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Science, Technology & Clocks
featuring the Ted Crom Horological Tool Collection & Library
Sale 2502 May 1, 2010 Marlborough
Science, Technology & Clocks
featuring the Ted Crom Horological Tool Collection & Library

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Chris H. Bailey has served the American Clock & Watch Museum in various capacities for over 30 years. He joined the staff as
Curator/Librarian and the first full-time employee on February 15, 1972. He became Managing Director the following year,
and subsequently served at different times as Curator, Librarian, Horologist, and Acting Executive Director. His tenure was
marked by remarkable growth in the museum’s physical plant, the horological collections, and the public program offerings in
the museum and around Connecticut and the nation. He is a nationally and internationally known authority on American clocks.
Chris is the author of numerous publications and articles about the American clock & watch industry. His most recent
project, Fifty Years of Time: The First 50 Years of the American Clock & Watch Museum, was completed in 2009. Chris retired in
early 2010 and his expertise will be sorely missed by the horological community. His many friends at the American Clock &
Watch Museum and across the country thank him for his years of service and wish him the best of luck in his well-earned retirement.

The American Clock & Watch Museum

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Museum Hours:
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Provenance

The Estate of Theodore R. Crom, Hawthorne, Florida

David Evans Collection of Liverpool Watches

The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Columbia, Pennsylvania, to Benefit the Museum
Acquisitions Fund

Numerous Private and other Public Collections

Note:
Theodore R. Crom publications as cited in the catalogue by number:

1). Horological Wheel Cutting Engines 1700 to 1900 (1970)

2). Horological Shop Tools 1700 to 1900 (1980)
3). Horological & Other Shop Tools 1700 to 1900 (1987)
4). Trade Catalogues 1542 to 1842 (1989)
5). An Eighteenth Century English Brass Hardware Catalogue (1994)
6). Early Lancashire Horological Tools & Their Makers (1994)

All lot measurements are approximate and where important, potential buyers are encouraged to ask for confirmation or
clarification.

Skinner does not guarantee any clocks or watches to be in running condition, but are considered to be mechanically complete
except where noted otherwise. No attempt has been made to time or test the clocks and watches offered here in any systematic
manner. Many have been partially wound to assess condition and results are noted in condition reports where possible.

Ted Crom stamped many of the tools in his collection “T. Crom” in block and script lettering. This ownership mark is not noted
in the condition reports and should be assumed present on any tools purchased.

The Crom bookplate is affixed to the inside of most books in the research and rare book library. In addition, his name and
address are hand-written, sometimes multiple times inside the title pages and end papers. Bookplate locations and handwritten
notations are noted only in condition reports for the rare book collection and not on the general reference library offerings. On
these lots, notations should be assumed present on all books purchased.
Theodore R. Crom (1920-2008)

Horology lost a legend on the 18th of January 2008. On that day, Ted Crom passed away after an extended illness, ending
a lifetime of accomplishment in both his professional and personal life. I can almost hear Ted on that early morning,
quoting Winston Churchill to all who would listen, “I am ready to meet my maker, whether my maker is ready for the
great ordeal of meeting me is quite another matter.”

Born on the 4th of July in Evanston, Illinois, he trained with the Army from 1943-44 at the University of Florida. After
serving in the Aleutian Islands, Lt. Crom returned to Gainesville to wed Wyona Nitz (Nonie), founded his engineering
firm, the Crom Corporation, and began sixty years of support for the University of Florida Gators. Through the years, Ted
and Nonie raised four sons, while the Crom Corporation grew to 500 employees and Ted amassed a private horological
tool collection well-known throughout the world.

Educated in engineering at the University of Maryland, Columbia University and the University of Florida, Ted received
an honorary Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Maryland for his contributions to the field. Little known
today, he also lettered in wrestling, gymnastics, diving, and was accomplished in Judo. I watched as a pickpocket learned of
Ted’s athletic prowess at the Portebello outdoor antiques market in London in 1998, when Ted, at age 78, wrestled a
young thief to the ground to reclaim his stolen wallet. Today, at the University of Florida, is the Ted Crom Gymnastics
Studio, the state-of-the-art official practice venue for Gator gymnasts.

Ted’s son Gary (Frank Gary) was his father’s constant companion as they traveled the world in search of horological
artifacts, little-known archives and interesting people. Gary, at age 18, (almost 40 years ago) is pictured in Early Lancashire
Horological Tools and Their Makers sorting the vast collection of Dr. David S. Torrens (1897-1967) and preparing it for
safe transport to the “Crom Museum” back in Florida. Their travels brought them to numerous countries, where they
befriended the world’s most renowned horological craftsmen, scholars, collectors, as well as the unsung heroes of the
serious researcher; librarians, who carefully catalogue, maintain and protect archival treasures.

Ted’s horological and tool-related affiliations span half dozen countries and are seemingly endless. He was a member of
the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, the British Horological Institute, the Antiquarian Horological
Society, the American Watchmaker’s Institute, the Society of Ornamental Turners and Ornamental Turners International,
to name just a few. The respective journals are replete with Crom articles and contributions as he was never just a member,
but always an active member.

Joining the NAWCC in 1953 with membership number 1811, Ted was a Star Fellow, a frequent lecturer at local, regional
and national conventions, a regular contributor to the Bulletin, a National Director 1969-1973, Museum Trustee 1979-
1981, Museum Acquisitions Committee member 1997-2003, the recipient of numerous Certificates of Appreciation for
his contributions to the field of horology and recipient of the James W. Gibbs Literary Award in 1990 for his horological
writing. Few amassed an avocational curriculum vitae that could fill so many pages.

Ted Crom’s legacy as an international authority on horological tools is recorded in the six books that he authored and
published on the subject between 1970 and 1994. It is within these nearly 2,000 pages that the secrets of long-forgotten
trades are unveiled and the pivotal role of horology in the birth of the Industrial Revolution is told. Ted instinctively knew
the importance of this material and its’ far reaching implications for our modern technological world.

The stone streets of Prescott (Lancashire, England) are quiet now with the watch and tool industry that is just a footnote
in the collective minds of the iPod generation. In the graveyard at the Parish Church of St. Mary lies the remains of
toolmaker John Wyke amongst numerous watchmakers and outworkers from a by-gone trade that defined the industry and
consumed the town in the 19th century. Nearby in Warrington, the horological supplier Peter Stubs and his worldwide
influence on the trade would be forgotten, except by the interested few. We remember you, Ted Crom, for telling their
stories, uncovering their secrets and revealing the remarkable accomplishments of horologists throughout the world for
this and future generations. Farewell Old Friend!

Robert C. Cheney, FNAWCC

Director, Science, Technology, & Clocks
Skinner, Inc.
 SKINNER
invites you to a

Lecture & Reception

Fifty Years of Documenting the Trades:
The Ted Crom Horological Tool Collection
& Library

Robert C. Cheney, Director of Science, Technology, & Clocks,

presents an illustrated lecture on the Ted Crom Collection

Friday, April 30th, 2010

6:00 p.m. Reception/7:00 p.m. Lecture

SKINNER Gallery
274 Cedar Hill Street
Marlborough, MA

R.S.V.P. 508.970.3000

Held in conjunction with the preview of Skinner’s

May 1st Auction of Science, Technology & Clocks
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The Ted Crom Horological Tool Collection, Lots 1-350

1.
Brass and Steel Mainspring Winder, John Wyke, Liverpool, 1759-87,
with turned wooden handle, the U-shaped support marked WYKE, lg. 6
in.

Note: John Wyke is one of the most important English toolmakers of

the 18th century, and is perhaps the first to publish a trade catalogue
for any trade, in 1758. There are very few copies of his Catalogue of
Tools for Watch and Clock Makers known today, and they are in
important public collections including The Henry Francis du Pont
Winterthur Museum and the British Museum in London. The Winterthur
version of catalogue was reprinted in its entirety in 1978, and shows
this tool in plate 56. Crom #2 pictures it as figures 1032-1033, and the
same tool is shown in figure 258, itself simply a reprint of the Wyke
catalogue plate.
$200-250

2.
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, possibly John Wyke, late 18th century,
with open brass frame and multiple adjustments, the tool slide bears
mark I WYKE, overall lg. 9 1/4 in.

Note: Crom #2 discusses this engine on 466-467 and it is illustrated

there in figures 923-924. Trade catalogues of the time show similar
engines, specifically Wyke’s catalogue, which shows it in Plate 60 (Crom
#2, figure 262).
$500-700

3.
Brass Fusee Engine by Ferdinand Berthoud, Paris, last quarter 18th
century, vice-held machine-engraved on cutter frame Ferdinand
Berthoud Fecit carried on a decoratively shaped frame with crank key
adjustment, hand crank threaded advance, knurled thumbscrews and
beautifully made locking screws for main components all mounted on a
walnut display block, lg. 8 in., together with Ferdinand Berthoud, 1727-
1807, Horloger Mecanicien Du Roi et de la Marine (1884, Musee
International d’Horlogerie, 343 pp.).

Note: Ferdinand Berthoud (1727-1807) settled in Paris at age 19 and

flourished as a watchmaker and author of horological works. This tool
is illustrated and discussed in Crom #2, pp. 457, and remains one of
the few tools signed by this preeminent maker.
$2,000-2,500

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4.
Iron and Brass Clock Barrel and Fusee Engine, England, early 19th
century, the iron and steel frame supporting a threaded advance
mechanism with hand crank at the end used to advance the work while
applying pressure to the cutting tool with the wooden handled lever, an
associated eight-day longcase barrel in place for demonstration
purposes, lg. 20 in.
Note: Crom #3 pictures and describes this tool on p. 302 and a similar
tool is illustrated in the Wyke tool catalogue as shown in Crom #2, p.
155.
$400-600
5.
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, England, c. 1850, the hand-powered
engine on three tapering iron legs, the cutter assembly and adjustments
on a dovetail slide, ht. 5, lg. 11 1/2, wd. 9 in.
Note: This engine is discussed in Crom #2, p. 470, figure 929.
$300-500
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6.
Brass and Steel Clock Fusee Engine, probably Switzerland, early
19th century, the vice held machine with steel bar holders for the work
and cutter assembly with suspended weight to provide advance of the
cutter as the crank with wooden handle and gearing advances the work
piece, lg. 15 in.
$1,000-1,500
7.
Brass and Steel Tool, late 18th/early 19th century, possibly a swing
tool, with two brass cranks, one for adjusting the width between the
centers, the other for turning the gears, lg. 15 in.
$300-500
8.
Small Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, 19th century, for
cutting crown wheels in verge escapement watches, with gear-driven
index plate with nine divisions numbered 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19,
shaped steel indexing arm, and long vice mount, overall ht. 8 1/2,
overall lg. 7 3/4, indexing wheel dia. 3 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 goes into detail about this engine specifically, on p.
351, figures 716-718.
$300-500
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Two Brass and Steel Watchmaking Tools, England and France,
18th/early 19th century, including an incomplete mandrel marked W.
KENYON; and a small French wheel cutting engine with several missing
elements, probably vice-held; mandrel lg. 10, engine lg. 7 1/2, indexing
wheel dia. 5 1/4 in.

Note: There is an entire Crom volume dedicated to the wheel cutting

engine, though this engine is discussed and illustrated in Crom #2 on p.
636, figure 1242. Mandrels are covered in the same volume on pp.
524-537.
$300-500

10.
Steel and Brass Rolling Mill, England, late 19th century, the vice-held
tool equipped with two steel rules set at a slight angle to each other so
that, when with wood-handled crank is turned, it drives one rule ever
closer to the other compressing the object between, lg. 14 1/2 in.

Note: Crom #2 discusses this tool, invented some time before 1884 by
E.D. Johnson, since it appears in Britten’s 1884 catalogue.
$300-500
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11.
Brass, Iron, and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, 20th
century, three iron feet and brass frame, 7 1/2 in. dia. dividing plate with
approximately thirty-three rows of divisions including 360 and 365 at the
outer perimeter, hand crank to advance the cutter with frame adjustable
for crown wheels, other belt-powered tooling mounted above, on a
cabinet with drawer of components, ht. 16 in.
$700-900

12.
Swiss Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, early 20th century, three
iron legs support the brass frame, 5 1/4 in. dia. brass dividing plate with
approximately twenty-three rows of divisions including an outer ring of
365, steel index arm, cutter frame adjustable for crown wheels with
lever advance, all on a wooden cabinet with components, ht. 16 in.
$800-1,200

13.
Brass, Iron, and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, late 19th
century, four iron legs and brass frame, 6 1/2 in. dia. brass index plate
with approximately twenty-two rows of divisions including 108, 160,
174, 180, 192, 240, 300 and 360, handwheel-powered cutter presently
set up for annular wheels, work holder, cutter advance with wooden
handled crank, all on a modern cabinet with additional components, ht. 12
18 in.
$1,000-1,500

14.
Brass, Steel, and Iron Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, c. 1900,
the iron frame with four legs, 5 1/2 in. dia. brass dividing plate with
approximately twenty-five rows of divisions including 360 at the
perimeter, adjustable lever controlled cutter frame and advance
powered by a handwheel, all on an ash cabinet with additional
components, ht. 16 in.
$1,000-1,500

15.
Cylinder ‘Scape Wheel Engine, late 19th century, the bench-mounted
tool with steel foot, brass frame with steel dividing head, pivoted swing
cutting tool and overhead belt-driven pulley, all on a wooden display
stand, tool ht. 10 in.

Note: Crom discusses cylinder ‘scape wheel cutting in Crom #2, pp.
445-447, and this tool is pictured in fig. 891.
$300-500 13
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16.
Brass and Steel Pinion Cutting Engine, Switzerland, c. 1800, with
wood pulley and handles, and steel frame with brass assembly with
dovetail slides, ht. 12, lg. with handle 16 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses this tool on pp. 550-551, and it is illustrated
as figures 1098 and 1099.
$1,000-1,500
17.
Brass and Steel Engine for Wheel- and Pinion Cutting and
Rounding-up, Switzerland, c. 1850, the vice-held crank-powered tool
now on a modern steel stand, brass indexing drum with nineteen rows
of divisions, the indexing apparatus with spring-loaded locking pin all on
a dovetail slide and adjusted with a lever, the cutter arbor with wooden
pulley adjusted by thumbscrew on another, perpendicular, dovetail slide,
lg. 15, ht. 11 in.
Note: Crom #3 discusses this tool in detail on p. 353, figure 722.
$300-500
18.
Three Boxed Brass and Steel Jacot Tool Sets, Switzerland, late
19th/early 20th century, two in their original fitted boxes, box lg. 8 1/4-
10 in.
Note: The Jacot tool is discussed and examples shown in Crom #2, p.
572.
$125-175
19.
Boxed Brass and Steel Jacot Tool Set, Switzerland, late 19th/early
20th century, marked E. BERNER GIENNE, in its original box with
drawer, (box broken at hinges, cracked, and with losses), box lg. 11
1/4, ht. 2 3/4, dp. 5 1/4 in.
Note: The Jacot tool is discussed and examples shown in Crom #2, p.
572.
$75-125
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20.
Two Boxed Sets of Cast Brass and Steel Jacot Tools, Switzerland,
late 19th/early 20th century, for pivot polishing, in their original boxes,
box lg. 9 3/4-10 3/4 in.
Note: The Jacot tool is discussed and examples shown in Crom #2, p.
572.
$100-150
21.
Brass and Steel Rounding-up Tool, Switzerland, last half 19th
century, for the final shaping of watch wheel teeth, the crank with
turned wood handle powers the cutter, all mounted on a wood base
with drawer containing a full complement of twenty-eight cutters and
eighteen anvils, base wd. 10, dp. 6 1/2, overall ht. 10 3/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses rounding-up tools generally on p. 590 and
pictures this particular tool on p. 591, figures 1162-1163.
$200-300
22.
Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, c. 1865, the
tool screwed to a wood base which can be screwed to a bench for
use, brass handwheel crank, brass pulleys, brass faceplate with three
steel jaws, tool rest with dovetail slide and crank adjustment, lg. 22, ht.
13 1/2 in.
Note: Mandrels are discussed in Crom #2, pp. 524-537.
$300-500
23.
Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, 19th century,
the worm-gear driven example with turned wooden handle, knurled and
flattened thumbscrews, and three-jaw brass faceplate for holding the
work, the tool meant to be vice-held, on modern wood stand, lg. 13
1/2 in.
Note: The universal mandrel is covered in Crom #2 from pp. 524-537.
It is reported there that the mandrel, despite being developed around
1800, was in widespread use throughout the first quarter of the 19th
century.
$250-450
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24.
Brass and Steel Mandrel, Switzerland, late 19th century, the large
vice-held pulley-driven tool with brass frame and steel bed, wood-
handled cranks, three-jaw faceplate with added Jacobs chuck, dovetail
slides, all mounted to a walnut base (base with breaks), lg. 22 1/2 in.
$800-1,200
25.
Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, late 19th
century, the belt-driven machine with cross slide, tailstock, three-clamp
face plate and brass base, all on a modern wood board, lg. 15 1/4 in.
$200-300
26.
Brass Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, late 19th/early 20th
century, with wooden pulley, brass faceplate with three jaws, dovetail
slide tool rest with crank adjustment, mounted on wooden base,
knurled and flattened thumbscrew fasteners, with accessories, lg. 14
1/2, ht. 7 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 pictures this mandrel with its accessories as figure
1057, p. 534. The accessories make the mandrel quite a versatile tool.
$250-450
27.
Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, c. 1865, the
free-standing crank- or belt-powered tool with five-spoke handwheel
with turned wood handle, brass faceplate with three jaws, original wood
base, lg. 17 3/4, ht. 11 1/2 in.
Note: Mandrels are covered in Crom #2, pp. 524-537.
$200-300
28.
Large Steel Sliding Calipers, France or Germany, 19th century, lg. 14
3/4 in.
$150-200
29.
Nine Brass and Steel Poising Tools or Calipers, Germany, America
and France, 19th/20th centuries, five calipers mostly of brass, of similar
form; and four boxed tools, two of those with thumbscrew-adjusted feet
and decorative finishes, another smaller example with four tapered legs,
and the last with a plastic handle and damascened finish, lg. of calipers
2 1/2-3 1/4, boxed poising tools lg. 2-6 in.
Note: Many of these tools are pictured in Crom #2, p. 367, figure
754A.
$150-200
30.
Seven Brass Assorted Measures, England and America, 19th/20th
centuries, including three brass and steel vernier gauges, two marked
C.B. Johnson Prescot, the other John Wycherley, Prescot; a brass
crystal gauge marked C. VOGELEY NY; a tapering brass thickness
gauge; and three others, lg. 3 1/2-6 in.
Note: For discussions or illustration of these types of gauges and
measures, see Crom #2 pp. 126 (figure 184), 413, and 476.
$400-600
31.
Six Steel Screw Plates, England, 18th/19th centuries, some marked
“Matheisen,” one with a turned wood handle (broken), lg. 7-19 in.
$200-400
32.
Six Brass and Steel Gauges, mostly England, mid-19th century, three
vernier calipers, the first marked C.B. Johnson, Prescot, the second
John Wycherley, Prescot, the last unmarked; two additional calipers of
varying design; and a gauge to measure movement size; lg. 3 3/4-8 1/2
in.
Note: Figure 935 in Crom #2 shows a variety of gauges and calipers
including some of the present examples.
$250-450
33.
Twelve Steel Screw Plates, Peter Stubs, Warrington, England, 19th
century, some with offset handles, all marked PS STUBS, lg. 4 1/2-10
1/2 in.
$250-450
34.
Two Cased Sets of Steel Screw Plates and Taps, Switzerland, 19th
century, including a total of four screw plates and several dozen taps,
one group housed in a Patek Philippe & Co. mahogany hinged box with
inlaid ivory cartouche and push-button latch, the other in a small slide-
lid box, box sizes 5 1/2 x 4 and 5 x 3 in.
$200-300

