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A fine French carriage clock, Moise Bolviller, Paris, numbered…
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Melbourne
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8-Aug-2022
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A fine French carriage clock, Moise Bolviller, Paris, numbered 11, circa 1840, Eight-day repeating movement with alarm and date, bell striking, the lever platform escapement with helical hairspring, the enamelled Roman numeral dial with sweep seconds hand and subsidiary Arabic numeral date and alarm dials, signed 'Bolviller a Paris', the finely engraved brass gorge case with bail handle and bevelled glazing, with the original black leather carrying case with the remains of an early manuscript label to its underside, 15 cm high (handle lowered), 10 cm wide, 8 cm deep. Other Notes: a Bolviller clock of very similar appearance is described and illustrated in C. Alix and P. Bonnert, carriage clocks - their history and Development (1974), pp 71-73, pp 158-159, pl. VII/3, and dated there to around 1840., the clock Alix and Bonnert described and illustrated was numbered 2 by Bolviller; the backplate of the present clock is engraved '11' (inverted)., the clock was restored by Ken Hose in 2012 and had a major service by Patrick O'Neil in 2016.
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Horology (Clocks & watches): Clocks - Carriage