Lot 44
A Rare late 19th century French giant gorge cased striking and repeating carriage clock Drocourt, no.35490 2
16 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,570 inc. premium
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A Rare late 19th century French giant gorge cased striking and repeating carriage clock
Drocourt, no.35490
The case with rippled handle over a rectangular bevelled glass inspection panel and matching side panels, on a plinth base with the inscription 'Presented to Sergeants Mess 1st Coldstream Guards by Major Marquis of Winchester September 1898.' The rectangular white enamel Roman dial with bold black numerals and blued-steel spade hands, the two train movement with large gilt lever platform escapement with compensated bimetallic balance, striking the hours and half hours on a coiled blued steel gong. The backplate signed and numbered. Striking and intermittently ticking. Sold with an associated winding key. 26cms (10ins) high (2)
The case with rippled handle over a rectangular bevelled glass inspection panel and matching side panels, on a plinth base with the inscription 'Presented to Sergeants Mess 1st Coldstream Guards by Major Marquis of Winchester September 1898.' The rectangular white enamel Roman dial with bold black numerals and blued-steel spade hands, the two train movement with large gilt lever platform escapement with compensated bimetallic balance, striking the hours and half hours on a coiled blued steel gong. The backplate signed and numbered. Striking and intermittently ticking. Sold with an associated winding key. 26cms (10ins) high (2)
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The proceeds from the sale of this lot will go towards the Charitable Funds of the Coldstream Guards.
Augustus John Henry Beaumont Paulet 15th Marquis of Winchester (6 February 1858-11 December 1899) was educated at Eton College and King's College, London. He succeeded his father to the peerage in 1887. He was a Major in the Coldstream Guards and served in the Second Boer War. He presented this clock to the Sergeants Mess in September 1898 and was tragically killed about a year later at Magersfontein, South Africa, on 11 December 1899. He was mentioned in despatches, as a man who 'displayed almost reckless courage.'
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