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35.
Fourteen Small Screw Plates, Switzerland, 19th/early 20th century,
marked Martin or Perrelet & Martin, including notched and plain
examples, lg. 2 1/4-6 1/4 in.
$100-200
36.
Group of Steel Screw Plates and Taps, England, Switzerland, and
America, 19th/20th centuries, including examples of screw plates
marked Bourgeaux & Delamure, Lebanon, and Latard, a slide-lid box of
taps stamped S.W. Card Man’f’g Co., Mansfield, Mass., U.S.A., and
approximately twenty-five additional taps, plates lg. 1 1/2-8 3/4 in.
$200-400
37.
Collection of Forty-eight Calipers, Compasses, and Dividers, mostly
18th/19th century, including spring calipers, wing calipers, spring
dividers, and wing compasses, all mounted to pegboard with wire, and
enclosed within a wooden shadow box frame, frame 49 1/2 x 25 x 5 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses many of these tools on pp. 388-393.
$800-1,200
38.
Two Large Iron Calipers, late 19th century, both approximately lg. 21
in.
$100-150
39.
Four Engravings from the Peter Stubs Catalogue, 1993, the framed
prints made from the original copper plates, plate size 9 1/2 x 14 1/2;
together with two additional prints, one which shows a wheel cutting
engine, the other a map of London.
$250-350
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40.
Four Brass or Copper Engraving Plates, England and France,
18th/19th century, two brass and two copper, the subjects of the plates
an intertwined monogram design, a calling card, a certificate form, and
a two-sided brass plaque showing a French Cardinal on one side and
an architectural cartouche on the other, ht. 2 1/2-9 3/4, wd. 2 1/4-7 1/2
in.
$100-200
41.
Collection of Six Canes, 19th/20th centuries, including two concealing
blades, one of those of faux snakeskin, the other chip-carved hardwood
mounted with metal and ivory; one concealing a watch in the knob; one
concealing an umbrella; one with metal folding “Fair Seat”; and a stick
cane; lg. 33 3/4-38 in.
$200-300
42.
Two Brass and Steel Depthing Tools, France and Switzerland, late
18th/19th century, the first an early example with adjustable arcs at
each end which predate the later types, like the second present
example, which generate their rigidity from springs, lg. 9, 7 1/2 in.
Note: The first example here is illustrated as figure 841 in Crom #2.
$400-600
43.
Brass and Steel Depthing Tool, William Illingworth, England, late
19th/early 20th century, the brass body marked Wm. ILLINGWORTH
MAKER, with steel runners and knurled thumbscrew tighteners, lg. 13
3/4 in.
Note: Though generally used to determine correct engagement of
wheels with pinions, depthing tools, we are told in Crom #2, were
versatile and adaptable to a variety of watch and clockmaking uses (pp.
414-422). Depthing tools are found in trade catalogues as early as
Jacob Leupold’s (1724) (Crom #2, figure 70), and appear relatively
unchanged in form since Berthoud’s catalogue (1773) (Crom #2, figure
154).
$1,000-1,200
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Large Brass and Steel Boxed Depthing Tool, Switzerland, 19th
century, with spring rigidity, shaped runner support arms, and knurled
thumbscrew tighteners, lg. 14 in.
Note: This tool is illustrated in Crom #2, figure 846.
$1,000-1,500
48.
Brass Triple Escapement Depthing Tool, Switzerland, second half
19th century, three penny foot legs support the 4 in. dia. calibrated
work platform with vertical work holders, four knurled thumbscrews for
adjustment of the work components in relevant directions all in a hinged
pine box, ht. of tool 7 in.
$800-1,200

45.
Brass and Steel Depthing Tool, possibly England or France, 18th
century, an early example with steel body, brass runner supports, and
flattened thumbscrews, the rigidity fixed by a spring, lg. 12 in.
$300-500
49.
Brass and Steel Triple Depthing Tool by McDuffie for Crom, c.
1980, and a crown wheel gauge by T. McDuffie, Sarasota, Florida, c.
1980, for depthing watch contrate wheels, marked T McDUFFIE,
mounted to wooden base, lg. 4 1/2, ht. with base 4 1/4 in.

Note: This tool, commissioned by Ted Crom, is a reproduction of the

46.
tool from the 1770 Wyke & Green catalogue, shown at the lower right of
Two Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Depthing Tools, Switzerland,
plate 58, (reproduced in Crom #2 as figure 260).
19th century, the adjustable U-shaped base supports the runners which
$300-500
are aligned to hold the wheels and arbors, all tightened with
thumbscrews, lg. each 9 3/4 in.
$600-800
50.
Four Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Depthing Tools, Switzerland,
47. 19th century, three of similar form with side-mounted thumbscrews for
Brass and Steel Depthing Tool, Switzerland, 19th century, the U-form tightening the runners, and the fourth with more unusual top-mounted
body adjustable for width, with faceted runner supports which adjust to thumbscrews, two of the tools boxed, lg. 3 1/2-4 3/4 in.
accommodate varied parts within, lg. 13 in. $300-500
$400-600
 52 (all boxes not shown) 53

51.
Four Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Depthing Tools, Switzerland,
19th century, two boxed, with side-mounted thumbscrews to tighten
the runners; the other two with top-mounted thumbscrews, all with bent
steel spring for fixing rigidity, (one tool missing a runner and one missing
the screw which adjusts depth), lg. 3 1/2-4 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses depthing tools and their varied uses on pp.
414-422.
$300-500
56.
Boxed Brass and Steel Jacot Tool Set, Switzerland, late 19th/early
20th century, in its original mahogany box with drawer which houses
three burnishers, (joinery separation and warping to top of box), box lg.
11, ht. 3, dp. 5 1/2 in.
Note: The Jacot tool is discussed and examples shown in Crom #2, p.
572.
$100-150

52. 57.
Three Boxed Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Depthing Tools, Three Boxed Sets of Cast Brass and Steel Jacot Tools, Switzerland,
Switzerland, 19th century, all with knurled thumbscrew locks and steel late 19th/early 20th century, for pivot polishing, in their original boxes,
leaf spring for rigidity, in paper-covered boxes, lg. 2 3/4-3 3/4 in. box lg. 8 1/4-10 in.
$300-500
Note: The Jacot tool is discussed and examples shown in Crom #2, p.
572.
53. $125-175
Brass and Steel Pivot Polishing Tool, Switzerland, 19th century, the
assembly consists of a small depthing tool mounted with a yoke, and
overall the assembly allows for accurate and rapid polishing by the use
of two bows simultaneously, lg. 5 1/4 in. 58.
Three Brass Watchmaker’s Lathes, Switzerland, late 19th century, of
Note: Crom #2 discusses and illustrates how English watchmaker various designs, one example with tool rest and modern drilling head
Anthony Randall used this tool, on pp. 560-561, figures 1115-1117. stock is stamped J M Bottum, New York, lg. all approximately 10 in.
$200-300
Literature: Crom #2, p. 517.
$300-500
54.
Brass Depthing Tool by John Downes, London, late 18th century,
three iron legs support the brass frame with three clamp work holder,
upright pivoted center with brass arm for contact with the calibrated 59.
snail engraved John Downes, London, ht. 9 1/2 in. Two Brass Watchmaker’s Lathes, Swiss, late 19th century, both with
headstock and tool rests, (one with losses and in “as found” condition),
Literature: British Horological Institute Journal, April 1992, p. 346. max. lg. 13 in.
$400-600 $200-300

55.
Boxed Jacot Tool Set, Switzerland, late 19th/early 20th century, in its 60.
original box with drawer which houses four burnishers, box lg. 11, ht. 2 Brass, Iron, and Steel Jewel Piercing Lathe, Swiss, 19th and 20th
1/2, dp. 5 in. century, the lathe made from assorted parts, with two separately and
oppositely rotating arbors to speed cutting, lg. 17 3/4 in.
Note: The Jacot tool is discussed and examples shown in Crom #2, p.
572. Note: This tool is discussed in Crom #3, p. 322, figure 667.
$100-150 $150-200
 61.
Brass Watchmaker’s Lathe, Switzerland, 19th century, the bench-
mounted tool with two wooden pulleys, a bronze pulley, brass faceplate
with three jaws, dovetail slide, and knurled thumbscrews throughout,
unmounted, lg. 14, wd. 11 1/2, ht. 5 1/2 in.

Note: Crom #2 notes, under figure 1017B on p. 515, that E.B. Porter, a
Penn Yan, New York, watchmaker, adapted this rather typical lathe into
a pulley drive, probably sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century
(he died in 1920). Some of his make-do adaptations include using a
partially marked dividing plate as a flywheel.
$250-350

62.
Small Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, second
half 19th century, the vice-held and bow-powered tool for cutting crown
wheels, 3 1/2 in. indexing plate with eight rows for cutting 7, 9, 11, 13,
15, 17, and 19 teeth, pivoting steel arm with curved finger loop, and
cutter which adjusts on three axes, with thumbscrew fasteners, lg.
overall 6, ht. 6 1/4 in.
62 Note: Crom #2 pictures this tool as figure 1279 and in figure 1281,
both on p. 657.
$200-400

63.
Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, first half 19th century, the
vice-held and bow powered tool for cutting crown wheels, with 3 3/4 in.
indexing plate with eight rows labeled 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19 and
one unlabelled, for cutting various numbers of teeth, pivoting steel arm
with curved finger loop, and cutter which adjusts on three axes, with
thumbscrew fasteners, lg. overall 6 1/2, ht. 7 1/2 in.

Note: Crom #2 pictures this tool as figure 1278 and in figure 1281, pp.
656-657.
$500-700

64.
Nickel-plated Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland,
20th century, the footed and bow-powered tool with 3 3/4 in. indexing
plate with eighteen rows labeled 11, 13, 62, 64, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78,
82, 84, 88, 90, 94, 96, 100, and 120 for cutting various numbers of
teeth, pivoting steel arm with curved finger loop, and cutter which
adjusts on two axes, with thumbscrew fasteners, lg. overall 8, ht. 6 3/4
in.

Note: Crom #1 discusses the Swiss wheel cutting engine and shows
examples on pp. 56-61; Crom #2 discusses Swiss wheel cutting
engines like this one on pp. 652-657.
$400-600
63
65.
Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, Spain or Switzerland, 18th century, the
scroll-footed freestanding tool with pivoting indexing arm having a
scrolled finger loop, and 6 1/4 in. dividing plate with twenty divisions,
numbered from inside out 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 22, 24, 29, 34, 42, 56,
59, 68, 70, 72, 74, 80, 90, 13, and 15, and on the underside 20, 26,
28, 32, 36, 40, 48, 50, 54, 60, 60, 64, 65, 66, 100, and 11, the
numbers indicating that the engine can be used for general cutting as
well as for the specialty cutting of escape wheels and high tooth count-
wheels, lg. 10 3/4, ht. 7 1/4 in.

Note: This engine is illustrated and discussed in Crom #3, pp. 370-
371, figures 742 and 743.
$600-800

66.
Small Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, late
18th/early 19th century, vice-held tool with 4 1/4 in. index wheel having
thirteen rows on the top and ten underneath, with an indexing arm that
could be mounted to either side, with thumbscrew and wing nut
adjustments and locks, (missing elements including gallows), lg. 6 in.
$200-300
64
67.
Small Brass and Steel Crown Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland,
late 18th/early 19th century, vice-held tool with 1 1/2 in. index wheel
having four rows on top and three underneath, with a curved indexing
arm, the whole with thumbscrew adjustments and locks, (missing
elements including gallows), lg. 6 in.

Note: This tool is illustrated as figure 1280 and in figure 1281 on p. 657
in Crom #2.
$100-150

68.
Brass and Steel Jewelling Lathe, Switzerland, late 19th century, the
brass-framed tool with wooden pulley, with flattened thumbscrew-
fastened hinged clamp holding the main arbor, mounted on modern
wood platform base along with a hinged box of accessories including
faceplates and arbors, ht. 8 1/2, lathe lg. 10 3/4, platform 11 x 11 3/4
in.

Note: This type of lathe, widely available in the late 19th century, and
relatively versatile, was shown in several period trade catalogues, shown
in Crom #2 as figures 457, 517, and 676. However, with the invention
of the American-style lathe, which held tools with chucks, this type of
lathe became largely obsolete and was no longer on the market by 65
1900 (Crom #2, pp. 513-517).
$200-400

69.
Three Jewelling Lathes, Switzerland, late 19th/early 20th century, all of
similar form with wooden turning pulleys and knurled thumbscrew
tighteners, mounted on modern wood bases, lg. 8 1/2-10 in.

Note: Crom #2 discusses Swiss lathes on pp. 513-517.

$300-500

70.
Brass and Steel Broaching Lathe and Two Brass Vice-mounted
Broaching Turns, Switzerland, 19th century, all with knurled
thumbscrew fasteners and hand rests which extend from the frame, lg.
to 10 3/4 in.
$100-150

71.
Watchmaker’s Lathe, Gustav Boley, Germany, c. 1875, the lathe
mounted to a wood base fitted with holes and compartments for lathe
accessories, lathe lg. 10, base 12 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.

Note: For reference to the lathe catalogue of Gustav Boley, see Crom
32, pp. 268-273. 66 67
$250-450

72.
Brass and Steel Pinion Drilling Engine, Germany, first half 19th
century, lg. 11 1/2 in.

Note: This tool is discussed in detail in Crom #3, pp. 342-343, and
pictured there in figures 700-702. Similar tools reside in the collection of
the Uhren Museum in Vienna, Austria, and The Museum of the History
of Science, in Oxford, England.
$300-500

73.
Iron Frame Wheel Cutting Engine, origin unknown, late 18th century,
tri-foot frame supporting the 5 in. dial brass dividing plate with seven
rows of divisions, adjustable cutter frame with small cutter and brass
pulley, ht. 7 in.

Note: This engine is discussed in Crom #1, p. 124, figure 116.

$300-500
73
 74
74.
Brass, Steel, and Cast Iron Wheel Cutting Engine, Europe, early
19th century, the freestanding crank-driven tool with black-painted cast-
iron frame supporting the unusually thick 9 in. dia. dividing plate with
twelve rows of divisions, the plate rotated by a wood-handled crank and
indexed worm drive, another crank drives the cutter frame laterally only,
ht. 9, overall lg. 17 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 pictures this engine as figure 1286, and discusses it in
detail.
$400-600
75 with detail view
75.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Christian Grunsteidel,
Augsburg, Germany, dated 1798, the vice-held belt-driven engine, 9 3/4
in. dividing plate marked Christian Grunsteidel fecit Augsburg 1798 with
forty-three division rows marked 13-365, steel indexing arm with finger
loop, pivoting cutter frame, pierced decorative thumbscrew at the end
of the cutter frame positioning screw, overall lg. 13 in.
Note: Crom #2 illustrates this engine and discusses it on p. 648,
figures 1268-1269.
$800-1,200
76 with detail view
76.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Leopoldis Andony Millogg,
Austria, c. 1712, the vice-held hand-powered engine with 9 1/4 in.
dividing plate having thirty divisions numbered 48-150 and further
numbered with factors such as 7, 12, and 13, inscribed Leopoldis
Andony Millogg 1712, pivoted cutter frame and crank with turned
wooden handle, lg. 11 1/2 in.

Note: Crom #2, makes reference to this engine on p. 625; Crom #1

discusses German wheel cutting engines in general on pp. 41-49
$1,500-2,500

77.
Steel and Brass Pinion Cutting Engine, 20th century, the engine
indexes and cuts low-count-wheels automatically, on a modern wood
base, ht. with base 9 in.
$150-250

78. 80
Iron Wheel Cutting Engine Fragment, 18th century, the freestanding
engine, largely incomplete, still retains its cutter arbor and gears, (pitted
and rust overall), overall lg. 17 1/4 in.
$200-400

79.
Disassembled Brass and Steel Wheel or Pinion Cutting Engine,
Germany or Switzerland, 18th/19th century, the machine can be
assembled to cut either wheels or pinions, its origin and date is
attributed by its design and overall quality, in a modern fitted wood box,
box lg. 23 1/4 in.

Note: Crom #2 discusses this engine, and shows it assembled for its
two uses in figures 1282-1285.
$800-1,200

80.
Large Brass and Steel Turn and Wood Handwheel, France, first half
18th century, the 17 3/4 in. wheel attached to a brass pulley mounted
on the turn, which is vice-held, thumbscrew fasteners and decorative
wing nut, turn lg. 21 1/4 in. 81
$600-800

81.
Iron Clock-Throw, England, mid-19th century, the right-angled slotted
frame on three faceted legs and pointed feet support the 15 in. dia.
handwheel, head, tail stock, and tool rest, all adjustable with threaded
locking levers, presently set up for pivot polishing, ht. 21 1/4, lg. 20 in.
$600-800
82.
Iron Demonstration Clockmaker’s Throw with Wooden Handwheel,
England, c. 1800, the steel throw mounted on a wood base, 13 1/2 in.
handwheel with turned wood handle, and mounted slide-lid container
for accessories, base 15 x 17 3/4 in.
$800-1,200
84.
Turning Apparatus, with Turn, Handwheel, and Vice, 19th century,
the steel Swiss Geneva-pattern turn with wooden pulley mounted in a
period steel vice and powered by an English brass handwheel, all
mounted on a modern demonstration bench, handwheel dia. 7 1/2,
bench ht. 4 3/4, overall ht. 13, overall lg. 13 in.
Note: This turn is illustrated as figure 983 in Crom #2, shown mounted
to a miscellaneous base.
$300-500
85.
Iron Clock Maker’s Throw, late 19th century, with 14 in. dia.
handwheel with wooden handle, 16 in. steel rod bed with head, tail
stock, and tool rest.
$200-300

83.
Brass Clockmaker’s Handwheel, England, 19th century, the six-spoke 86.
wheel with turned wooden handle mounted on a shaped brass arm Two Iron and Steel Handwheels and Two Drill Presses, together with
with screw holes for attachment to a lathe, wheel dia. 11 1/2, overall lg. four wooden hand vices and three steel sizing tools, handwheel dia. 8,
15 in. larger drill press ht. 19 in.
$250-450 $200-300
 87 with detail view
87.
Brass “Le Coq a Vernon” Wheel Cutting Engine, France, dated
1789, a freestanding hand-powered tool, the brass frame supported by
cylindrical legs, 5 3/4 in. brass dividing plate with fourteen numbered
rows and inscribed Le Coq a Vernon 1789, with pivoting steel indexing
arm and ivory crank handle, in old wood box with snipe hinges, engine
lg. 8 1/4, ht. 7 in.
Note: This engine is specifically discussed in Crom #3, pp. 354-357,
figures 723-725B.
$800-1,200
88.
Steel and Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, Hulot, Paris, France, c. 1740,
the vice-held crank-powered engine with steel frame supports the 10
1/4 in. dividing plate engraved Divize par Hulot Paris with forty-seven
rows of divisions numbered 12-360, flattened thumbscrew fasteners
and wing nut locks, and pivoting cutter, (gallows replaced), lg. 14 1/2 in.
Note: This engine is discussed in detail in Crom #3, pp. 372-375,
figures 744-748, where the author indicates that he made the
replacement gallows. There we are told that Hulot (1715-1781), whose
given names are not known, was a master craftsman known for making
dividing plates as well as, it is thought, his own engines.
$1,000-1,500
88 with detail view
89.
Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, France, 18th century, the freestanding
belt-driven engine on four curving legs supporting the 7 1/2 in. dividing
plate with twenty-one dividing rings numbered 11-120, the pivoting
cutter locks with an elaborate thumbscrew and is further mounted to a
horizontal dovetail slide, lg. 11, ht. 5 1/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 covers wheel cutting engines on pp. 625-667.
$800-1,200
90.
American Wheel Cutting Engine, probably Connecticut, c. 1780, the
neatly dovetailed chestnut and cherry frame with 15 1/2 in. dia. two-
part brass index plate with numerous divisions including 30, 48, 56, 60,
62, 64, 72, 78, 80, 84, 96, 98, and 118 and inner rings with 6, 7, 8,
and 10, adjustable cutter frame with wooden handled crank and cutter
arbor, ht. 14, lg. 23 in.
Note: This tool is discussed and illustrated in Crom #2, p. 664.
Connecticut clock makers Daniel Burnap and John Avery used nearly
identical machines, see: Penrose Hoopes, Shop Records of Daniel
Burnap Clockmaker, pp. 148-149 and Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney,
Clock Making in New England 1725-1825, plate 12, p. 85 for the John
Avery machine in the J. Cheney Wells collection at Old Sturbridge
Village.
$2,500-4,500
89

