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Lot 48

Two interesting timepiece movements with white metal barrels and fusees
E.W. Lovely & Co Ltd 2

11 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £125 inc. premium

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Two interesting timepiece movements with white metal barrels and fusees

E.W. Lovely & Co Ltd
Both movements with shaped brass plates united by three steel pillars, stamped 'Patent Applied For', the large spring barrels and substantial fusee cones each made from a white metal alloy, the going train wheels of six crossings, the 'scape wheel of four and with white metal pallets, the pendulum suspended from a white metal block secured to the rear and with a wooden rod and heavy brass bob.
Both movements with pendulums, one with a pair of hands and now mounted in a custom-made wall case with open dial centre.

The wall case 38cms (15ins) diameter (2)

Footnotes

Notes written by Beresford Hutchinson accompany this lot, namely a train count
"G.W. 144 (!)
Centre 72 & 12
3rd 60 & 12
4th 60 & 12
'Scape 30 & 12"

Various address details, and a photograph taken in 2002 of Cavendish Place, Eastbourne.

A photocopied page of The Horological Journal March 1921 also accompanies the lot:
"E.W. LOVELY & CO, LTD.
Cavendish Place, Eastbourne. This firm are one of the newcomers, and it is of interest to know that the clock they now produce is more or less an accident and is the outcome of experiments carried out for the production of an apparatus for the stabilisation of aeroplanes. These clocks are at present obtainable in the typical office dial pattern, and domestic designs will be produced later. These clocks possess many novel features which we hope to describe more fully in a later issue."

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