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France, possibly Andre Romain Guilmet, a rare, automated, oscillating cylinder steam engine timepiece, the honey onyx square base on gilt feet, and supporting the black bronze boiler with cove molded top and bottom, below the engine itself, comprised of a large, A frame supported, spoked flywheel, connected to a rocking cylinder through a cranked linkage, the movement powering the automation contained in a black enclosure behind the engine, the enclosure top with a rotating governor in a bell shaped frame behind the wheel, surrounded by four silvered columns, and surmounted by an X shaped, arched frame with central spherical finial, the 11 jewel lever platform movement with Roman numeral silvered dial and blued steel Breguet style hands -
France, a rare, automated, patinated bronze locomotive form compendium, the stepped, black slate base on gilt feet with patinated rails below the large, steam locomotive, the darker surfaces highlighting the nickel, brass, and copper appointments, the engine front with cow catcher, the boiler with aneroid barometer, bell, steam dome with valve and flared stack with centigrade thermometer, the cab with shallow pitched roof, slender columns at the corners, and containing the clock and dial, a concealed movement in the base providing power to drive the six wheels, connecting rods, and piston, roman numeral brass dial, blued steel Breguet style hands, and 8 day, two train pendule de Paris movement -
France- Andre Romain Guilmet, a rare Industrial steam boiler compendium with centrifugal governor pendulum, the stepped black slate base supporting a compass on a decorative stand, before a boiler with gilt and patinated silver surfaces and ribbed, copper base matching the clock case, the top having a cylindrical chamber with vent pipes attached to gauge form, flanking, white dialed thermometer and barometer, and concealing the helical suspension spring controlling the centrifugal governor form pendulum, Arabic numeral gilt dial, blued steel distaff hands, and 8 day pendule de Paris time and strike movement with Guilmet's mark and modifications -
France, a rare, gilt and patinated, automated steam engine compendium, the horizontal boiler mounted to a cast floor with crosshatched surface, and resting on a black slate base, boiler fitted with an 8 day, timepiece and aneroid barometer, both with silvered dials and flanking the central thermometer with silvered scale, and surmounted by the engine flywheel, governor, cylinder and valve, the flywheel, piston, and governor powered by a movement concealed in the cylinder, the motion started and stopped through the screw in the cylinder valve, the valve front with plaque marked "D. H. Depose" -
Aaron Willard, Boston, Mass., 8 day, weight driven, brass movement Massachusetts shelf clock. -
A. Ecalle, Horloger de la Marine, 93- 94 Palais Royal, Paris, a monumental Belgian slate, gilt bronze mounted, grand sonnerie mantel clock, on gilt, gadrooned feet, the base with incised panels and deep cavetto molding, and hung with a gilt, fruit and foliate festoon, the recessed corners with gilt caryatids supporting the cavetto molded cornice and arch top, the arch with central lion mask and foliate ornament issuing from its mouth, the top with gilt scrolls flanking a stone plinth surmounted by a turned, gadrooned and acanthus ornamented finial, engraved, gilt dial with scrolling foliage, Roman numeral chapter ring and subsidiary sonnerie/silence selector, and with retailers name and address within a blank reserve below the dial, finely cut and finished blued steel hands, and massive three train, quarter striking fusee movement, sounding the quarters and hours on five gongs -
Aaron Willard, Boston, Mass., 8 day, weight driven, brass movement Massachusetts shelf clock. Case is stamped 355. -
Regina Music Box Company, Rahway, N.J., "Style 50" table top music box, playing 15.5 inch discs on a double comb, short bed plate, spring wound movement in quarter sawn oak serpentine case with matching disc cabinet, with 35 discs including many waltzes. -
Rural Massachusetts or Maine or New Hampshire, Massachusetts-style shelf clock, 6 (yes 6) day, weight driven brass movement in a birch case with a painted iron dial and steel hands. -
Emperor Clock Co. Ltd., London, a reproduction Congreve rolling ball timepiece, fusee movement with separate dials for minutes, hours and seconds, the plates supported by four turned columns, all resting on ball feet, the tray with zig zag path for the steel ball "oscillator" suspended below the movement, and with rectangular base, spherical leveling feet, and conforming glass dome, serial #053 from an edition of 250. -
France, a late 19th century Boulle work, pendule religieuse style clock with matching bracket, the brass inlaid case on gilt feet, the base with applied foliate ornament, half caryatid corners, and gilt cornice molding, the incurved top also with acanthus mounts, and eight urn finials, shaped door, before a gilt dial plate, mounted with roman numeral, white enamel cartouches, above addorsed horn blowers and central cartouche, blued steel hands, 8 day, two train pendule de Paris movement marked "MF&F", the clock resting on a cyma reversa shaped, brass inlaid, bronze mounted bracket, matching the case -
Eureka Clock Co., London, battery powered mantel clock with oversized balance wheel movement on a brass base and a cream color porcelain dial, s#2550 -
John Halifax Japanned Bracket Clock, London, with composite brass arch dial, silvered roman numeral chapter ring signed at six o'clock position, "John Halifax/London", recessed date aperture and faux pendulum, regulation dial in the arch, blued steel hands, matted centers and brass spandrels, the molded top case with japanned decoration of a Chinese pagoda and brass carrying handle at the top, dial door with floral decoration and pierced sound frets and sides both backed with red fabric, all resting on short bracket feet, the rear glazed door opens to the eight day, cable fusee, verge escapement movement with rack striking on the hour, back plate fully engraved with centered woman playing a violin, rise and fall pendulum with small brass bob and pendulum holder. -
Silas B. Terry, Terryville, Conn., diminutive shelf clock, 30 hour, time and strike, spring driven movement in a reverse ogee mahogany veneer case with a painted wooden dial and reverse painted dial surround and stenciled William B. Fenn lower tablet -
Chelsea Clock Co., Chelsea, Mass., "Commodore Base & Ball", 8 day, time and strike brass lever movement ship's bell mantel clock with an 8 1/2" dial retailed by S. A. MacQueen & Co., Philadelphia. Serial No. 86426. -
England, a monumental, quarter chiming table or bracket clock, the rosewood veneered and grain painted architectural case with molded base supporting a pair of columns with carved capitals below the carved entablature and broken pediment top, the sides with pierced, textile backed fret, composite dial with silvered roman numeral chapter ring, and subsidiary chime control and regulation at top, the dial also bearing an engraved plaque "The Association of Diamond Merchants, Jewellers, and Silversmiths, 6, Grand Hotel Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London", three train fusee movement chiming on eight bells or four gongs, and striking the hours on a larger, fifth gong -
George Baker and Co., late G. Baker-Troll & Co., Geneva, Switzerland, 21" cylinder music box playing 12 tunes on three combs over three octaves in a burl walnut and Carpathian elm burled veneer case with ebonized accents -
England, for Theodore B. Starr, New York, ebonized, quarter striking bracket clock, the molded base with gilt scroll feet, gilt, fluted columns supporting the cornice and dome top, and flanking the cast, foliate bezel and composite dial with Roman numeral chapter ring and strike selector in the arch, sides with pierced frets and carrying handles, top with five pineapple finials, three train fusee movement chiming on eight bells, and striking the hours on a gong -
Seth Thomas Clock Co., Thomaston, Conn., "Santa Fe" shelf clock with a spring driven, 8 day, time and strike lyre movement in a walnut case with applied metal leaf decorations. -
Germany, Lenzkirch, 8 day, time and strike, spring driven brass movement marble and brass figural mantel clock. Serial No. 547038.