90 with detail view

 91

92

91. 93.
Wheel Cutting Engine, possibly America, 1776, iron frame with brass Escape Wheel Filing Engine, probably New England, c. 1800,
driving wheel and crank, 9 in. brass dividing plate dated 1776, divisions wooden wheel at the far end of the engine carries a brass band around
for 36, 72, 31, 78, 56, 60, 84, 96, and for the outer ring 30, the the perimeter with thirty holes for indexing the wooden arbor carrying
underside is also divided with 32, 40, 56, 60, 56, 54, and 118 for moon the escape wheel blank, a mortise-and-tenon frame with file mounted
dial work, lg. 24 in. slides back and forth on steel runners while filing the blank, frames are
hinged to allow removal of the work and file, lg. 17 1/2 in.
Note: This clock is illustrated and described in detail in Crom #3, pp.
368-370. Note: Crom acquired this engine from the legendary early collector,
$1,000-1,500 Fred Selchow of Jerico, Long Island, and later, New Hampshire.
Selchow left no stone unturned in the discovery of long-forgotten
horological history.
92. $400-600
Iron, Steel, and Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, America, early 19th
century, the iron-framed crank-driven engine mounted to a wood base,
94.
11 1/2 in. punched brass dividing plate with nine divisions, straight steel
Steel Rolling Mill, likely America, patented 1889, the standing mill for
indexing arm, wood handles, wood base 11 3/4 x 22 1/2, wd. with
rolling watch bezels and similar items, the extra rollers (one for
handle 18 in.
flattening) are stored on an integral upright, ht. 10 3/4 in.
$100-150
Note: Crom #2 pictures this tool as figure 1293, and discusses it there,
reporting that it was found in a Connecticut attic. It is interesting to
note a similar machine used by the Dominy clock makers in East
Hampton, New York. See Charles F. Hummel, With Hammer in Hand,
p. 169.
$1,500-2,500
 95.
Brass and Steel Ruling Engine, made by Luizard, Paris, early 19th
century, for the precision marking of tools, with wood handle,
thumbscrew fasteners, mounted on wood base, tool lg. 21 3/4 in.
$600-800

96.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, last half 19th
century, the freestanding hand-powered machine on penny feet
supporting a brass frame with 6 1/4 in. dividing plate with thirty rows of
divisions numbered from 11-144 and two unnumbered rows, the cutter
apparatus on vertical dovetail slide lowers by operation of a spring-
loaded turned wood handle, with lever-bar lock for the wheel blank axis,
ht. 11 3/4 in.

Note: Crom #1 discusses this tool in detail on pp. 56-61, figure 57.
$800-1,200

97.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, late 19th
century, three iron feet support the brass frame and 7 1/2 in. dia.
dividing plate with approximately thirty-two rows of divisions including
96 360, 365, and 366 at the perimeter, and pivoted cutter frame with multi-
tooth cutters, all on a modern cabinet with accessories, ht. of tool 11 in.
$800-1,200

98.
Brass, Iron, and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, late 19th
century, three-legged iron base, supporting a brass frame, 6 in. dia.
dividing plate with twenty-eight rows of divisions including 360 and 365
at the outer perimeter, vertical cord driven adjustable cutter frame, and
brass and steel work holder, all on a wooden cabinet with numerous
components, ht. 15 in.
$800-1,200

99.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Switzerland, second half of
the 19th century, the brass frame on three legs, 8 1/2 in. dia. dividing
plate with thirty-eight rows of divisions, belt-driven cutter frame with
lever advance, adjustable work holder and original wooden cabinet with
two drawers and attachments, ht. 16 in.
$800-1,200

97

98 99
 100 with detail views
100.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, Daniel Sephton, Prescot,
England, late 18th century, the freestanding hand-powered tool with
brass frame supported on three square tapering legs ending in pointed
feet, with 8 1/4 in. brass dividing plate having twenty-four divisions
numbered from 44 to 84, a table with additional divisions for any
particular circle and signed Danl Sephton/Prescot and embellished with
decorative engraving, lg. 13 1/4, ht. 10 1/2 in.
Note: Wheel Cutting is extensively discussed in Crom #2, pp. 619-667,
and in Crom #1, with a section on English engines on pp. 84-97. Daniel
Sephton (1733-1786?) and the present engine are discussed in Crom
#6, pp. 125-132.
$1,500-2,500
101.
Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, possibly England, 19th century,
freestanding tool on its original wood base, the brass frame supports a
10 3/4 in. dividing plate with twenty-five division rows numbered from
27-365, two pivoted indexing arms, knurled thumbscrew fasteners,
spring-loaded and pivoting cutter frame, lg. 20 1/4, ht. with base 13 3/4
in., together with three brass dividing wheels together with a box of
cutters and arbors.
Note: Crom reports that this tool, despite its similarity in form to
horological wheel cutting engines, is likely not built specifically for
horological use, but rather for the layout or cutting of scientific
instrument parts.
$1,000-1,500
102.
Pinion Cutting Engine, England, c. 1850, bench-vice-supported sliding
dovetailed iron frame with pinion blank and index wheel, 4 1/2 in. brass
wheel with six crossings and wooden handled crank, thumbscrew and
brass wing nut adjustment and locking, lg. 7 in.
Note: This tool is illustrated in Crom #2, page 553.
$300-500
103.
Brass and Steel Escape Wheel Cutter, England, 1819, with 3 3/4 in.
dividing plate having five divisions, steel indexing arm, thumbscrew
fasteners, marked on the frame AIM/1819, and on the plate A.I.M.,
overall lg. 7 in.
Crom #3 discusses this engine in detail on pp. 366-367, figures 734-
737.
$400-600
104.
Iron, Brass, and Steel Pinion Cutting Engine, Lancashire, England, c.
1750, the freestanding belt-driven engine stands on four pointed
faceted iron legs supporting the steel frame, large steel pivoting cutter
frame, and brass sliding frame and arbor supports, with wood pulley,
overall lg. 26 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses this engine as figure 1102, on p. 553. There
he makes reference to the pinion cutter’s use (or lack thereof) and
infrequent appearance in catalogues of the day.
$1,000-1,500
101

102

103

104
105 with detail views

105.
Brass, Steel, and Wrought Iron Wheel Cutting Engine, Thomas Green, Lancashire, England, c. 1790, the
freestanding crank-driven engine on faceted wrought iron legs ending in pointed feet all supporting the iron frame,
with 12 1/2 in. brass dividing plate marked T. Green Divisit, having twenty-eight rows of numbered divisions, iron wing
nut fasteners and locks, a large end-mounted screw is turned with a wrought iron handle to move the cutting
apparatus laterally, lg. 28 3/4, ht. 20 in., sold together with a hinged box with various cutters.

Note: This wheel cutting engine bears a strong resemblance to several wheel cutting engines (in well-known
collections) made by Wyke, Green, or Wyke & Green together, all of which were closely based on the engraving of an
engine design in Emerson’s Principles of Mechanics (1758). It is unusual to find an engine made by Thomas Green
on his own, since he normally worked with Wyke. Related engines are in notable public collections, see Crom #2, p.
637.
$4,000-6,000
109 with detail view
106.
Iron and Brass Wheel Cutting Engine, England, late 19th century,
with three-legged iron frame, 15 in. dia. brass index plate with sixteen
rows of divisions, iron cutter frame with wooden handle and belt-driven
cutter arbor, ht. 17, lg. 28 in.
$500-700
107.
Foot Treadle Wheel Cutting Engine and Bench, with 8 1/2 in.
dividing head with twenty rows of divisions, cutter frame assembly, and
belt drive to the foot treadle, ht. 51, 21 1/2, dp. 24 in.
$800-1,200
108.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, England, c. 1700, the
freestanding hand-powered engine with rectangular brass frame on four
tapering legs supports the 12 in. brass dividing plate with fourteen
numbered divisions, large brass cutter frame, wood handle, engine
frame 15 1/2 x 16 1/4, overall ht. 8 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses this engine in detail with two illustrations
(figures 1232 and 1233).
$1,000-1,500
110 with detail view
109.
Brass and Steel Wheel Cutting Engine, possibly England, late 18th
century, the freestanding hand-powered engine on base of three curving
legs supporting a steel frame with 11 1/4 in. diameter dividing plate with
twenty-two divisions including ones numbered 48, 54, 56, 60, 62, 72,
78, 84, 96, 118, 108, 120, and 200, steel indexing arm, cutter
apparatus pivots and depresses a spring during use, overall ht. 11 1/2,
overall lg. 18 1/2 in.
Note: The origin of this wheel cutting engine is unclear even to Crom,
see Crom #2, pp. 625-667.
$800-1,200
110.
Clock Wheel Cutting Engine by Charles Lunan, Aberdeen, Scotland,
dated 1792, brass four-legged frame for bench attachment, 12 in. dia.
dividing plate with twenty-six rows of divisions including an outer ring of
360, steel index arm, main supporting plate engraved Chas. Lunan
Aberdeen 1792 and a recessed casting mark W Lunan, cutter frame
with belt drive arbor positioned by large brass wing nut adjustment
screws and an additional box of approximately twelve flycutters, lg. 20
in.
Note: This engine is illustrated and discussed in Crom #2, p. 647.
$3,000-5,000
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113
115

112

114

117
111.
Two Steel Geneva Pattern Turns, England and Switzerland, late
18th/early 19th century, the English example, modified from its original
form, is missing some elements but has a shaped poppet head
suggesting an earlier date, the Swiss turn larger and apparently
complete, lg. 8 1/4-10 1/2 in.
Note: These turns are discussed in Crom #2, p. 496, and illustrated as
figure 981.
$200-300
112.
Five Brass and Steel Turns, England, 19th century, with marks for
J.&T. JONES PRESCOT, YOXON of Liverpool, L. WEULE, T&GW, and
IIW for John I. Wilmurt, lg. 3 1/4-6 1/4 in.
Note: Turns like these, also sometimes referred to as lathes, are
discussed in Crom #2, pp. 500-515.
$300-500
113.
Five Brass and Steel Turns, mostly England, 19th century, with marks
for PS STUBS, J.&T. JONES PRESCOT, HASWELL, LONDON, and
E.B. PORTER, of varying designs and uses, lg. 3 3/4-6 3/4 in.
$300-500
114.
Large Steel Turn Bench Bed, England, late 18th century, front bearing
poppet of brass, wooden pulley, flattened thumbscrews, (brass poppet
probably later), lg. 38 in.
Note: This tool is pictured in Crom #2, p. 502, in figure 991. There it is
guessed that this tool, now configured as a lathe, was perhaps once a
very long turn bench.
$1,000-1,500
116
115.
Six Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Turns, 18th/19th centuries,
including three in the “Geneva” pattern and three English pattern turns.
Note: For descriptions of these types of tools, also called lathes, which
are used for turning watch and small clock parts, see Crom #2, pp.
490-513.
$300-500
116.
Early French or German Steel Watchmaker’s Turn, early 18th
century, bench-vice-held tool with elaborately engraved supports and
thumbscrews on the runners and tool rest, lg. 10 1/2 in.
$800-1,200
117.
Two Brass and Steel Geneva Pattern Turns, England, 19th century,
both with runners and tool rests, the example with brass fitting marked
C. Ash & Sons England, max. lg. 10 1/2 in.
$200-250
118.
Four Brass and Steel Turns and a Watch Dial Tool, the turns, lg. 5-9
in.
$100-200
119.
Assorted Lot of Watchmaking Tools, Switzerland, France, and
England, mostly 19th century, including a Jacot tool; various vice-held
tools for purposes such as pivot centering, balancing, drilling and
polishing; a cutter frame; a mandrel headstock with ivory pulley; and a
box of arbors.
$200-300
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120.
Three Watchmaker’s Handwheel-driven Turns, England, 19th
century, the handwheel-driven turns, or throws, are vice-held, and used
for turning clock and watch parts, and for other tasks such as polishing
and drilling, lg. 6-12 1/4 in.
Note: For some reason, the English tended to use the handwheel for
hand turning rather than the bow, as the French and Swiss seemed to
prefer. Crom #2 discusses these tools on pp. 506 and 510-511, with
explanations under figures 997 and 1006-1008.
$300-500
121.
Four Steel Geneva Pattern Turns, of various patterns, age, and
condition, lg. 6-10 in.
$300-500
122.
Four Brass and Steel Pivot Polishing Tools and a Small Turn,
Switzerland, 19th century, lg. 4 1/2-7 in.
Note: See Crom #2, pp. 570-578, and especially figure 1138A for a
discussion of these turns adapted for a specific purpose.
$250-350
123.
Six Brass and Steel Turns, England or Switzerland, 18th-early 20th
century, for varied uses, from polishing to general turning work, wd. 4-6
1/4 in.
Note: Turns, or lathes, are discussed in Crom #2 on pp. 500-513,
where are illustrated many examples of the various types and designs of
turns that were made, including references to old trade catalogues
where such turns were available.
$250-350
124.
Five Small Brass Swiss Turns, of various design, origin, and condition,
approximate lg. 3-6 in.
$100-150
125.
Two Steel Turns, late 18th/early 19th centuries, one large example
meant for clockmaking, the other with only the bed and headstock
remaining, lg. 11, 14 in.
Note: The large turn here is illustrated in the chapter on turns and
lathes (Crom #2, pp. 500-513), as figure 1009.
$350-550
126.
Steel Swiss-Pattern Lathe, possibly England, 20th century, belt-driven
head stock, tool rest, and tail stock, lg. 21 in.
$250-450
127.
Green-painted Steel Screw Cutting Lathe, England, 19th century,
with triangular lathe bed and flattened thumbscrews, lg. 16 1/2 in.
$100-150
128.
Tower Clock Wheel and Roman Numeral Patterns, E. Howard
Watch and Clock Company, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1885,
including eight wooden tower clock wheel patterns, some stamped with
pattern numbers, the dial cluster gear pattern stamped with HW&C Co.
and corresponding brass castings of the same patterns, a walnut box
with sliding cover stamped Patterns for 6 FT Skellerton [sic] Dial with 10
in. hardwood Roman numeral patterns, another later box with
handwritten inscription Figure Patterns Return to E Howard Clock Co.,
Dec. 26, 1914 with 9 in. hardwood Roman patterns all in a red-painted
pine box inscribed The E.H.W. & C. Co. 1885.
$1,500-2,500
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129.
Brass Clock Uprighting Tool, Switzerland, late 19th century, the 9 1/2
in. round bed and cyma-shaped frame support the spring loaded steel
runner and center point, all on three sturdy iron legs for bench
attachment with brass cover, ht. 27 in.
Note: A closely related tool is illustrated in the Mather & Lassell tool
catalogue in the collections at Le Chateau des Monts as shown in Crom
#3, p. 158. Another example stamped “Vulliamy” is illustrated in Crom
#2.
$1,000-1,500
130.
Iron Bench Vice, late 19th century, the vice, which is meant to be
screwed into the bench, holds a 19th century pinion polisher, vice lg. 9,
polisher lg. 17 in.
$600-800
134.
Assorted Brass and Steel Fusee-Related Items, England, 18th/19th
century, including two fusees, five fusee adjusting tools, chains and
chain links, a movement, and several castings.
Note: There is extensive coverage of fusee-related items in Crom #2.
Most pertinently, adjusting rods are discussed on pp. 474-475, chains
and chain tools on pp. 410-411.
$250-450
135.
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, Switzerland, 19th century, a large
example of this type of tool, with wood turning handle, pivoting cutter
and ferrule, knurled thumbscrews for tightening and adjusting, and an
indexed steel plate for setting the cutter lead, on modern wood base,
ht. 9 1/2, lg. 14 1/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses Swiss fusee cutting engines on pp. 460-464.
$1,000-1,500

131.
Twelve Clockmaker’s Tools, 19th and 20th centuries, including five
turned wood-handled five clock screwdrivers one marked PS STUBS; a
top crown pivot polisher by Roger Davies (made in 1992); and six other
tools of varied use, some with chucks for interchangeable bits, lg. 4
1/4-9 3/4 in.

Note: Crom #3 discusses screwdrivers on p. 345, figure 707.

$100-150

132.
Two Iron Bench Vices, France, mid-19th century, the larger marked on
the frame, F.Darfrey (?) a Morteau, the other, probably Continental, in
polished steel condition, total ht. of larger vice 7 1/2 in.
$150-250

133.
Two Large Iron and Steel Clock Tools, America, 19th century, a 13 in.
handwheel with wood handle, and a large iron mainspring winder,
winder overall lg. 16 in.
$200-400

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136.
Brass Watch Fusee Notching Tool, England, last quarter 19th century,
the vice held tool with pivoted U-shaped cutter and work holder
assemblies and hand crank with wooden handle to power the cutter, lg.
4 in.
$200-400
137.
Brass Fusee Engine, possibly Holland or Belgium, late 18th century,
the bench-held frame with threaded advance and wooden handled
crank, work holder and pivoted cutter bar, lg. 8 in.
$300-500
138.
Brass Fusee Engine, probably France, mid-18th century, the frame
with steel runner and work holder, swan neck cutter frame, threaded
advance mechanism and steel crank with wooden handle, lg. 9 in.
Note: Crom #2 illustrates and discusses this piece in plate 920. The
present example is part of a pair, the other example at the Gold, Silver
and Clock Museum, Netherlands.
$200-400
139.
Fusee Notching Tool by Hollands, London, the iron bed stamped
Hollands, London, with brass fusee work holder, brass frame and hand-
powered cutter, ht. 6, lg. 10 in.
$800-1,200
140.
Clock Barrel and Fusee Engine, probably Lancashire, early 19th
century, iron frame with barrel holder, cutter frame with wooden handle
and iron crank to advance the work and cutter, lg. 16 in.
$500-800
141.
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, Roger Davies, England, 1996, with
turned wood handle, marked by the maker, lg. 8 1/4 in.
Note: This tool was made for Ted Crom by Mr. Davies.
$200-400
142.
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, 20th century, bench-made, vice-held
tool with fusee held between centers, the square arbor in fitted collet
rotated with a crank and turned ivory handle, locking with neatly made
steel wing nuts, cutter frame assembly on brass rollers and with steel
arbor, lg. 7 in.
$400-600
143.
Steel Fusee Engine, France, 18th century, with turned wood handle,
the engine with a great many points for fine adjustment of the cutting
bar and cutter feed lever which operates by a spring, though there is no
fusee curve template as in other examples of similar tools, the
adjustments tightened with flat thumbscrews, (lever, spring and fusee
chuck replaced, 1978), overall lg. 11 in.
Note: A similar fusee cutting engine to the present example is
illustrated in Crom #2, figure 99, a reproduced page from Thiout’s 1741
catalogue, whose format likely set the standard for all tool catalogues to
come. This particular engine is illustrated and discussed in the same
Crom volume as figure 913.
$800-1,200
144.
Steel Fusee Cutting Engine, France, mid-18th century, the cutter
positioned by a bent steel spring and other adjustments made with flat
thumbscrews, overall lg. 8 1/2 in.
Note: This tool is pictured and discussed in Crom #2, figure 912. It is
very similar to the fusee cutting engine shown in Thiout’s 1741
catalogue (Crom #2 figure 99). There it is discussed that this tool has
an unusual auxiliary cutter frame which swings below where the fusee
being cut is mounted.
$500-700
145.
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, Switzerland, first quarter 19th century,
of variable lever type with pivoted cutter arm, and steel plates with
inscribed reference numbers to help accurately locate the lead of the
cutter, and a pivoted auxiliary cutter, ht. 7, lg. 10 3/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses this tool in figures 917 and 918, and pp.
462-463. There it is identified as an 1825 tool, at the latest, since the
need for fusees was greatly decreased by the mid-19th century, as they
were largely discontinued in their use in Swiss watches by that time.
$600-800
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146.
Brass and Steel Fusee Engine, Germany, c. 1775, with a large
looping bent steel spring and pivoted cutter mount with scrolled thumb-
hold and flattened thumbscrew fasteners throughout, (lacking turned
wood and brass handle), lg. 10 1/2 in.
Note: Leupold and Leutmanns of Germany published a tool catalogue
in the first quarter of the 18th century and showed a predecessor to this
fusee cutting engine there (Crom #2, figure 908A). This tool is shown in
figure 908 in the same volume, and it is mentioned that this kind of
engine was generally found around Augsburg, in southern Germany, an
area known in the 18th century as a watch, clock, and horological tool
center.
$500-700
148.
Large Steel Fusee Engine, England, c. 1850, the freestanding hand-
powered engine of the inclined bar type, with dovetail slide, overall lg.
28 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses this tool specifically as figures 926-928, pp.
468-469.
$300-500
149.
Steel Fusee or Barrel Engine, England, early 19th century, iron bar
stock supports the work holder, cutter assembly and hand crank
advance mechanism, together with an additional lead screw and crank,
overall lg. 23 in.

