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MOVEMENT
The month duration movement is in exceptionally original condition, with six latched and ring-turned baluster pillars; the trains have typical ‘fat’ steel pinions and convex brass collets, the going train has anchor escapement with the original butterfly nut-suspended brass-rod pendulum with a further butterfly rating nut a few inches above the brass-jacketed pendulum bob; together with a matched pair of month-going brass weights.
PROVENANCE
The Wetherfield Collection, dispersed in 1928 by Vernay & Jussel, NY. Sold to Arthur Liedersdorf, U.S.A.
Sotheby’s, London, 28th June 1974, lot 164, sold for £22,500.
To give the Sotheby’s 1974 price of £22,500 some context, in an earlier 1974 sale Sotheby’s sold Tompion table clock No. 205, for £12,000; and in the same sale another pre-numbered Tompion table clock sold for £16,000.
ILLUSTRATED
F.J. Britten, Old English Clocks, (The Wetherfield Collection), London, 1907, page 24, fig. 26.
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