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A rare silver pair-cased pocket…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
22-Oct-2024
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Description:
A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Thomas Gorsuch English Circa 1710 4.8 cm diameter, 6.5 cm high, 5.8 cm case diameter. A rare silver pair-cased pocket watch, maker Thomas Gorsuch. English Circa 1710. 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. Dimensions: 4.8 cm diameter, 6.5 cm high, 5.8 cm case diameter
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Category:
Horology (Clocks & watches): Watches - Pocket & Fob