147. Note: This tool is discussed in detail in Crom #3, pp. 314-315. The
Iron and Steel Fusee Engine by J. & T. Jones, Prescot, late 19th present example descended in the Murray family of Rothbury,
century, stamped by the maker on the brass work holder and fusee Northumberland, United Kingdom.
advance swing arm, lg. 23 in. $300-500
$200-400

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151
150.
Brass Machine-a-Raboter and Accessories, Switzerland, c. 1800,
the vice-held tool engraved H.P. BUCKLEY, with filing slide governed by
four rollers, the file designed to pass over arbors which hold the wheel
being filed, the machine mounted in a period steel vice further mounted
to a modern wood base, together with a decorative box of files, a
leather pouch with accessories, and an additional filing slide, slide lg. 7
3/4, tool lg. 11 1/2, ht. as mounted 10 3/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 covers the Machine-a-Raboter, designed about 1750.
The tool was meant for the accurate and precise filing of wheel tooth
shape, taking the place of hand-filing which was inconsistent. This tool
is illustrated on p. 582 as figures 1151 and 1152.
$1,000-1,500
152
151.
Brass Machine-a-Raboter, Switzerland, last half 19th century, bench-
held tool with steel runners for holding the work, pivoted cutter frame
with circular cutter and sliding attachment for advancing the cutter
through the work, lg. 10, ht. 7 in.
Note: These highly specialized tools for the accurate filing of tooth
shapes in chronometers are discussed in Crom #2, p. 589.
$400-600
152.
Brass Machine-a-Raboter, Switzerland, late 19th century, brass vice-
held tool with steel runners to hold the work, sliding cutter assembly
above and a hinged mahogany box filled with accessories and
additional selection of cutters, lg. of tool 12 1/2 in.
$800-1,200
153.
Brass Machine-a-Raboter, Switzerland, late 19th century, bench-held
tool with work holder, table with rollers for sliding file attachment, crank
handle advance and additional accessories, lg. 14 in.
$300-500
154.
Brass Machine-a-Raboter by A. Janneret, Locle, mid-19th century,
the bench-held tool engraved on the bed A. Janneret Machiniste au
Locle, steel runners to hold the work and three sliding file holders.
Note: This tool is pictured and discussed in Crom #2, p. 584.
Provenance: Dr. Torrens Collection, for what Crom describes as the
“Torrens Hoard” see Crom #6, pp. 113-124.
$1,000-1,500
155.
Brass and Steel Machine-a-Raboter, Switzerland, c. 1800, the filing
slide moves between four rollers, on a brass frame and steel base,
mounted on a modern stand, with additional slides and accessories,
overall lg. 14 1/2, ht. 10 1/2 in.
$600-800
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155A.
Four Items Relating to the John Matzinger Watch and Clock Shop,
1298-1300 Broadway, New York, late 19th century, including two
framed photographs showing the interior of the Matzinger shop
identified as being located at 33rd and Broadway in Murray Hill, each
depicting three clockmakers, a treadle lathe and an assortment of
clocks, a metal sign reading “J. MATZINGER/WATCH and
CLOCK/MAKER/REPAIRING,” and a brass wood-handled seal marked
John Matzinger & Son New York, framed items each approx 12 x 16
(framed size), sign 14 x 14, seal ht. 3 1/2 in.
158.
Two Case Hinge Jigs From Richard Oliver’s Watch Casemaking
Shop, England, 19th century, and other items including a drilling
template, and a lock, jigs lg. 6-7 in.
Note: Quite a number of pages (pp. 394-410) in Crom #2 are
dedicated to the Clerkenwell, England, shop of Richard Oliver, a
casemaker whose tools and equipment are mostly at the Liverpool
Merseyside Museum.
$100-150

Note: Ted Crom had a long history with a man named Joe Sasek, who
apprenticed in the Matzinger shop as early as 1904. This friendship
and its relationship to the Matzinger shop is detailed in Crom #2, pp.
31-34.
$400-600

156.
Pole Lathe from the Richard Oliver Casemaking Shop, 25 Spencer
Street, Clerkenwall, London, c. 1900, the pine bench with single leg and
shoe foot supports an iron frame lathe powered by a foot treadle
attached to a ceiling mounted pole, and dozens of specific made
wooden chucks for holding watch case parts during manufacture.

Note: Originally five pole lathes were used in the Oliver Shop in
London. Three of the five benches are now in the Merseyside County
Museum, while this example used by lead workman Fred Thoms, is
offered here. Crom discusses this important watchcase making shop in
detail in Crom #2, pp. 394-406.
$600-800

157.
Two Casemaking Tools, England, 19th century, both tools, one for
case flattening, the other for annealing, from the Richard Oliver shop on
Spencer Street in Clerkenwall, England, flattening tool dia. 2 1/2,
annealing tool ht. 7 3/4 in.

Note: The Oliver shop is discussed in Crom #2, pp. 394-410, though
this annealing tool is shown on p. 539, as figure 1067.
$100-150

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159.
Brass Dial-indexing Tool, Switzerland, c. 1890, the dial is tightened to
the center of the wheel under the brass arm, and the wheel is spun to
each notch, which indicates where each of the sixty marks on the dial
will be made, ht. 4 1/2, lg. 6 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #3 discusses this tool on p. 304, figure 633, where you are
directed to another discussion (p. 240, figure 546) of tools of this type
appearing in an 1890 catalogue.
$200-400
160.
Brass and Steel Dial-indexing Engine, France, late 18th century, with
pivoting brass and steel arms and an adjustable thumbscrew-tightened
pin, and rings of holes for the accurate and regular division of watch
dials, (dial supporting ring a replacement), ht. 3, index dia. 6 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses this tool in detail on pp. 424-425, and in
figure 857. Notably, it is explained which purpose each division ring
serves. The appearance of division rings in powers of ten indicates a
date and origin in France around 1792-1795, during the French
Revolution, when the law there required ten-hour dials (and 100-minute
hours) due to the use of the metric system.
$250-450
161.
Large Assorted Group of Watchmaking Tools, 19th/20th centuries,
including staking tools, polishers, balance spring tools, stone setting
tools, swing tools, screw extractors, a depth gauge, and others,
approximately eighty items overall.
Note: Many of the functions and identities of these tools are discussed
in Crom #2, specifically polishing tools (pp. 559-578), and others.
$200-400
162.
Group of Brass and Steel Watchmaking and Jewelling Turns and
Various Other Tools, France, England, and Germany, mostly 19th
century including drilling turns, pivoting tools, and others, some
examples boxed, lg. from 1 in.
Note: For a discussion of many of these items and their uses see Crom
#2, pp. 409 and 427-436.
$200-400
160
163.
Large Assortment of Watchmaking and Jewelling Tools, 19th and
20th centuries, including swing tools and swing tool frames, boxed sets
of arbors, pivot polishers, polishing laps, boxed countersink sets, a
boxed “screw extractor,” a boxed “jewelers watch winder,” and others,
sizes vary to lg. 7 in.
Note: Many items in this assortment are related to polishing, including
the swing tools. Polishing is covered in Crom #2 on pp. 559-578,
where there are several references to the appearance of items similar to
these in such trade catalogues as that from Robert Haswell & Sons,
1886.
$250-450
164.
Assorted Lot of Brass and Steel Watchmaking Tools, 19th/20th
centuries, including staking tool, barrel-closing tools with attachments, a
box mill, a “Pallet Jewel Setter” in original box, a brass turn mounted to
a new wood base and related attachments, a tin with varied tool
attachments, and an indexing accessory marked A.D. WILSON PROV.,
R.I., and other items.
$200-400
165.
Six Watchmaker’s Tools, America and England, 19th/20th century,
including two steel hand vices, one marked PS STUBS; a steel-
mounted wood hand vice (cracks); an iron bench vice; an iron and
aluminum watch movement cleaner adapted from a hand drill design;
and a hand-cranked demagnetizer, ht. 5 1/2; other items lg. 4 1/2-12
in.
$150-200
166.
Six Bluing and Soldering Tools, 19th/20th centuries, five with turned
wood handles, the tools to be used over the heat of an alcohol lamp, lg.
7 3/4-9 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 p. 374 (figure 764) shows an example of a bluing tool,
and p. 423 (figure 856) shows a dial foot holder. It also provides
reference for each form in 18th and 19th century tool catalogues such
as Wyke and Stubs.
$75-125
167.
Assortment of Mostly Brass Cylinder Escapement-related Tools,
19th/20th centuries, the tools specifically designed for the manufacture
and repair of cylinder escapements: stakes, gauges, a vice, and
dressing tools, lg. 1-7 3/4 in.

Note: See Crom #2 for a discussion of cylinder escapements and the

associated tools.
$100-150

168.
Six Iron and Steel Pin Vices, probably England, mid-19th century, all
of similar design with shaped handles, one with wooden handle, lg.
approximately 5 1/2 in.
$200-300

169.
Six Steel Pin Vices, probably England, mid-19th century, all of similar
design with shaped handles and wing nut clamping of jaws, lg.
approximately 4 1/2 in.
$100-150

170.
Six Hand Vices, England and America, late 19th/20th centuries, of
different design, three with turned wood handles, all the examples
marked including PS STUBS and JM HOFF & LANGE, lg. 5-8 1/4 in.

Note: Hand vices are illustrated and discussed in Crom #2, pp. 616-
618.
$200-400

171.
Four Hand Vices and a Steel Folding Multi-use Tool, England,
19th/20th century, the two large hand vices with turned wooden
handles, one with a pivot adjacent to the mount, the other with a
decorative screw fastener; two small steel vices; and a tool having ten
fold-out attachments ranging in use from corkscrew to hole punch; vice
lg. 4 1/4-9 3/4, folding tool 4 1/2 in. open.
$200-400
172.
Lot of Steel Watchmaker’s Hand Tools, including pin and hand vices,
dividers, tweezers, and pliers, max. lg. 6 1/2 in.
$100-150
173.
Five Pairs of Steel Sliding Pin Tongs and an Iron Shear, 19th/20th
centuries one pair of tongs marked ACIERFONDU, the shear marked
PS STUBS, lg. 5-8 in.
Note: Crom #3 has images of these types of tongs on pp. 163 and
164.
$100-150
Top: 168; bottom: 169
175.
Group of Assorted Watchmaker’s Tools, America and England,
19th/20th centuries, including a set of cork borers, a leather knife, a
brass and steel turn, a pin filing turn, a barrel closing punch marked
A.S. KLACKNER ROCHESTER, N.Y., lg. 2 3/4-8 in.
$100-150
176.
Large Group of Mainspring-related Tools, France, Switzerland, and
England, 19th and 20th centuries, including three barrel-closing stakes,
several pairs of various pliers, and ten mainspring winders.
$100-150
177.
Brass and Steel Turn and a Mainspring Winder, late 19th century, a
standard Swiss pattern turn with manufactured brass flywheel and pull
string to continually advance the work in the same direction, lg. 7 1/2 in.

Note: Crom #2, pp. 496-497.

174.
Assorted Lot of Mostly Brass and Steel Watchmaking Tools,
England, Switzerland and America, 19th/20th century, including two
boxed Ingold Fraise cutters, other uprighting tools, a mainspring winder
marked J. STARK WALTHAM MASS, a boxed bow mill, wheel
stretching tools, clock jewelling tools, a verge twisting tool, and various
others, lg. 1 1/4-6 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 includes a discussion of Ingold Fraise cutters on p.
593, and references to others of the tools seen here on pp. 336, 407,
438-439, 488-489, and in Crom #3, pp. 336 and 347.
$200-400
$75-150
178.
Four Brass and Steel Watch Mainspring Winders, mostly England,
18th/19th century, three with U-shaped brass frames and turned ivory
or wood handles, the other of later 19th century design and possibly
Swiss, lg. 4-5 1/4 in.
Note: Mainspring tools are covered in Crom #2, pp. 521-523.
$200-300
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188
179.
Four Brass Watch and Clock Mainspring Winders, of various
designs, periods, and condition.
$200-250
180.
Eleven Mostly Brass Mainspring Gauges, Switzerland, early 20th
century, some with marks for K.K. System or Ane MonGUERRE, circular
and rectangular examples, circular gauges dia. 2 3/4, rectangular
gauges lg. 3 3/4-7 1/2 in.
Note: Various types of measures and gauges are discussed in Crom
#2, pp. 476-485.
$150-200
181.
Nine Mainspring Gauges, late 19th/early 20th century, of similar form,
three marked DENNISON U.S. STANDARD, lg. 4 1/2-6 in.
Note: For discussion of gauges in general see Crom #2 pp. 476-485;
for illustrations of this type of mainspring gauge see Crom #2, p. 349,
figure 721 and p. 484, figure 950.
$125-150
182.
Two Brass and Steel Dial Gauges, Germany and England, late 19th
century, the first boxed, the box labeled M. Grossman, Glashutte (near
Dresden), Saxony with enamel dial; the second with silvered dial and
marked O. BEREND & Co LD. LONDON, E.C., box 4 x 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.
Note: The English example pictured in Crom #2, figure 952.
$200-400
183.
Brass and Steel Dial Gauge, Charles Taroni, Geneva, Switzerland, c.
1875, the silvered dial is turned with a rose engine and engraved with
the maker’s name and floral devices, ht. 1 3/4, dia. 2 1/2 in.
Note: This gauge is discussed in Crom #3, pp. 332-333, where it is
noted that Taroni likely made the gauge while a student at the
horological tool in Geneva, as it is typical of other very fine known
student work of the time.
$400-600
184.
Brass and Steel Dial Gauge, Gallonde, Paris, France, c. 1730-75, the
large gauge with engraved brass dial numbered 1-200 and inscribed
with maker’s name, (hands, crystal, bezel and surround replaced), ht. 2
3/4, dia. 4 1/2 in.
Note: This early and precise dial gauge is discussed in Crom #2, p.
479, figure 938, where it is guessed that it was used in the making of
regulators.
$300-500
185.
Two Boxed Scales, England, 18th and early 19th centuries, the first in
original box with fitted interior with partial label for J SOMMERS,
London; the second a diamond scale in a mahogany box with molded
lid opening to a fitted interior with hinged compartment, the underside
of lid with an applied printed diamond weight table, lg. 8 1/4, 5 1/2 in.,
respectively.
$250-450
186.
Boxed Brass and Steel Micrometer Gauge, likely America or
England, 19th century, the precision gauge marked G.P. Illig, box ht. 1
1/2, dp. 5 14, wd. 4 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses this gauge on p. 485, under figure 952, in
which it is illustrated.
$150-200
187.
Boxed Jewelling Gauge, S.A. Brooks, London, England, c. 1862, the
fitted interior of the box with an engraved brass plate with maker’s
name inset with jewels identified by numbers 3 to 12, and ten
correspondingly marked turned ivory and steel pins, box ht. 2, wd. 3
1/4, dp. 4 1/4 in.
$150-200
188.
Two Brass and Steel Pivot Dial Gauges, Switzerland and possibly
England, late 19th century, the first with enamel dial, the second with
silvered dial, lg. 4, 4 1/4, respectively.
Note: These dial gauges are pictured in Crom #2, p. 485, figure 952.
$175-225
189.
Seven Brass and Steel or Aluminum Clockmaking Tools, 19th/20th
centuries, including tools for uprighting, poising, and spring vibrating,
one tool housed in an octagonal box, ht. 1 1/2-4 3/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses balance tools in general and “vibrating
spring” tools specifically in pp. 370-375, and especially in figures 770-
772. Poising and uprighting tools get coverage in the same volume on
pp. 611-615.
$150-200
190.
Seven Brass and Steel Poising Tools, France and Germany, late
19th/early 20th century, the tools for checking the “poise” (uniform
thickness and weight) of a balance wheel, ht. 1 1/2-2 1/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 p. 367, figure 754A shows a variety of poising tools.
$100-150
191.
Nine Mostly Brass and Steel Poising Tools, Germany and France,
19th/20th centuries, the tools for checking that a balance wheel is of
uniform weight, ht. 1 1/2- 2 3/4 in.
$100-150
192.
Nine Assorted Clockmaking Tools, America, early 20th century, watch
movement holders (one marked SPIKE BRIGGS), poising tools (one
marked H.B. MORGAN), a boxed jewelling tool with attachments, and a
poising caliper marked THE L.C.R. PAT. PARALLEL CALIPER, lg. 2 1/2-
6 in.
$100-150
193.
Boxed Brass and Steel Uprighting Tool with Assorted Attachments,
Switzerland, late 19th century, the vice-held tool with attachments that
include seven brass movement rings, box marked OUTIL & PLANTER,
ht. 3 1/2, wd. 8, dp. 4 in.
Note: Illustrated in Crom #2, p. 613, figure 1199.
$150-200
194.
Five Brass and Steel Clockmaking Tools, Switzerland and America,
19th century, including three uprighting tools, two of them freestanding
with thumbscrews to tighten the steel arms, the third vice-held; a
poising tool with lever-tightened ball joint for adjustment marked K. &
D.; and a footed movement holder which adjusts in two directions
dated “July 23 83”; ht. 4 1/2-7 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 contains a section on uprighting or “planting” tools, pp.
611-615, with many examples shown, as well as numerous references
to early tool catalogues.
$150-200
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197
195.
Four Brass Upright Tools and a Movement Holder, Switzerland,
second half 19th century, one stands on four feet with thumbscrews for
locking the movement clamps, the other three of similar form, the
movement holder with curving arms each fastened with a small
thumbscrew, ht. 2-9 in.
Note: Crom #2 includes a section on uprighting, or “planting,” tools on
pp. 611-615, and mentions that tools like them appear in Wyke (Crom
#2, figures 259 and 260) and Stubs (Crom #2, figure 302).
$150-200
196.
Lot of Watchmaker’s Boxwood and Walnut Cylindrical Containers
and Holders, mostly Europe, 19th/20th century, including four small
containers for varied use, three small glazed containers with threaded
lids, three containers fitted for cylinder punches, a six-tier box for
differing grades of polishing compounds, a box containing steel
watchmaker’s tools, a bench oil cup, and two miscellaneous partial
boxes, ht. 1/2-3 1/2 in.
$150-200
198
197.
Fifteen Burnishers, late 19th/early 20th century, three of bloodstone,
one of agate, one brass, and the rest steel, lg. 2 1/4-9 1/2 in.
Note: Burnishers are shown in Crom #3, p. 195, in figures 373 and
374.
$100-150
198.
Ten Wood-Handled Burnishers Steels, likely England, late 19th/early
20th century, for the burnishing of various surfaces, lg. 4 1/2-6 1/4 in.
Note: Similar tools are pictured in Crom #3, p. 195.
$100-150
199.
Wood-Handled Tool Marked Harrild, the wooden handle on a steel
yoke with 3 1/2 in. dia. brass wheel stamped Harrild, lg. 17 1/2 in.
Note: Use of this tool is unknown, but one noted authority with an
arcane knowledge of clockmaking tools suggested it is a dial “matting”
tool.
$150-200
200.
Rose Engine from the Shop of A.L. Breguet, Paris, France, early 19th century, fourteen rosettes with twelve designed
for side following, 15 1/2 in. brass drive wheel with 400, 300, 240, 192 and 60 divisions, numerous additional division
nodes with steel spring-loaded detent, rubber follower mounted at the side of the headstock with wood-handled tension
adjustment, 9 1/2 in. dia. headstock with dove-tailed slides and index attachment, bench mounted slide rest with threaded
advance, tool bit and engine-turned ivory handle, front-mounted handwheel and 25 in. dia. drive wheel to rotate the
headstock, all on the original walnut bench, ht. 48, wd. 46, dp. 28 in. (at splayed legs). See detail view inside front cover

