Lewis Walduck
Cataloguer
Lot 117
An interesting 18th century Anglo-French two-handed brass lantern clock
2 July 2025, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,000
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An interesting 18th century Anglo-French two-handed brass lantern clock
The bell strap with baluster finial and four arms terminating in notched ends to locate onto the four robust urn finials, over three foliate scroll frets, the foremost finely engraved and inscribed with ownership initials 'B.L', raised on tapering pillars and ball feet. The 7 inch Roman and Arabic chapter ring with fleur-de-lyse half hour markers, iron hour and minute hands and alarm setting disc, the remainder of the centre engraved with a foliate wreath of berries. The two-train, weight-driven movement with anchor escapement (the pendulum hung from a vertical rod with hooped wire suspension) and countwheel strike on a bell via the vertically mounted hammer arbor (both the hour and alarm hammers rising through the top plate and through a pair of 'fish tail' brass cocks). With hoop and spike fixing. 44cm (17ins) high.
Footnotes
Half Time Hoop Wheels
In clocks with count wheel striking the hoop on the third wheel usually has a single gap, this designed to allow a single blow of the hammer for each revolution. A half time hoop wheel has two gaps this allowing two blows of the hammer at each revolution. This action conserves energy.
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