Lot n° 1
A good mid-19th century English carriage clock with engine turned silver dial Thomas Frederick Cooper, London No. 2471 Thomas Frederick Cooper, London No. 2471
The serpentine shaped carrying handle over a circular bevelled glass observation window, the bevelled top set with four turned minaret style finials over Doric three quarter columns, terminating in block feet and a ribbed base, with glazed sides and a solid rear door with sprung catch. The 2.25 inch silvered Roman dial with dotted minute ring framing the polished chapter ring and gilt Breguet style hands reading against the finely engine turned centre signed in an oval name cartouche T. F. Cooper, London. The movement with a finely shaped, fully jewelled, platform with engraved balance cock, diamond endstone with cut and compensated bimetallic balance to an underslung lever escapement, the plates united by four pillars secured to the back plate by finely blued steel screws and powered by a fine chain fusee with maintaining power, the spring barrel set in a shaped plate secured to the backplate by three blued steel screws. Boldly signed T. F. Cooper, 6 Calthorpe Street, Gray's Inn Road, London, No. 2471. Ticking.
15cms (6ins) high.
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