Note: This important ornamental turning machine is discussed in depth in Crom #3, pp. 272-275. Reportedly, another
identical engine is known signed in numerous places by Paris maker, A. Dueget.
$8,000-10,000

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201
201.
Brass and Steel Rose Engine, unmarked, probably Switzerland, c.
1875, the iron frame supporting ten steel rosettes all with side cams, 13
1/4 in. brass drive wheel with divisions and two steel detents with
springs, rear mounted rubber follower, threaded slide rest with
calibrated index and ivory handle, modern four-jaw chuck, 24 in. dia.
walnut drive wheel and hand crank, all on a custom walnut bench with
lyre-shaped legs and ball feet, ht. 54, wd. 43, dp. 22 in.
$5,000-7,000
202.
Cast Brass Three-part Headstock for Ornamental Turning, probably
Germany, late 19th century, the brass sections joined by two-way
dovetail slides, within a cylinder-turned two-part rosewood screw-top
box, combined ht. 6, dia. 3 1/2 in.
$300-500
203.
Approximately Twelve Boxwood Containers for Watch Tools and
Parts, of various sizes, designs, and use.
$150-200
204.
Seven Watch Production Jigs, Illinois Watch Company, Springfield,
Illinois, c. 1900, for the production of watches made there, the jigs fit on
a lathe bed and are marked for their specific uses, each 6 x 3 1/4 in.
$100-150
205.
Brass Depth Measuring Tool by Edwin Langford, Bristol, dated
1851, the instrument engraved on the calibrated top plate, Edwin
Langford Bristol 1851, steel and brass adjustable centers on the
underside, micrometer adjustment of the calipers and centers with
vernier scale readout and magnifier, all in a felt-lined fitted mahogany
box, lg. of instrument 9 5/8 in.
Note: This tool is illustrated and discussed in Crom #2, p. 419.
$600-800
206.
Fifteen Steel Crossing-out Dies, mid-19th century, used in the
Saggerson shop in Prescot, England, the dies for use in a flypress to
punch watch and clock wheels, wd. 3/4-1 3/4 in.
Note: Most of these dies are pictured (figure 1189) in the discussion of
stamping, in Crom #2, pp. 605-607.
$200-250
207.
Group of Miscellaneous Horological Tools, including an 18th century
English brass turn, a screwhead tool marked GRIMSHAW, an
unidentified tool marked J.D. CHEVALIER having a bone handle carved
with an alligator, an early steel hand vice with engraved decoration, a
brass tweezers/small shovel combination tool, and a brass balance
turn, lg. 4 3/4-7 3/4 in.
Note: See Crom #2, figures 998, 1001, and 1211, and also pp. 500-
513 and 616-618.
$300-500
208.
Twelve Steel and Iron Watchmaker’s Tools, mostly 19th century, a
wood-handled crossing jig, a pin vice, a small peening hammer, a fusee
chain stake, hand tongs, a filing jig, a wood-handled beam compass, a
pair of pin tongs, a screw caliper, and three miscellaneous tools, lg. 4-8
in.
Note: For references to some of these tools, see Crom #2, pp. 184
(figure 303), 390, 412, 453, and 558, and Crom #3, p. 303.
$100-150
209.
Twelve Watchmaker’s Tools, France and England, 19th/20th
centuries, including five pairs of pliers, a pair of nippers, a watch hand
lifter, a center-finding tool, poising calipers, a small double-horned vice
anvil, and a brass-headed hammer, lg. 3-5 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 shows similar tools on pp. 366-67, 451, 539, 547, and
556-558.
$100-150
210.
Small Iron Bench Vice and a Brass and Steel Broaching Lathe,
19th/20th century, the vice American in the “Prentiss” pattern with a
pivoting rear jaw, holding the Swiss turn having a long curving hand
rest, ht together 4 1/2, wd. 6, dp. 8 1/4 in.
Note: A similar vice is shown in figure 609 from Crom #2, a reprint of a
page from Levy, Dreyfus & Co.’s tool catalogue. In addition, Crom #2
shows an earlier version of a broaching late on p. 509, figure 1004.
$100-125
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212
213
211.
Mahogany Dovetailed Box of Three Drawers, England, late 19th
century, the box containing watch spring-making tools, two ring pulls
replaced, old refinish, (imperfections), ht. 5, wd. 10 1/2, dp. 4 1/2 in.
Note: This box was owned and used by 20th century English
chronometer maker H.W. Withers, and it is pictured along with its
contents in Crom #2, figures 765-769.
$300-500
212.
Three-Drawer Walnut Fowler’s Patent Material Case, Buffalo, New
York, late 19th century, the molded top above the case of drawers,
each fitted with compartments having sliding covers containing a variety
of parts, including screws, watch hands, watch wheels of all kinds,
springs, case fragments, brass and nickel balance bridges, and barrel
bridges, ht. 5 3/4, wd. 12 1/2, dp. 11 in.
Note: This case, as well as lot 213, are shown in Crom #2, figure 501,
a page from Otto Young & Co.’s catalogue.
$200-400
213.
Three-Drawer Walnut Fowler’s Patent Material Case, Buffalo, New
York, late 19th century, the molded top with maker’s label above the
case of drawers, each fitted with compartments having sliding covers
labeled and numbered in pen, and containing a variety of parts but
mostly empty, original pulls, old surface, ht. 6, wd. 12 1/2, dp. 10 3/4
in.
$150-250
214.
Two Wood Watch Part Cabinets, America, late 19th century, one a
“Fowler’s Patented Material Cabinet” (label gone), with three drawers
having slide-lid compartments, the bottommost filled mostly with brooch
pins; the other a box with canted top and hinged lids opening to a total
of twelve numbered compartments holding watch keys, ht. 6, 3; wd. 12
1/2, 8; dp. 11, 13 in.
Note: Crom #2 discusses cabinets on pp. 385-387, and pictures a
Fowler’s Patent example there. Further, on p. 276, in figure 501, a page
from Otto Young & Co.’s catalogue is reproduced, and cabinets like
these are shown.
$250-450
214
215 (partial)
215.
Two Walnut Fowler’s Patented Material Cabinets, Fowler & Co.,
Buffalo, New York, late 19th century, the first a five-drawer example, the
drawers empty but with numerous compartments covered with sliding
lids having old labels on them; the second a three-drawer example with
compartments covered with sliding lids containing a variety of watch
parts including wheels, wheel blanks, escapement wheels, assorted
verge watch materials, and pinions.
Note: Crom #2 discusses cabinets on pp. 385-387, and pictures a
three-drawer Fowler’s Patent example there. Further, on p. 276, in
figure 501, a page from Otto Young & Co.’s catalogue is reproduced,
and cabinets like these are shown.
$200-400
216.
Carved Watchmaker’s Three-Drawer Parts Cabinet, America, late
19th century, the top and bottom with egg-and-dart molding, and case
of three graduated drawers with paper label remnants flanked by spiral-
carved pilasters, the drawers full of a large assortment of watch hands,
ht. 10 1/4, case wd. 13 3/4, case dp. 9 in.
$200-400
217.
Red-painted Ten-Drawer Watch Crystal Cabinet, 19th century, the
molded slightly overhanging top above the paneled case with
lambrequin corners, and ten thumbmolded graduated drawers with
fitted and labeled interiors containing hundreds of watch crystals, all on
a molded base, original turned wood pulls, original alligatored surface,
(imperfections), ht. 33, case wd. 20 3/4, case dp. 16 in.
$800-1,200
218.
Three-Drawer Fowler’s Patented Material Cabinet, Fowler & Co.,
Buffalo, New York, c. 1875, the three-drawer cabinet for watchmaker’s
materials, with alterations within the drawers, one drawer holding a
variety of fusee chains, (scratched, drawer-front veneer gone), ht. 6, wd.
12 1/2, dp. 10 3/4 in.
$150-250
219.
Six Watchmaker’s Tool and Parts Cabinets and Boxes, 19th/20th
century, of varied form including a twenty-drawer example, a small lift-
top cabinet with seven drawers, and a mother-of-pearl inlaid rosewood
box; and mostly empty, though one small black-painted four-drawer
example holds a large assortment of watch wheels, (imperfections,
paint wear, and losses), ht. 3 1/2-7 1/2, wd. 8-14 1/2, dp. 4-9 1/2 in.
$150-250
227.
Oak and Walnut Foot Treadle Lathe, 20th century, a bench-made
replica set up with a swing tool, three-jaw headstock, tail stock, tool
rest, and oak bench, ht. 48, wd. 36, dp. 26 1/2 in.
Note: This lathe was constructed by Ted Crom to demonstrate Black
Forest clockmaking operations such as drilling, rounding up and general
turning.
$800-1,200

220.
Oak Four-Drawer Supply Cabinet, late 19th/early 20th century,
currently containing a variety of rod stock, and varied sheet metal
including brass, steel, and aluminum, original pulls, old surface, box ht.
10 1/2, case wd. 24 1/2, case dp. 13 1/2 in.
$200-300
221.
Victorian Oak Carved Machinist’s Cabinet, late 19th century, the lift
top opens to a well, above four drawers arranged in two rows, all on a
base with drawer, bellflower garland carved adornment, ht. 12, wd. 22,
dp. 13 in.
$200-400
222.
Three Watchmaker’s Parts and Crystal Cabinets, the walnut one-
drawer cabinet filled with crystals, wd. 21 1/2; a small cabinet with an
assortment of reamers and small files (lacking a top drawer), ht. 7 1/2;
and a ten-drawer oak cabinet with neat compartments holding small
glass parts containers with screw lids (lacking one drawer), wd. 18 1/2
in.
$200-400
223.
Oak Roll-top Watchmaker’s Bench, late 19th century, fitted with nine
draws, chalk compartment, iron kick wheel powering the 12 in. F. W.
Derbyshire, Waltham, Massachusetts, watchmaker’s lathe with head
and tail stock, tool rest and driving pulleys, ht. 48, wd. 43, dp. 26 in.
$800-1,200
224.
Four Watchmaker’s Lathes and Accessories, 19th/20th century, the
lathes now mounted to wood bases, the accessories include arbors
and at least two cutters, largest lathe bed lg. 11 in.
$250-450
228.
Pine Ten-Drawer Watchmaker’s Parts and Tools Cabinet, 19th
century, the paneled case with lambrequin corners of ten graduated
thumbmolded drawers, with a large assortment of watchmaker-related
items, including bezels, crystals, clock glasses, case springs, watch
boxes including Howard and Ball examples, varied pliers, movement
and case screws often in labeled boxes and vials, winder knobs, watch
wheels, the drawers with original turned wood pulls, old surface, ht. 32
1/2, wd. 20 1/2, case dp. 15 1/2 in.
$800-1,200
229.
Walnut Six-Drawer Watchmaker’s Parts Cabinet, with a large
assortment of watch jewels including Waltham and Elgin balance hole
and roller jewels manufactured by the Waltham Horological School, ht.
17 1/2 in.
$200-400
230.
Black-painted Oak Watchmaker’s Parts Cupboard, America, early
20th century, two paneled hinged doors open to reveal seven
graduated drawers, the drawers filled with miscellaneous watchmaking
materials: wheels, springs, etc., (left side top molding gone), ht. 21 1/4,
wd. 12 1/4, dp. 8 1/2 in.
$300-500
231.
Brass Clockmaker’s Sector, possibly England, late 19th/early 20th
century, lg. 18 1/4 in.
$400-600
232.
Brass Clockmaker’s Sector, Dobson, London, England, 19th century,
lg. 11 1/4 in.
$200-400

225.
Three Watchmaker’s Lathes, America, 20th century, hand and motor- 233.
powered, with associated components, some of which are 19th Ten Brass Sectors and Other Gauges, late 19th/early 20th centuries,
century; some lathes mounted on wood bases, longest lathe bed lg. 9 one sector marked T. Jump.
in. $150-200
$75-125

234.
225A. Brass Clockmaker’s Sector, France, early 20th century, lg. 13 1/2 in.
Peerless Marshall 12-inch Watchmaker’s Lathe, in nickel finish with $200-400
sliding head and tail stock, tool rest and one centering collet, lg. 12 in.
$250-450
235.
Brass Clockmaker’s Sector, possibly England, marked Ahrens, 1833,
226. lg. 20 3/4 in.
Eight Miscellaneous Steel and Iron Lathe Headstocks, 19th/20th $400-600
centuries, one marked Waltham, lg. to 10 in.
$200-400
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237
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236

234
236.
Large Brass Sector, possibly England, 19th century, the adjustable
arm tightens with a thumbscrew, lg. 27 in.
Note: Crom #2 includes a few pages on sectors or “proportional
gauges,” tools which predate watchmaking but are used readily by
watch and clockmakers to calculate the relative sizes of wheels and
pinions.
$200-400
237.
Nine Brass and Steel Douzieme Gauges, and Two Crystal Gauges,
Switzerland or France, late 19th/early 20th centuries, the douzieme
gauges V-shaped with arc showing the width of the object between the
calipers, one crystal gauge wood and brass, the other brass, lg. 4 3/4-
7 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #3 shows douzieme gauges in old catalogues as figures
309 and 384.
$100-150
238.
Six Steel Gauges, France and England, 19th century, of varied design
and for measuring sheet metal or wire widths, with maker’s marks
including PS STUBS, A. PARYS, and J. SPENCER & SONS, one
example inscribed A.W. BALL and dated 1875, in its original cardboard
case, lg. 1 1/2-8 1/2 in.
$100-125
239.
Twelve Brass, Steel, and Aluminum Gauges, England, Switzerland,
and America, 19th/20th centuries, of varied designs, the gauges for
measuring widths of wire and stones, and three with micrometers for
measuring the strength of mainsprings, most marked, lg. 2-7 in.
$100-150
240.
Approximately Fourteen Steel Gauges, Switzerland and England,
19th/20th centuries, of varied designs, some with marks including
MARTIN and R. MATHER & SON, mostly for measuring thickness and
diameter of wires, lg. 1 3/4-4 3/4 in.
$75-125
241.
Nine Mostly Brass and Steel Gauges, America, France, and
Switzerland, 19th/20th centuries, a thread gauge marked J. WYKE &
CO. E. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A.; a wire and rod ring gauge; two
mainspring gauges; a roller table gauge; two sliding caliper gauges, one
having a dial; and a boxed vernier caliper marked Darling, Brown &
Sharp Providence, R.I.
$150-200
242.
Upright Steel and Nickel Plated Brass Dial Gauge, Randall &
Stickney, Waltham, Massachusetts, late 19th century, for measuring the
thickness of plates, the black-painted and gilt stand with maker’s name
supports the dial also inscribed with maker’s name as well as the 1883
patent date, all under a glass dome on turned wood base, ht. to top of
dome 8 1/2, wooden base dia. 7 in.
Note: This tool is pictured in Crom #2, p. 480, figure 939.
$200-400
243.
Brass Table Micrometer, Switzerland, late 19th century, on four post
legs, steel calipers on one end, calibrated vernier read out through
glazed window and planar mirror mounted below, lg. 10 1/2 in.
$100-150
244.
Four Dial Gauges for Assorted Use, America and Switzerland, 19th
and 20th century, including balance spring gauges, one marked JM
BOTTUM NEW-YORK with patent date 1859; and two pivot gauges;
wd. 1 1/2-4 1/4 in.
Note: J.M. Bottum, a New York tool manufacturer, is discussed over six
pages in Crom #2 (pp. 242-247). Legend says that one night Bottum,
when ill and having realized that he did not have long to live, put some
of his best tools in a bag along with some bricks and sank them in the
river; gauges are covered in the same volume on pp. 476-485.
$200-300
245.
Two Boxed Brass and Steel Pivot Dial Gauges, Switzerland, c. 1860-
70, with enamel dials, in leather covered cardboard boxes, one with gilt
tooling, box ht. 3 1/2, 4 in.
$150-200
246.
Four Dial Gauges, America. c. 1900, for various purposes and of
varying design, including a gauge fashioned from a Seth Thomas
pocket watch and a gauge with inlaid brass tag inscribed GILDING, lg.
4-7 3/4 in.
Note: In Crom #2, p. 485, figure 952, it is noted that the gauge with
the GILDING tag is from the Waltham Watch Factory, Waltham,
Massachusetts.
$200-300
247.
Cased Dixieme Gauge and a Six-Compartment Wheel-sorting Box,
late 19th or 20th century, the box of laminated wood with push-button
latches and filled with brass wheel blanks and cut wheels, the gauge
housed in a cardboard sleeve, gauge lg. 4 3/4, box 1 x 6 x 3 3/4 in.
$150-200
248.
Large Lot of Assorted Gauges and Measuring Devices, Europe and
America, 19th/20th century, including wire gauges, dial gauges, crystal
gauges, sliding calipers, Vernier calipers, of various materials and
makers, some marked, lg. 2 3/4-6 in.
$100-150
249.
Oak Lift-top Box with Drawer Containing Silversmith’s Supplies,
England, c. 1900, the two-board top with molded edge opens to a well
and inset tray with a large set of steel master dies, punches, dies, and
engravers, above the drawer containing varied tools including files,
parallel rules, a wire brush, and additional dies, old turned pulls and
original brass lock hardware, refinished, (lacks lower molding), box ht. 8
3/4, wd. 20 3/4, dp. 11 1/4 in.
Note: A handwritten note dated 1959 on the underside of the top
indicates that this box was given to Ted Crom by Ron Musker of
Prescot, a local antiquarian. The note also indicates that the box was
once labeled, though the label is now gone.
$700-900

