foregoing fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the state in which the auction is held.

11. Pre-Sale Estimates

Artvisory publishes with each catalogue our opinion as to the estimated price range for each lot. These estimates are approximate prices only and are not intended to be definitive. They are prepared well in advance of the sale and may be subject to revision. Interested parties should contact Artvisory prior to auction for updated pre-sale estimates and starting prices.

12. Sale results

Artvisory will provide auction results, which will be available as soon as possible after the sale. Results will include buyer’s premium. These results will be posted at www.artvisory.com.au.

13. Goods and Service Tax

In accordance with A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 Artvisory Auctions will collect on behalf of the Australian tax office (ATO) a Goods and Service Tax (GST) of 10% on all applicable transactions. GST is applicable on the hammer price in the case where the seller is selling property that is owned by an entity registered for GST. GST is also applicable on the hammer price in the case where the seller is not an Australian resident. These lots are denoted by a dagger symbol † placed next to the estimate.

GST is also applicable on the buyer’s premium.

Overseas buyers and buyers non-resident in Australia will not be charged GST on both hammer price and premiums under the following conditions:

1. The items are exported through a Artvisory approved freight company including Australia Post

2. The items are exported within 60 days of the date of the sale

The invoice supplied by Artvisory for purchases will be regarded as a Tax invoice for GST purposes.

14. Resale Royalty Scheme

Under the legal obligations of the Resale Royalty Scheme for Visual Artists Act 2009, sellers must provide the following information to comply with the act:

• was the artwork acquired after 8 June 2010?

• is the sale/reserve price (including GST) $1,000 or more?

• is the artist from Australia or a country listed in the Regulations to the Act?

• is the artist alive, or deceased less than 70 years?

The seller:

i) acknowledges that he or she understands his or her legal obligations under the Resale Royalty for Visual Artists Act 2009 (the Act);

ii) undertakes to comply with all requirements of the Act, including by providing its agent, the company, with accurate information sufficient for compliance with sections 28 and 29 of the Act;

iii) undertakes to indemnify the company for any loss incurred by the company as a result of the vendor’s failure to comply with any of the vendor’s legal obligations under the Act; and

iv) acknowledges that if he or she fails to comply with any of his or her legal obligations under the Act, the company may provide the vendor’s name and contact details to Copyright Agency Limited (CAL).

Lots subject to payment of the Resale Royalty Scheme will be denoted by the §. The Australian Resale Royalty is a flat rate of 5% on the hammer price (including GST). The Australian Resale Royalty is payable by the buyer in addition to the buyers premium plus any applicable GST.