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A Regency Three Train Bracket Clock Handley & Moore [makers] No…
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Melbourne
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18-Nov-2014
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A Regency Three Train Bracket Clock Handley & Moore [makers] No 655 Clerkenwell Close, London, circa 1810 370 mm x 240 mm x 500 mm high. Contained in the original ebonised pearwood and oak London arch top case with fine bolection mouldings. With reeded quarter columns to the front corners, all original brass captials and bases, cast brass carrying handles and ogee feet. The dial surround and sides with original fretted and engraved sound panels now backed with crimson silk. This beautiful specimen of mechanical skill is a three part ¼ striking and repeating clock, with pinned music barrel driving the individual ¼ peals, with anchor escapement, 8 inch dial, striking the quarters on nine bells. It has an escapement of 8 day duration, from a triple fuzee with steel ratchets and chains, also telling the days of the month with regulation on the 12 inch pendulum. The dial is finely enamelled, with the makers name, address, and numbered. The hands original and of a Handley and Moore pattern . The three keys replaced, though old. The workshop order book for Handley and Moore has not been located. The number of 655 would suggest a date c. 1810. The numbering of high quality clocks allowed the makers to provide the customer with ongoing servicing of the clock. The clock is also signed and finely engraved to the back of the movement and pendulum bob. Provenance: W. F Bradshaw Antiques. Private collection, Woollahra NSW prior to 1980. Ros Palmer Sydney and Tasmania from 1996. Sold to W. Oakman August 2011, $11,500. Reference: G.H Baillie Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Page 142: Handley and Moore 1798- 1824. Handley and Moore was a clock - making partnership between George Handley and John Moore of Clerkenwell Close, London. They were fine and well known clockmakers working from 1798 until death of Handley in 1824, after which Moore continued alone. The partnership supplied many movements and clocks to top grade makers of the period and used a number of distinctive features on their movements, such as the style of border engraving to the back-plate. Both Handley and Moore were apprentices to John Thwaites in the late 18th century. A two train bracket clock by Handley and Moore is illustrated in Cezinsky and Webster
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