249
250.
Two Engraver’s Blocks and a Staking Tool with Attachments,
America, late 19th century, the engraver’s blocks of differing designs,
one meant to hold irregularly shaped objects and tightened with a clock
key, the other on a black-painted base; the staking tool with
approximately fifty attachments; rests lg. 5, 5 1/2, staking tool lg. 3 3/4
in.
$125-175
261 with detail view
251.
Three Engraver’s Vices and an Engraver’s Pad, 19th/20th century,
the first two vices turned rosewood with brass fittings, one inscribed
W.S.L.F and dated March 1872, with a pin extending from the bottom
meant to be inserted into a bench, ht. 6 1/4; the third consisting of two
large plated steel components, the top which houses the vice, the
rotating assembly is laid on a leather and wood ring to facilitate work at
any angle, ht. 7; and a sand-filled leather pillow for the engraver to rest
his hand, dia. 5 3/4 in.
Note: In Crom #2 there is pictured (figure 1210) the first vice mentioned
above, where it is noted that a very similar product was produced and
available at least in the 1884 catalogue by B.F. Norris.
$200-300
252.
Pine Chest and Sand Casting Equipment, the hinged chest with
lower drawer and two removable trays of sand-casting equipment,
patterns and castings, lg. 25, ht. 12 1/4 in.
$400-600
253.
Assorted Group of Wood Patterns and Brass Castings for
Horological Shop Tools, mostly 20th century, including an unfinished
uprighting tool, parts lg. to 4 1/2, uprighting tool ht. 4 3/4 in.
$100-150
254.
Four Carved Wood Clock Weight Casting Patterns, America,
19th/20th century, including examples used for the making of weights
used in large and typical banjo clocks, eight-day shelf clocks, and eight-
day long case clocks, lg. 6 1/2-8 3/4 in.
$75-125
255.
Approximately Fourteen Brass or Steel Clock Forgings, England,
19th/20th century, including arbors, pinions, and four crutches, together
with an unfinished brass plate for a drawer pull, a bail handle, and a
wax pattern for a similar bail.
$100-150
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256. 262.
Brass and Steel Wheel and Pinion Blanks, France or England, late Group of Filemaking Items, England, 19th century, including five
19th century, some associated with the French clockmaker Japy who chisels of varying size, three file blanks, a wood-handled steel hammer,
worked at Beaucourt, the blanks enclosed in folded paper with pen and and a name stamp reading MADE IN ENGLAND STUBS, lg. 1 1/4-8 1/2
pencil inscriptions. in.
$100-150 $250-450

257. 263.
Twelve Cast Bronze Roman Numerals, 20th century, the castings Cast Steel Riveting Hammer, 19th century, with octagonal faceted
number I through XII and meant for a large clock dial, ht. 4 in. head and unusually wide pane engraved with birds and geometric
$125-175 motifs, the turned handle with octagonally-faceted sections, lg. 12 in.
$300-500

258.
Assortment of Clock and Tool Parts, Europe and America, mostly 264.
19th century, including clock wheels, arbors, and pulleys. Two Wood-Handled Steel Hacksaws, late 19th/early 20th century,
$75-125 one fitted with a burnishing attachment, one with modern adapted
“blade,” lg. 13 3/4, 23 3/4 in.
$150-250
259.
Three Polychrome Cast Iron Dutch Figural Tall Clock Finials,
19th/20th century, figures of Atlas, and flanking angels, ht. 14 1/2 in. 265.
$100-150 Six Precision Steel Screwdrivers, England, late 19th century, three
with horn or bone handles, three with turned rosewood handles, the
former marked COGSWELL & HARRISON/LONDON, the latter with
260. brass mounts, lg. 4 1/2-6 1/2 in.
Brass and Steel Rope-braiding Engine, likely 19th century, with $150-200
turned wood handle, together with several examples of the kind of rope
that could be made using the engine, lg. 6 1/2 in.
$150-175 266.
Ten Wood-Handled Brass and Steel Hacksaws, mostly Ireland and
England, late 18th/19th centuries, including five in the “Lancashire”
261. Pattern, marks include PS STUBS, BOOTH BROTHERS DUBLIN and
Group of File and Chisel Blanks and a Name Stamp, from the shop L.P. EMERSON, lg. 7 1/2-12 1/2 in.
of Blundell, Prescot, England, the blanks intended for files and chisels of
varied use, lg. 1 1/4-10 1/2, a modern rasp made by Joe Bipsham, and Note: See Crom #2, pp. 594-597, for a discussion of hacksaws or
a stamp reading BLUNDELL/MADE IN ENGLAND, lg. 3 1/2 in., and two “clockmakers’ saws.”
associated planishing hammers. $300-500

Note: For a description of the Blundell shop, see Crom #3, p. 311.
$300-500
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266

264

267

268
267.
Four Brass, Steel, and Wood Piercing or Fretting Saws, Germany or
France, 19th/20th century, one steel and brass saw adjusts to pivot the
blade during use, all with turned wood handles, lg. 9 3/4-13 3/4 in.

Note: For a discussion of fretting saws, see Crom #2, pp. 594-597,
especially figures 1171, 1174, and 1176.
$200-400

268.
Nine Steel Watchmaking Hammers, France, late 19th/early 20th
century, the hammers with turned or carved wood handles for staking,
peening, and chasing, lg. 6 3/4-10 in.

Note: Several of these cast hammer heads are pictured in Crom #2, p.
143.
$150-200

269.
Slide Lid Box with Assorted Hand Tools, 18th-20th centuries,
including calipers, finishers stakes, a double halberd file marked PS
STUBS, and other tools, some also marked by Stubs, box lg. 9 1/4 in.
$100-150

270.
Spotting or Damascening Engine, England, late 19th century, iron
frame and brass work holder with geared adjustment in two directions
and overhead drive for polishing head with worm gear adjustment.
Note: This machine is illustrated and discussed in Crom #2, p. 540,
plate 1068.
$500-700
271.
Brass and Steel Boxed Mandrel, Robert Barker, England, c. 1810, the
vice-held lathe-powered tool with brass frame marked R BARKER, the
faceplate with three thumbscrew-adjusted jaws, and adjustable steel
tool rest, in original fitted dovetailed mahogany box (lid needs regluing),
lg. 10 1/4 in.
Note: Mandrels are covered extensively in Crom #2, on pp. 524-537.
$800-1,200
272.
Brass and Steel Mandrel, J&T Jones, Prescot, England, 19th century,
the freestanding tool with brass pulley, large faceplate with three jaws,
and adjustable cutter assembly on two dovetail slides, overall lg. 20 1/2,
ht. 11 1/2 in.
271
274.
Brass Mandrel by J. &T. Jones, Prescott, England, mid-19th century,
6 1/2 in. handwheel with wooden handle supported on a scrolled foot,
frame stamped J. & T. Jones, Prescott, three-jaw head stock and tool
rest, lg. 12 in.
$500-700
275.
Early Watchmaker’s Mandrels by Bowden and John Barker,
England, c. 1800, the smaller tool stamped in numerous places
Bowden with three clamp head stock and tool rest, lg. 9, the larger,
marked JB, three clamp head stock and tool rest, lg. 8 1/2 in.
$300-500
276.
Two Watchmaker’s Mandrel-related Tools, Switzerland, 19th century,
one with worm gear drive and three-jaw faceplate, the other with
wooden pulley and pivoting frame, wooden stand fits the first tool, lg. 9
1/2, 7 1/4 in.
$100-150

Note: Crom #2 shows this mandrel as figure 1046, p. 527.

$300-500
273.
Brass and Steel Mandrel, John Alcock, Prescot, England, c. 1860, the
free-standing crank-powered tool with frame marked JOHN ALCOCK,
brass pulley, three-jaw brass faceplate, and adjustable cutter on two
dovetail slides, together with unattached tool rest for hand turning,
handwheel dia. 8 1/4, overall lg. 17 1/4 in.
Note: This tool is pictured in color on p. 529 of Crom #2, as figure
1051.
$500-700
277.
Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, c. 1875, vice-
held gear- or pulley-powered tool, wood handles, dovetail slides, and
thumbscrew fasteners, (missing elements including the faceplate), lg. 18
3/4 in.
$150-250
278.
Brass and Steel Mandrel Handwheel, Switzerland, 19th century, now
mounted to a modern lathe, on wood base with a motor, switch, and
other modern alterations, wheel dia. 7 1/2 in.
$200-300
279.
Three Brass and Steel Mandrel Parts, Switzerland, 19th century, a
headstock with knurled thumbscrews, a handwheel lacking crank, and
a cross slide, handwheel lg. 9 1/4, headstock dia. 4, slide wd. 5 1/2 in.
$75-125
280.
Brass Swiss Mandrel, c. 1875, with other possibly associated
components, lg. 16 in.
$200-300
281.
Brass Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, late 19th/early 20th
century, with wooden pulley and worm-gear drive, brass faceplate with
three jaws, dovetail slide tool rest with crank adjustment, mounted on
iron base, knurled and flattened thumbscrew fasteners, lg. 13 1/4, ht. 8
1/4 in.
Note: Crom #2 covers mandrels on pp. 524-537.
$250-450
282.
Brass and Steel Watchmaker’s Mandrel, Switzerland, late 19th
century, vice-mounted machine with helical geared hand crank drive,
three-clamp faceplate, cross slide and tool rest, all on a later wooden
cabinet, lg. 17 in.
$200-400
283.
Swiss Watchmaker’s Mandrel, with three-clamp faceplate and
wooden handwheel, lg. 21 in.
$150-200
284.
Steel French or German Cutter Frame Fragment, possibly late 17th
century, with cast steel pointed center screws, decorative wing nuts and
finials, lg. 11 1/4 in.
Note: This fragment is pictured and discussed in Crom #2, p. 629.
$250-450
285.
Brass and Steel Drilling Frame, Switzerland, 19th century, with
ornamentally turned adjusting screws, the frame attaches to a wheel
cutting engine for use as a drill, ht. 5, wd. 6 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2 has an in-depth chapter on wheel cutting, and
mentions that wheel cutting engines were often adapted for additional
uses (pp. 625-667).
$100-200
286.
Brass Watchmaker’s Mandrel and Rounding-up Tool, Switzerland, c.
1875, the mandrel with 9 in. handwheel and wooden handle, three-jaw
clamping headstock, cross slide with tool holder and steady rest, all on
a wooden stand, ht. 12 1/2, lg. 22; the rounding-up tool stamped R.
Flume Berlin with 7 in. dia. handwheel, cutting arbor and work holder, all
on a wooden cabinet with approximately twenty-four additional cutters,
ht. 11 in.
$300-500
287.
Brass Watchmaker’s Depthing Tool, Switzerland, late 19th century,
unmarked, in a fitted leather-covered box marked 26, lg. 3 in.
$150-250
288.
Watchmaker’s Lathe by Stark Tool Company, Waltham,
Massachusetts, with 16 in. bed with maker’s plaque, belt-driven head
stock and one collet, compound slide with tool bit on a wooden
cabinet.
$200-300
289.
Victorian Foot Treadle Polishing Machine, with 16 in. flywheel and
foot-shaped treadle with two tapered spindles and modern table, ht. 45
in.
$75-150
290.
Watchmaker’s Crystal Press, the birch three-drawer cabinet with foot
pedal control of press, wooden forms and crystals, ht. 44 in.
$100-200
291.
Iron Watchmaker’s Kickwheel, America, early 20th century, the 18 in.
wheel with curving spokes powered by a foot pedal, overall ht. 21 in.
$200-400
292.
Two Victorian Foot-powered Machines, late 19th century, both with
flywheels, foot-shaped treadles, tapered spindles, one with grinding
wheels and tin cover, the other with polishing wheels, max. ht. 48 in.
$100-150
293.
Three Watchmaker’s Rounding-up Tools, Switzerland, late 19th
century, of various designs including an unusual example with an
annular geared hand turned cutter frame, two examples mounted in
small bench vices.
$200-250
294.
Two Swiss Brass Rounding-up Tools, both with handwheels, work
holders, and cutters, one mounted on the original walnut cabinet,
together with additional boxed cutters and accessories, ht. of tools
approximately 10 in.
$250-450
295.
Iron Watchmaker’s Press by F.H. and E. & F. Company, with L-
shaped handle and helical geared feed, ht. 8 1/2 in.
$100-150
296.
Three Boxed Clockmaking Tools, Germany, France, and America,
early to mid-20th century, and A. Alexander pivot polisher, a jewel seat
cutting tool, a spring vibrating tool, and a boxed graduated set of
mainspring winders with a knurled handle, box ht. to 3 3/4, box lg. to 7
in.
Note: There is reference to two of these types of tools in Crom #2, first
in figure 770 on p. 373, and again on pp. 488-489.
$100-150
297.
Boxed Brass and Steel Uprighting Tool, Switzerland, late 19th
century, with attachments and an included balance turn which was at
times offered in the same box with an uprighting tool as a set, (box in
poor condition), box dimensions 3 1/2 x 5 x 7 in.
$100-150
298.
Plated Steel Tapping Machine, America, late 19th/early 20th century,
a production machine used for tapping watch plates and driven by a
belt, mounted on a turned wood base, (lacks mechanism for raising and
lowering), ht. 9 in.
$100-150
299.
Iron Clock Pinion Swing Polishing Tool, possibly England, 19th
century, with flattened thumbscrews and wing nuts, the tool works by
swinging the polisher past the item to be polished, which is clamped
below, ht. 17 in.
Note: Crom #2 pictures this tool as figure 1149A.
$400-600
300.
Two Steel, Iron, and Brass Watchmaking Tools, late 19th century, a
slot cutting tool likely of Swiss origin with a quick-release clamp that
implies batch-production capability; and a watch production lathe,
possibly made in the Lancashire Watch Factory, with a four-pointed
cutter which is easily switched out, again implying increased production
speed; slot cutting tool lg. 6, lathe ht. 6 1/2 in.
$200-400
301.
Two Staking Tools, America, c. 1890-1900, one steel and marked JG
HALL ROXBURY VT, with a glass dome and approximately sixty steel
fittings, all set into a wood base (dome broken and repaired), the other
cast iron, together with a cast iron holder from a staking tool, example
with dome ht. 9 in.
Note: Staking tools, late 19th century tools developed and used for a
great many purposes, are discussed in Crom #2, pp. 603-604.
$75-150
302.
Two Brass Swiss Equalizing Tools, mid-19th century, the bench held
tools with work holders and pivoted cutter frames, used to re-cut bent
or damaged teeth on a crown wheel, lg. 3 1/2-5 1/2 in.
$250-450
303.
Brass Swiss Rounding-up Tools, late 19th century, of various patterns
and condition, the largest mounted on a turned hardwood base, helical
gear drive with wooden handled crank and lever advance, ht. to 11 in.
$200-300
304.
Two Brass Rounding-up Tools, Switzerland or France, c. 1875, the
first, a vice-held gear-powered tool with a lever-adjusted arbor fixed to a
dovetail slide (turned wood handle broken), lg. 9 1/4, ht. 5, wd. 7; the
second, a vice-held crank-powered tool, pivoting arbor, brass pulley,
uprighting frame on a dovetail slide, lg. 10, ht. 8, wd. 5 1/2 in.
Note: See Crom #2 for a discussion of these tools on pp. 590-593,
with the first of these tools pictured as figure 1166.
$200-300
305.
Six-Drawer Watch Crystal Cabinet, America, early 20th century, with
molded top and base, two fitted drawers containing hundreds of watch
crystals in various sizes, other drawers empty, ht. 20, wd. 25, dp. 18 in.
$400-600
306.
Three-Drawer Watchmaker’s Parts Cabinet, America, early 20th
century, the top two drawers with glazed fronts and shaped aluminum
pulls and the bottom drawer unglazed with brass mounted turned wood
pulls, all on molded base, the top drawer containing a large assortment
of approximately 200 mostly American brass and copper enamel watch
dials, the middle drawer an assortment of scrap watch movements and
a few dials, and the bottom drawer more scrap movements and dials,
ht. 9, case wd. 21 1/2, case dp. 16 in.
$200-400
307.
Pine Lift-top Box, probably mid-19th century, the top with molded
edge and recessed panel opens to an interior with lift-out tray, on
molded base, ht. 8, case wd. 10 1/2, case dp. 8, together with a
single-drawer bowfront box (alterations), ht. 3, wd. 15, dp. 13 in.
$75-125
308.
Seven Watch Part Boxes or Chests, 19th/20th centuries, including
three hinged boxes, a leather-covered cabinet, an aluminum cabinet,
and a three-drawer cabinet, (losses and imperfections), ht. to 7 1/2, wd.
to 13 1/2 in.
$200-400
309.
Four Brass and Steel Die Stock Tools, England and Continental,
18th/19th centuries, three steel examples and a brass and steel tool
with turned wood handle, lg. 5 1/2-12 1/4 in.
Note: Examples of these tools are illustrated in Crom #2, p. 609, figure
1192 and 1196, and there are similar examples from trade catalogues
shown in 18th and 19th century trade catalogues, illustrated as figures
193, 243, 309, and 347 in the same volume.
$150-200
310.
Group of Eight Steel or Brass Die Stocks, England, 19th century,
including single die stock and multiple die stock examples, some
marked, lg. 5 1/2-10 3/4 in.
$125-175
311.
Three Metal Fly Presses of Various Sizes, mounted on a wooden
board.
$100-150
312.
Five Small Anvils and an Iron Casting Mold, mostly 20th century,
including a 19th century bench example set into a cast iron base, two
advertising anvils, and a casting mold for metal slabs, ht. 2-3 3/4 in.
$50-75
313.
Two Boxed Screwhead and Tip Polishing Tools, possibly
Switzerland, c. 1900, the boxed sets with knurl-handled tools and
varied attachments, together with additional related items, box lg. 8-8
1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2, pp. 573-574, figures 1143 and 1144 discuss and
show this type of tool.
$100-150
314.
Large Group of Watch Screws, mostly 20th century, housed in two
long hinged leather cases, a wooden slide-lid case, and three turned
wood circular cases, case lg. to 10 1/2, circular boxes dia. 1 3/4-2 3/4
in.
$75-125
315.
Group of Miscellaneous Horological and Other Tools and Parts,
19th and 20th centuries, calipers, screwdrivers, clock wheels, clock
hand templates, in a cardboard box.
$200-250
316.
Two Brass Demonstration Chronometer Balances, England, 19th
century, dia. 5 3/4, 11 1/2 in.
$150-250
317.
Large Assorted Lot of Miscellaneous Tool Parts, mostly 19th
century, lathe tailstocks, components for mandrels, turned wood
handles, and fastening screws.
$100-150
318.
“Beebe Binocular Loupe” Magnifying Glasses, American Optical
Company, c. 1900, with original box, together with two incomplete
watch movements and related parts, (glasses box worn), box ht. 2 3/4,
wd. 3 3/4, dp. 5 1/2 in.
$75-125
319.
Fourteen Eye Loupes and Magnifiers, late 19th/early 20th century,
including examples made of horn, plastic, and metal, (many with chips
and losses), ht. 1 1/4-1 3/4 in.
Note: These loupes and others like them are discussed in Crom #2, p.
546.
$100-150
320.
Two Adjustable Bench Magnifiers, likely America, 20th century, one of
brass with domed base, the other steel with flat base and knurled
thumbscrew tightener, ht. 9, 15 in., respectively.
$50-100
321.
Fourteen Mostly Glass and Tin Jeweler’s Alcohol or Spirit Lamps
and Accessories, mostly America, late 19th/early 20th century, the
lamps of varied form, along with six brass or plated brass blowpipes,
and two brass alcohol torches, lamps ht. 1 3/4-7 1/2, pipes lg. 8 1/4-
10, torches lg. 6 1/2, 9 1/2 in.
Note: These tools came in a variety of shapes and sizes, and were
available toward the end of the nineteenth century. Altogether they
were used for a number of purposes including soldering. They are
illustrated in at least two catalogues reproduced in Crom #2, in figures
587 (blowpipe) and 702 (lamp).
$100-150
322.
Brass Boxed “Universal Wecker,” France or Switzerland, 19th
century, marked on a tag GALERIE DE VALOR/PALAIS ROYAL/NO.
164, one of the parts further marked R.G. SELKE, together with a
pocket watch, box ht. 3, wd. 4 1/2, dp. 3 1/4, tool lg. 4 in.
$200-300
323.
Oak Table-top Watch Display Case, late 19th century, with convex
glazed front, glazed sides and mirror back, plaque on front reads J.
Riswig, 208 & 210 Randolph Street, Chicago, wd. 18 1/2, ht. 9 1/2, dp.
12 1/4 in.
$200-300
324.
Three Waltham, Massachusetts, Related Items, Waltham,
Massachusetts, late 19th/early 20th century, two mainspring gauges, a
boxed “Watchmakers Gage. [sic],” and other Waltham-made items
including a watch dial and a hole gauge.
$100-150
325.
Assorted Watch and Movement Holders and Four Pocket Watches,
late 19th/early 20th century, including a wood stand with six spaces to
store pocket watches vertically; a modern Lucite cylinder holding a
brass movement, the movement inscribed V.A.P. BREVETE S.G.D.G.;
an adjustable steel poising tool marked HARDINGE BROS./CHICAGO;
and four pocket watches, one inscribed TIME BALL SPECIAL, another
marked Ingersoll/RELIANCE, (damage to dials), ht. 1 1/2-4 1/2, watch
dia. 2-2 1/4 in.
$200-250
326.
Painted Wood and Gilt-gesso Watchmaker’s Trade Sign, America or
England, late 19th century, the front with printed paper “dial,” the
reverse with evidence of similar decoration which is now gone, ht. 9 in.
$75-125
327.
Two Jewelling Rests, America, c. 1900, the rests and accessories
used to assist in the cutting of jewel seats, both wd. 6 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2, p. 488, discusses these tools, and mentions that tools
like them can be found in the late 19th century catalogues of both Otto
Young and Dreyfus & Co. (Crom #2 figures 495-496, 500, 597, and
599).
$100-150
328.
Teaching Pocket Watch Repair Kit MONTRE “INSTRUCTIVE,”
Switzerland, patented 1904, in its original labeled fitted box containing
clock repair tools, a pocket watch case with dial inscribed
INSTRUCTIVE, and parts, box 1 x 5 x 4 in.
$100-150
329.
Lever-escapement Model by S.G. Luvis, 1910, the Masonite case
supports the brass and steel model marked with maker’s name on top
plate with escape wheel and pallets under one bridge and the 3 1/4 in.
two-arm brass balance wheel with coiled hair spring, regulator and cap
jewel under another, both bridges with turned brass pillars and powered
by a simple two wheel, spring-powered movement mounted on the
underside, 7 in. square.
$500-800
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336

