A GEORGE III BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE/BRACKET CLOCK WITH...

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£800 - £1,200

A GEORGE III BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE/BRACKET CLOCK WITH CONCENTRIC CALENDARGRAVELL AND TOLKEIN, LONDON, EARLY 19th CENTURYThe five pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by lenticular bob pendulum, the geometric border engraved backplate with pendulum holdfast and engraved serial number 3256 to upper right-hand corner, the 8 inch cream painted break-arch Roman numeral dial signed GRAVELL & TOLKEIN, LONDON, 3256 to centre within date-of-the-month concentric calendar scale and with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track, with brass arrow calendar pointer and delicate blued steel hands beneath subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT setting dial to arch, in a break-arch 'triple pad-top' case with three brass fillet-edged panels to the curved top surface bordered by a further brass quarter-round moulding capping the canted cornice, over brass fillet bordered glazed dial aperture to the opening front incorporating vertical brass strips to front angles, the sides with conforming rectangular apertures inset with brass diamond lozenge lattice sound frets and the rear with arch-glazed door set within the frame of the case, on two-tier skirt base with ogee over cavetto brass mouldings over brass ogee bracket feet.47.5cm (18.75ins) high, 35.5cm (14ins) wide, 24cm (9.5ins) deep.Gravell and Tolkien who are recorded in Baillie, G. H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as taking on Eardley Norton's business in 1792, and working from St. John's Clerkenwell, London 1795-1820. Gravell and Tolkien continued the serial numbering system instigated by Norton, which in-turn was continued by Gravell and Son and then William junior alone (who subsequently worked from Charterhouse Square and served Master of the Clockmakers' Company 1841-42).