€6,500
An important English three-train tortoiseshell Bracket Clock, of c.1740, its break-arch brass dial signed ‘Abraham Ferron’ with a rolling moon with engraved faces surrounded by an age-of-moon dial in its arch, along with ‘Strike/Silent’ and ‘Chime/Silent’ dials, its dial with mock-pendulum and date apertures and highly engraved with foliate scrolls centred by a Tudor rose; its triple-fusee movement with highly engraved backplate with floral and foliate designs and signed ‘Abraham Ferron, St. Annes Churchyard’, quarter chiming on eight bells and striking on a further bell; its tortoiseshell case with extensive gilt-brass banding and flambeau-brass finials and an elaborate brass handle, and pierced-brass frets backed by silk to front and sides.
Abraham Ferron, son of Louis Ferron watchmaker of St Ann, Westminster, was apprenticed to Stephen Gugeonny in 1725, and a Member of the London Clockmakers Company from 1737 to 1756. By 1749, he had moved from St. Annes to Church Street.
Some damage to veneer in places. Crack to glass - to right side of clock .
Sold as a mechanical instrument with no guarantee as to working order.
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