335

337 (partial)
334 (partial)
330.
Seven Iron or Steel Tools, 19th/20th centuries, including a wood
handled riveting hammer, a pair of broaching tongs, two pair wire
drawing tongs, an adjustable wrench, shears, and another pair of tongs,
lg. 4 3/4-12 1/4 in.
Note: For descriptions of these tools, see Crom #2, pp. 556-558,
especially figures 1108 and 1112.
$100-150
331.
Brass Wax Seals and a Cast Brass Toggle, 19th century, the seven
seals with scrolling and floral rococo designs, the toggle showing a
workbench, together with two wooden handles fashioned to fit over the
tapering shafts of the seals, longest lg. with handle 6 in.
$100-150
332.
“South Bend Direct Current Watch Demagnetizer,” The Knobloch-
Heideman Manufacturing Company, South Bend, Indiana, early 20th
century, with direct current cord and maker’s label on underside of
mounting platform, ht. 6, platform lg. 10, platform dp. 5 in.
$50-75
333.
Ten Brass or Whalebone Watchmaker’s Drill Bows, likely 19th
century, seven whalebone examples and three of brass, together with a
glass canister with horsehairs to string the bows, lg. 10-20 1/2 in.
Note: Crom #2, p. 306, figure 592, shows an example of a whalebone
drill bow for sale in an 1886 catalogue. The bow is used to power
watchmaker’s turns and lathes.
$150-200
334.
Four Adjustable Drilling Bows, England, 18th/19th century, with
turned wood handles, brass mounts, and ratchets to adjust tension;
together with four watchmaker’s bows, three of whalebone; overall lg. 9
1/2-22 in.
Note: For discussions of drilling bows see Crom #2 pp. 384-385 and
Crom #3 pp. 306-307; for an example from a period catalogue of a
whalebone watchmaker’s bow see Crom #2, p. 306, figure 592.
$200-400
335.
Turned Hardwood and Steel Pump Drill, possibly England, 19th
century, a sliding horizontal handle attached to the vertical axis by a
string which, when wound, spins the drill bit, lg. 19, wd. 10 3/4 in.
Note: For a discussion of this drill, also known as an Archimedean drill,
see Crom #3, p. 305.
$200-300
336.
Turned Wood, Brass, and Steel Pump Drill, England, late 18th/early
19th century, the edge of the wheel inscribed VN, ht. 11 1/2 in. without
bit.
Note: A similar drill is illustrated in Crom #2, p. 429, figure 862.
$200-300
337.
Ten Drills and Two Drilling Braces, England and Switzerland, mostly
19th century, including six bow drills with turned wood handles and
brass mounts, three (one boxed) with ivory bowstring pulleys; and four
“Archimedes” drills; one drilling brace of steel, the other nickel; lg. 6-15
1/2 in.
Note: Drilling is covered extensively in Crom #2, pp. 427-436. In those
pages, readers are referred to examples of such drilling tools illustrated
in Wyke’s and Stubs’ tool catalogues, especially figures 245 and 308.
$400-600
338.
Group of Bow-drilling Tools, 19th/20th centuries, including three
bows, two with wood handles, one iron; and approximately twenty
drilling arbors, bow lg. to 35, arbor lg. to 8 1/2 in.
$300-500
339.
Iron Bow Drill with Breastplate and Arbor, England, late 19th century,
the flat steel bow with wooden handle, ratchet wheel and detent to
tighten the cord, unmarked breastplate and one wood and steel arbor,
lg. of bow 32 in.
$250-350
340.
Bow Drill, England, 19th century, with steel breastplate stamped The
WL S & Griffith Warrington and C&M 1886, steel bow with hardwood
handle and two drilling arbors, lg. of bow 34 1/2 in.
$300-500
341.
Three Wood, Brass, and Steel Pump Drills, 20th century, the drills of
varying design but built on the same principle, lg. 11-20 1/4 in.,
together with a small turned wood cylindrical box with drill bits.
Note: See Crom #2, p. 429, for an illustration of a similar drill.
$200-300
342.
Three Pump Drills of Similar Design, all with hardwood handles, steel
and brass weighted arbors, max. lg. 16 in.
$150-250
343.
Two Brass and Steel Crank Hand Drills, America and England, late
18th/early 19th century, with wood handles, lg. 12 3/4, 13 1/2 in.
$150-250
344.
Two Wood-Handled Crank Brass and Steel Hand Drills, America
and England, 19th century, with knurled three-jaw chuck assemblies,
one handhold inlaid with bone, lg. 14 1/2, 19 in.
$150-250
345.
Three Brass and Steel Crank Hand Drills, England and America,
19th/early 20th centuries, two with turned wood handles, lg. 10 1/4-14
in.
$100-150

348
346.
Steel Cylinder Polishing Tool, France, late 19th century, the wood-
handled tool strung with polishing wire, lg. 39 1/2 in.
$250-450
347.
Six Ivory-Handled Tools, likely 19th century, including two fretting or
piercing saws, a small peening hammer with partial horn handle, two
countersinks, and a buttonhole cutter, lg. 2 1/4-11 1/2 in.
$300-500
348.
Six Ivory Measures, England and America, 19th/20th century,
including two folding rules, one 12 in. example, unmarked; a 24 in.
example marked JOHNSON, the STANLEY MILLS; two crystal gauges,
one marked C.B. JOHNSON PRESCOT, the other GOODWIN; a sliding
caliper; and a folding rule with a sliding caliper marked E.A. STEARNS &
CO.
$200-400
347
349.
Nine Saws, late 19th century, including five piercing or fretting saws
with turned wood handles, one with a modern hacksaw blade; three
hacksaws, two in the Lancashire pattern; and a large hacksaw with a
pistol grip; fretting saw lg. approximately 13 1/2 each, dp. 9-15;
hacksaws lg. 13 3/4-15 1/2; large saw 25 1/4 in.
$300-500
350.
Collection of Eleven Iron and Steel Tools, 18th/19th centuries,
including beam compasses and wood turner’s calipers, all wired to a
plywood backboard and housed in a wooden shadow box frame, with
identifying explanatory text provided by the owner, (breaks to Plexiglas),
box 25 x 31 x 5 in.
$600-800
 351 with detail views
The Ted Crom Horological Library, Session I, Lots 351-414 (Session II,
November 20, 2010)
351.
Institutio Astronomica by Pierre Gassendi (1582-1655), London:
Jacob Flesher, 1653, Institutio Astronomica...cui accesserunt Galileo
Galilei Nuntius Siderius et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice...secunda editio...,
Gassendi, in this first work by Galileo printed in England, drew on the
work of Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler in this refutation of the
terrocentric universe.
$3,000-5,000
352.
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage,
William Edward Parry (1790-1855), London: John Murray, 1821, xxix +
310 + appendix of 179pp. with folding charts, etching and aquatint
illustrations by William Bury Westall, A.R.A. (1781-1850) from sketches
by Lieutenant Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), contemporary full
calf with blind stamping and gilt ruling, marbled end papers; bookplate
of John Bacon Sawrey Morritt of Rokeby Park inside front cover, small
signature bookplate of William Rhinelander pasted on front and etching
The Habits of the Esquimaux pasted on back of t.p.
$3,000-4,000
 352 with detail view
353 with detail view
353.
Astronomical and Geographical Essays, London: George Adams,
1789, xviv + 665 with 15pp. catalogue of instruments, 21 folding plates,
uncut, untrimmed, as issued in paper-covered boards with paper spine,
some tattering to top of spine, with bookplates of Skene Library and
Ted Crom inside front cover and housed in a modern clamshell box with
leather spine.
$800-1,200
354.
The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments,
M. Bion, London: The Holland Press, 1972, a reprint of the second and
best English edition first published in 1758 covering a wide range of
mathematical and scientific instruments, 325pp., engraved illustrations.
$150-250

355
355.
The Circle of the Mechanical Arts, Martin, Thomas, London: Richard
Rees, 1813, 616pp. + 38 engraved plates, bound in paper-covered
boards, the front board printed as a title page and nearly detached, the
back board now detached, 2 in. loss to top of spine, housed in a
modern clamshell box with leather spine.
Note: The author cites Joseph Moxon’s Mechanic Exercises (1683) as
a model for his work. One source suggests that Thomas Martin is a
pseudonym for John Farey (1766-1826), who contributed a number of
items to Rees’s Cyclopedia.
$200-400
356 with detail view
356.
The Principles of Mechanics...the Second Edition, Emerson, William,
(1701-1782), London: J. Richardson, 1758, 284pp. + 43 folding plates,
original calf binding, skillfully re-backed.
$250-450
357.
Traite de la Construction and Usages es Instrumens de
Mathematique, Bion, N. La Haye (Den Haag): P. Husson, etc., 1723,
389 + 2pp., 28 folding plates and engraved frontispiece, contemporary
full calf binding, glued repair at joints.
$800-1,200
358.
Select Mechanical Exercises, Ferguson, James (1710-1776), London:
W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773, 272pp., 9 folding plates, contemporary
calf, re-backed with cloth.
$400-600
359.
The General Shop Book: or, The Tradesman’s Universal Director,
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1753, unpaginated; 2 folding maps,
19th century binding, the maps re-backed with paper.
$200-300
360.
A Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England,
Head, George (1782-1855), New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836,
348pp., original stamped cloth binding, published simultaneously with
and English edition by J. Murray.
$100-150
361.
The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, London:
G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824, iv + 454pp., 70 plates, calf, boards
detached, spine split along the gathers which are loose or detached.
Note: The preface sums up the essence and purpose of this book, “In
a commercial empire, like the United Kingdom, to acquaint the rising
generation with details of various trades, and with their origin and
history, must be considered as a praiseworthy effort.”
$150-250
 357 with detail view

362.
Mechanic Powers or the Mystery of Nature and Art Unvail’d,
Mandey, Venterus (1646-1702) [Joseph Moxon], London: printed for
Thomas Shelmerdine, 1709, 315pp. + a two-page catalog of
mathematical instruments and books sold by Joseph Moxon and errata,
17 folding plates, 19th century marbled boards, re-backed in linen and
erroneously dated 1799 on the spine.
363.
The Earliest Directory of The Book Trade, by John Penred (1785),
Pollard, Graham, ed. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1955,
supplement no. 14 to the Society’s Transactions, xxiii + 90pp. with
facsimiles of Penred’s trade bill and of the title page of Penred’s 1785
Vade Mecum., paper covers.
$100-150

Note: There is an earlier, 1696, edition of this same work, which is a

mathematical treatise on mechanical advantage arranged in ten books,
the ninth and tenth of which deal specifically with the mechanics of
clocks.
$200-300

358 with detail view

 365
364
364.
Simon Willard and His Clocks, Willard, John Ware, 1911, 133pp.,
numerous plates, some colored, no. 326 of a limited edition of 500
copies written by the great grandson of Simon Willard, in the original
binding and embossed in gold on the cover with title and a “patent
timepiece.”
Note: Long considered an early source of biographical information on
the Willards and their apprentices, this first edition has been reproduced
in many formats since initially published.
$200-400
365.
Four Books on Connecticut Clockmaking, including, Penrose
Hoopes, Shop Records of Daniel Burnap, Clockmaker and Connecticut
Clockmakers of the 18th Century, Amos Avery, Avery Clockmakers and
Craftsmen and Chauncey Jerome, American Clock Making, 1860.
$300-500
366.
Five Titles on Regional American Clockmaking, including Parsons,
New Hampshire Clocks and Clockmakers, Whisker and Hartzler,
Maryland Clockmakers, Wood, Clockmakers of Lancaster County and
Their Clocks, Chandlee, Six Quaker Clockmakers (1975 reprint), and
Drost, Clocks and Watches of New Jersey (two volumes signed by
numerous horological dignitaries, a practice that Ted Crom enjoyed
while at conferences.
$200-300
367.
Five Standard Reference Titles on Connecticut Clocks, including
Bailey, Two Hundred Years of American Clocks and Watches (boxed
copy 73 of 1,000), Roberts, Eli Terry and the Connecticut Shelf Clock
and The Contributions of Joseph Ives to Connecticut Clock Technology,
1810-1862, and finally two by Snowden Taylor, The clocks of Mark
Leavenworth and The Developmental Era of Eli Terry and Seth Thomas
Shelf Clocks.
$200-250
368.
Four Books on the Willard Clockmakers of Massachusetts,
including Paul J. Foley, Willard’s Patent Timepieces, Husher and Welch,
A Study of Simon Willard’s Clocks, Robinson & Burt, The Willard House
and Clock Museum and the Willard Family of Clockmakers and
Chipman Ela, The Banjo Timepiece.
$200-400
369.
Six Early Studies of American Clocks, including Palmer, The Book of
American Clocks and A Treasury of American Clocks, N. Hudson
Moore, The Collector’s Manual and The Old Clock Book, and two
editions, 1924 and 1935 of The Clock Book by Wallace Nutting.
$100-200
370.
Complete Set of Ted Crom Horological Publications, all in new
condition and as cited in catalogue references, Horological Wheel
Cutting Engines, 1700-1900 (1970), Horological Shop Tools, 1700-1900
(1980), Horological & Other Shop Tools, 1700-1900 (1987), Trade
Catalogues, 1542-1842 (1989), An Eighteenth Century English Brass
Hardware Catalogue (1994) and Early Lancashire Horological Tools &
Their Makers (1994).
$300-500
371.
Catalogue of the Collection of Watches of J. Pierpont Morgan, G.
C. Williamson, Litt.D., Paris: F. De Nobele, 1912, 244 pp. with applied
B&W plates, a large and impressive book, ht. 15, wd. 11 1/2, and 4 in.
thick.
$300-500
372.
English Lantern Clocks, George White, Suffolk: Antique Collector’s
Club, 1989, the definitive work on the subject in 539pp. with 850 B&W
and 8 color illustrations.
Note: Another book signed by a number of notable authorities in the
world of horology on its end papers and title page (see explanation of
this practice under lot 366).
$150-250
 377 (two views)
373.
Thomas Tompion His Life and Work, R. W. Symonds, London: B.T.
Batsford Ltd., 1951, 415pp., B&W and color plates, two fold-out
illustrations.
$150-250
374.
The Knibb Family Clockmakers, Ronald A. Lee, Surrey: The Manor
House Press, 1964, No. 397 of a limited edition of 1,000, with dust
jacket.
$200-400
375.
English Domestic Clocks, by Cescinsky and Webster, London:
Routledge & Sons, 1914, 350pp. and approximately 400 illustrations,
together with another work by the same author, The Old Master
Clockmakers and Their Clocks, 1670-1820, published in 1938 with
180pp. and 275 illustrations, and a copy of Parke-Bernet Galleries sale
catalogue of Old English Clocks dated 1948.
$150-250
378 (two views)
376.
The Art of Breguet, George Daniels, London and New York: Sotheby
Parke Bernet, 1975, approximately 400pp., with 450 B&W and color
plates.
$200-300
377.
Leeds Pottery Trade Catalogue, probably Leeds, England, n.d., c.
1814, 71 engraved plates printed on wove paper with watermark
“1814” in an apparently contemporary binding with marbled paper-
covered boards and calf spine.
$1,000-1,500
378.
Brass Founder’s Furniture Hardware Trade Catalogue, no date or
origin, probably Birmingham, 1770-80, 82 engraved plates, with prices
added in ms. in later binding of marbled paper-covered boards with calf
spine and corners, labeled “Furniture fittings pattern book” and
erroneously dated 1817 on spine.
$800-1,200

379 (three views)
379.
Brass Hardware Catalogue of John Ratcliff & Son, St. Paul’s Square,
Birmingham, c. 1834, inscribed on index page Radcliff [sic] & Son/May
1834, 225 plates, some folding, most printed on both sides, clean and
bright copy in original marbled boards with remnants of morocco spine,
re-backed in brown calf; one half of plate 46 excised, previous owner’s
signature on (replaced) front end cover.
$800-1,200
380 (two views)
380.
Recueil Des Outils et Machines and Manuel De L’Outillage,
Wertheim, Franz Freiherr von (1814-1883), Vienna: Carl Gerold sohn,
1869, unbound folio of approximately 43 plates illustrating Austrian
woodworking tools shown at the Paris Exposition of 1867, many hand-
colored, all in an archival storage box.
Note: For a discussion and numerous plates of another seemingly
identical folio held at the Winterthur Museum and Library see Crom #3,
pp. 169-178.
$1,000-1,500
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382 (two views)

381.
Trade Catalogue of Tools attributed to Bell & Tomkin, probably
Sheffield, c. 1840, 56 engraved plates, two folding, on wove paper in
apparently contemporary marbled paper binding with cloth spine.
$800-1,200
383.
Manuel du tourneur, Paris, J.-M. Eberhart pour Hamelin-Bourgeron,
1816, three volumes in contemporary marbled boards, untrimmed, re-
backed and corners reinforced in calf and book plate of balloonist
Captain Henry B. H. Beaufoy (1786-1851).
$500-800

382.
L’art du Tourneur Mecanicien, premier partie, M. Hulot, pere, Paris: 384.
L. F. Delatour, 1775, 390pp. + 43 plates, one folding. Partial Set of Disbound Plates from Manuel du Tourneur, Bergeron,
L.-E. [Louis G.I. Salivet (1737-1805)], Paris, J.-M. Eberhart pour
$600-800 Hamelin-Bourgeron, 1816, 80 plates, six hand-colored.
$400-600
 385.
Catalogue des Machines, Instruments, Outils, Ivoires, Bois
Etrangers, et autre objets relative aux arts, Paris, J.-M. Eberhart
pour Hamelin-Bourgeron, 1817, catalogue of tools and materials
compiled to accompany Bergeron L’art du tourneur, rebound in marbled
boards, edges slightly trimmed, excise stamps in margins.
$300-500

386.
Four Publications on Astronomical Clocks, including Maurice Mayre,
the Clockwork Universe, Henry C. King, Geared to the Stars: The
Evolution of Planetariums, Orreries and Astronomical Clocks, Joseph
Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, et al, The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean
Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780 and a paper by Silvio
A. Bedini, The Borghesi Astronomical Clock, from the United States
National Museum Bulletin, No. 240.
$200-400

387.
Two Books on English Clocks by Herbery Cescinsky, including
English Clocks, undated, 429pp. of clock descriptions and illustrations
taken from English Furniture of the 18th Century and The Old English
Master Clockmakers and Their Clocks, 1670-1820, 1938, 181pp. of
text and 275 clock illustrations.
$100-150

388.
Four Time Museum Publications, Rockford, Illinois, 1984, 85, and 91,
including Turner, Time Measuring Instruments, Randall, Chronometers,
and Hoke, American Pocket Watches.
$200-300

389.
Breguet, Salomons, David Lionel (1851-1925), London: 1921, ix +
233pp.; 52pp. supplement, photographic plates, deluxe binding with
paper covered boards, parchment spine, printed for the author in an
addition of 1,000.
$150-250

390.
Breguet, Salomons, David Lionel (1851-1925), London: 1921, ix +
233pp.; 52pp. supplement, photographic plates, trade cloth binding,
printed for the author in an edition of 1000.
$200-400

391.
Nouveau Manuel complet de L’horloger, Le Normand, Sebastien,
Paris: 1837, 320pp., 9 folding plates and cloth binding.
$100-150

392.
Annales des Arts et Manufactures, tome XV, R.O. Reilly, Paris:
Imprimerie des Annales, 1804, 336pp. + 11 folding plates,
contemporary full calf binding, first fly leaf partially detached.

Note: This is the fifteenth volume of a French periodical and contains

an article on wheel cutting illustrated with one plate.
$250-450

393.
Der Uhrmacher, Brandenburg, 1761-62, from Halle, Werkstate der
heutigen kunste, pp. 239-306 from the larger work rebound in a small
folio, one folding plate plus a frontispiece, hand-colored, engraved
bookplate of a member of the Downe family.
$150-250

383 (three views)

 394 (two views)

394.
Essai sur L’horlogerie... seconde edition... tome second, Berthoud,
Ferdinand (1727-1807), Paris: J.G. Merigot, etc., 1786, 451pp., 38
folding plates, contemporary full calf binding; glued repair at joints.
$600-800
395.
L’art de L’horlogerie, enseigne en trente lecons... augmente...par
un ancien eleve de Breguet, Paris: chez audin, 1827, 620pp. + 17
folding plates in contemporary binding of decorative paper-covered
boards and calf spine.
$200-400

395 (two views)

 396 (two views)

396.
The Elements of Clock and Watch-work, Adapted to Practice,
Cumming, Alexander 192pp., 16 folded plates in contemporary marbled
boards, re-backed and corners reinforced, with owner’s signatures on
first and second fly leaves, “Josiah Woodley/Kineton/April 21 1795” and
“Josiah Woodley/Kington [sic]/Oct 29th 1821.”
$800-1,200
397.
Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, Reid, Thomas, Edinburgh:
John Fairbairn, 1826, 476pp., 19 folding plates, contemporary paper-
covered cloth boards, spine recovered with clock and new endpapers.
$200-400

397 (two views)

 405 (two views)
398.
Four Books on Early Watches, including Watches by Clutton &
Daniels, The Watch by Catherine Cardinal, Catalogue of Watches in the
British Museum by Anthony Randall and Richard Good and Pocket
Watches from the Pendant Watch to the Tourbillon by Richard Meis.
$250-450
399.
French Clocks the World Over, Tardy Paris: Tardy, 1981-85 Edition,
three hardbound volumes, part 1, 3, and 4 and an additional softbound
volume titled La Pendule Francaise, 3me. Partie: Provinces et Etranger,
and hardbound edition of the same volume.
$150-250
400.
The Longcase Clock Reference Book, John Robey, Ashbourne:
Mayfield Books, 2001, a widely respected reference book with
approximately 800 pages in two volumes, illustrations and maker’s
listings.
$100-150
401.
Four Books on Early Clocks, including Early English Clocks by
Dawson, Drover and Parkes, Grandfather Clocks and Their Cases by
Brian Loomes, and finally, The Grandfather Clock and The Story of the
Pendulum Clock by Ernest Edwardes.
$200-400
402.
Four Swiss Titles on Technical Horology, including J.C. Nicolet, De
La Main a La Machine: Collection du Musee International d’ Horlogerie
La Chaux-de-Fonds, two titles by Henry-Louis Belmont, La Montre
Methodes & Outillages de Fabrication du XVI au XIX Siecle and
L’Echappement a Cylindre, 1720-1950; and J. A. LePaute, Traite
D’Horlogerie, (1975 reprint, originally published in 1755).
$150-250
403.
Ten Books on Horological History and Clock Repair, including but
not limited to G.H. Baillie, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World
with gilt spine, Brearly Time Telling Through the Ages, several books by
Britten and others.
$100-150
404.
Twelve Books on Horological History and Clock Repair, including
but not limited to Milham, Time and Time Keepers, Benson, Time and
Time Tellers, Ullyett, In Quest of Clocks, and Gordon, Clockmaking Past
and Present and others.
$150-200
405.
The Artificial Clock-maker, Derham, William (1657-1735), the Third
Edition, with large Emendations and Additions, London: James
Knapton, 1714, 140pp., 3 folding plates and one in test, in a fine 20th
century full polished calf binding with marbled end papers.
Note: This text includes an account of the beginnings of English
clockmaking from a Fellow of the Royal Society who knew many of the
principals involved. Previous editions were published in 1696 and 1700.
$300-500
 406
406.
Horlogerie, from Diderot, Denis, et al., Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire
universel raisonne des connoissances humaines. Mis en ordre par M.
de Felice., Yverdon, 1770-80, 64 engraved plates and 25pp. of text,
paper-covered boards, cloth spine, (damp stains).
$500-700
407.
Essai sur L’Horlogerie...seconde edition...tome premier, Berthoud,
Ferdinand (1727-1807), Paris: J. G. Merigot, etc., 1786, 477 + 9pp., 19
folding plates, contemporary full calf binding; glued repair at joints.
$400-600
407 (two views)
408.
L’Art Du Menuisier, J.A. Roubo, Paris: Leonce Laget, 1976, French
text Libraire-Editeur, four volumes within three covers, including
Menuisier Ebeniste and Carrossier, approximately 1,000pp. and 382
engraved plates, ht. 17, wd. 12, 3 1/2 in. thick.
$300-500
409.
Der Uhrmacher, von J. G. Geibler, Osnabruck, 1980, German text in
ten volumes reprinted from the original late 18th century document.
$200-300
 410.
Swiss Timepiece Makers, 1775-1975 and Technique and History of
the Swiss Watch, Kathleen H. Pritchard, and Jaquet and Chapuis, the
first, Maine: Phoenix Publishing, 1997, an alphabetical listing of nearly
2,000 watch companies filling approximately 1,800 pages in two
volumes and the next, London: Spring Books, 1970, hardbound
volume, 275 pp.
$100-150

411.
Pendules Neuchateloises, Documents nouveau, Zurich, M.S. Metz
[n.d., c. 1935], 277pp., half-tone illustrations in text, 23 color plates,
gilt-stamped cloth binding.
$100-200

412.
Histoire de la Pendulerie Neuchateloise, Chapuis, Alfred, Paris:
Attinger Freres, [1917], xii + 489pp., half-tone plates in test, blind and
gilt-stamped cloth binding.
$150-200

413.
The Clock and Watchmaker’s Complete Guide, Partington, Charles
Frederick (d. 1857?), London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1825,
96pp., rebound; lacks title page.
$100-200

414.
The Artificial Clock-maker...the Fourth Edition, corrected, Derham,
William (1657-1753), London: J. Knapton, 1759, 160pp., three folding
plates and one in test, contemporary calf binding, spine recovered in
cloth.
$400-600
414 (two views)
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420
The David Evans Collection of Liverpool Watches, Lots 415-468
415.
Silver Pair-Cased Rack Lever Watch by Robert Roskell, Liverpool,
serial #3747, hallmarked 1806, bell-shaped balance cock, engraved
with a basket of flowers on the table, serpentine foot inscribed Patent,
four-wheel train with flat steel balance, the fusee with maintaining power
and two-way slides, white enameled dial with black Arabic chapters and
gold spade hands with 60-seconds subsidiary dial, case stamped EI
(Edward Jones) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1806, overall dia.
56 mm.
$850-950
416.
18kt Gold Consular Case Massey Lever Watch by John Moncas,
Liverpool, serial #2128, c. 1820, tapered balance cock engraved with
flowers, curved engraved foot, four-wheel train with Massey Type III
escapement, round steel balance, fusee formerly with maintaining
power, engine-turned gold dial with raised Roman chapters, gold steel
spade hands, case stamped TH & JH (Thomas and John Helsby), band
cast with flowers and bearing an illegible Chester hallmark, overall dia.
45 mm.
$700-900
417.
Silver Rack Lever Pair-Cased Watch by Thomas Cockshoot,
Liverpool, un-numbered, hallmarked 1835, long narrow balance cock
engraved with basket of flowers on the table, serpentine foot inscribed
Patent, four-wheel train with flat steel balance and now with bi-metallic
temperature compensation curb, fusee with maintaining power and
two-way slides, white enameled dial with black Roman chapters and
gold spade hands with 60-seconds subsidiary dial, silver case stamped
HA (Henry Adamson) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1835, overall
dia. 56 mm.
Note: Temperature compensation curb was undoubtedly added for a
special expedition shortly after 1835.
$500-700
418.
18kt Gold Consular Case Massey Lever Watch by M. Tobias &
Company, Lord Street, Liverpool, serial #22213, c. 1825, half plate
layout with spring up dust cap, three engraved cocks, round gold
balance, Massey Type III escapement and fusee with maintaining power,
gold engine-turned dial with raised Roman chapters and three-color
gold wreath around the perimeter, blued-steel hand (minute hand
missing), case marked CG, PH &IE and 18, overall dia. 46 mm.
$500-700
419.
Silver Consular Hunting Case Massey Lever Watch by Richard
Hornby, Liverpool, serial #19642, hallmarked 1825, bell-shaped
balance cock, engraved with basket of flowers on the table, curved
engraved foot, four-wheel train with round steel balance, Massey Type III
escapement, fusee with maintaining power, cream enameled dial with
black Roman chapters and gold spade hands with 60-seconds
subsidiary dial, milled band silver case stamped TE & HF (Thomas
Ellison and Henry Fishwick) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1825,
overall dia. 56 mm.
$350-550
420.
Silver Pair-Cased Massey Lever Watch by John Pickford, Liverpool,
serial #500, hallmarked 1820, tapered balance cock engraved with a
liver bird on the table, curved foot inscribed Patent, four-wheel train with
round steel balance with rare Massey Type V escapement, fusee with
maintaining power, white enameled dial with black Roman chapters and
gilt spade hands with 60-seconds subsidiary dial, silver case stamped
NL (Nicholas Lee) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1820, overall
dia. 57 mm.
$350-550
421.
Silver Massey Lever Watch by James D. Moss, Liverpool, serial
#3,722, hallmarked 1834, tapered floral engraved balance cock, curved
foot inscribed Detach’d, four-wheel train, Massey Type III lever-
escapement, unusual flat blued-steel balance with brass rim, fusee with
maintaining power, cream enameled dial with black Roman chapters,
subsidiary seconds dial, brass spade hands, silver case and marked EK
(Edward Kirkman), bearing the Chester hallmark 1834, overall dia. 51
mm.
$200-300
422.
Silver Cased Massey Lever Watch by Samuel Johnson, Liverpool,
serial #38, hallmarked 1836, floral engraved balance cock with
serpentine foot inscribed Detached, four-wheel train, Massey Type III
lever-escapement, flat blued-steel balance with brass rim, fusee with
maintaining power, cream enameled dial with black Roman chapters,
subsidiary seconds dial, gilt spade hands, silver case with gold nibs and
marked TE & HF (Thomas Ellison and Henry Fishwick), bearing the
Chester hallmark 1836, dust cap marked with possible owner Hugh
Hughes, overall dia. 50 mm.
$200-300
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426

425

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427
423.
18kt Gold Open Face Massey Lever Watch by John Harrison,
Liverpool, serial #9,682, hallmarked 1837, 3/4 plate movement with
floral engraved balance cock, barrel bridge marked Detached Lever,
Massey Type III escapement, four-wheel train with fusee round gold
balance, engine-turned dial with raised Roman chapters, gold moon
hands, case marked HF (Henry Fishwick), floral engraved case back,
hinge cuvette marked Set Hands and Wind Up, Chester Hallmark for
1837, overall dia. 41 mm.
$600-800
424.
Silver Consular Case Massey Lever Watch by Peter Jones,
Liverpool, serial #800, hallmarked 1829, tapered balance cock with
table engraved with flowers and marked Patent, curved foot marked
Detach’d, Massey Type III lever-escapement, Liverpool “runner” four-
wheel train, five-arm round gold balance, fusee with maintaining power,
cream enamel dial with Roman numerals and blued-steel hands, case
marked JP (John Parsonage) and bears the Chester hallmark for 1829,
overall dia. 56 mm.
Note: Watch case is designed as a hunter with numeral three at crown
and crystal opening by depressing the button.
$200-400
425.
Silver Hunting Case Massey Lever Watch by George Yonge & Son,
Strand, London, serial #8754, hallmarked 1824, tapered balance cock,
engraved with basket of flowers on the table, curved foot engraved
Patent, four-wheel train with round steel balance, unusual Massey Type
II escapement, fusee with maintaining power, cream enameled dial with
black Roman chapters and gold spade hands, 60-seconds subsidiary
dial, silver case stamped TH&Co (Thomas Helsby and Company) and
bearing the Chester hallmark for 1824, overall dia. 55 mm.
$300-400
426.
Silver Consular Case Massey Lever Watch by Massey and
Windham, 78 Cornhill, London, serial #1,978, hallmarked 1836, plain
balance cock with curved foot, four-wheel train, Massey Type III Lever-
escapement, round steel balance, fusee with maintaining power, cream
enameled dial with black Roman chapters and signed Massey &
Windham, 78 Cornhill, London, moon hands, case marked ID, London
hallmark for 1836, overall dia. 52 mm.
$200-300
427.
Silver Consular Case Half-Second’s Beating Watch by Thomas
Yates, Preston, serial #1,472, hallmarked 1850, tapered floral engraved
balance cock marked Patent on the curved foot, four-wheel train
jeweled with Liverpool “windows,” fusee with maintaining power, cream
enameled dial with Roman chapters, sunk second’s dial, gilt fleur-de-lis
hands, case marked EK&Co (Edward Kirkman), and bears Chester
hallmark for 1850, overall dia. 50 mm.
$650-850
428.
Two Silver Consular Cased Massey Lever Watches by Litherland,
Davis & Company, Liverpool, serial #13,621, hallmarked 1832 and
serial #19,349, hallmarked 1844, tapered engraved balance cocks,
curved foot inscribed Patent, four-wheel trains, Massey Type III lever-
escapements, round steel balances, fusees with maintaining power,
cream and white enameled dials with black Roman chapters, subsidiary
seconds dials, gold spade hands, silver cases with gold nibs and
marked RL (Richard Lucas), bearing the Chester hallmark 1832, the
other marked HF (Henry Fishwick) overall dia. 50 and 47 mm.
$300-500
429.
Silver Consular Cased Massey Lever Watch by Litherland, Davis &
Company, Liverpool, serial #13,780, hallmarked 1832, tapered floral
engraved balance cock, curved foot, four-wheel train, Massey Type III
lever-escapement, unusual grooved five-armed steel balance, fusee with
maintaining power, cream enameled dial with black Roman chapters,
subsidiary seconds dial, gilt spade hands, silver case with gold nibs and
marked RL (Richard Lucas), bearing the Chester hallmark 1832, overall
dia. 49 mm.
$350-550
430.
Silver Consular Case Rack Lever Watch by Litherland, Davis &
Company, Liverpool, serial #8,860, hallmarked 1815, tapered balance
cock, engraved with flowers on the table, serpentine foot inscribed
Patent, three-wheel train with round steel balance, fusee with
maintaining power and two-way slides, cream enameled dial with black
Roman chapters and blued-steel spade hands, silver case with milled
band, gold nibs and stamped EJ (Edward Jones) and bearing the
Chester hallmark for 1815, overall dia. 50 mm.
$600-800
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Silver Rack Lever Watch by Litherland & Company, Liverpool, serial
#6325, c. 1810, bell-shaped balance cock, engraved with flowers on
the table, serpentine foot inscribed Patent, three-wheel train with flat
steel balance, steel escape wheel and temperature compensation curb,
fusee once with maintaining power and two-way slides, white enameled
dial with black Roman chapters and blued-steel fleur-de-lis hands with
15-seconds subsidiary dial, now in a silver consular case stamped JD
and bearing the Dublin hallmark for 1861, overall dia. 54 mm.
Note: Case fitted specifically for this movement and carries identical
serial number. Compensation curb undoubtedly added for a special
expedition possibly at the time of re-casing.
$450-550
432.
Silver Pair-Cased Rack Lever Watch by Litherland, Whiteside &
Company, Liverpool, serial #6249, hallmarked 1810, long narrow
balance cock, engraved with Prince of Wales feathers on the table,
serpentine foot inscribed Patent, three-wheel train with flat steel
balance, fusee, two-way slides, white enameled dial with black Roman
chapters and gilt spade and loop hands, case stamped IE (John Ellison)
and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1810, overall dia. 54 mm.
$800-1,200
433.
Silver Pair-Cased Rack Lever Watch by Litherland & Company,
Liverpool, serial #3012, hallmarked 1802, bell-shaped balance cock,
engraved with grotesque mask on the table, serpentine foot inscribed
Patent, four-wheel train with flat steel balance, fusee and two-way
slides, white enameled dial with black Roman chapters and gilt spade
and loop hands with 60-seconds subsidiary dial, silver case stamped EI
(Edward Jones) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1802, overall dia.
56 mm.
$800-1,200
434.
Silver Pair-Cased Rack Lever Pocket Watch by Litherland, Davis &
Company, Liverpool, serial #10,052, hallmarked 1820, bell-shaped
balance cock, engraved with foliage and marked Patent on the table,
curved foot inscribed Lever, four-wheel train with round steel balance,
the fusee with maintaining power, two-way slides, cream enameled dial
with black Roman chapters and gilt spade hands with 60-seconds
subsidiary dial, silver case stamped THJH (Thomas & John Helsby) and
bearing the Chester hallmark for 1820, the outer case cast with flowers
and foliage, engine-turned back, overall dia. 57 mm.
This watch is the last recorded rack lever by Litherland extant.
$850-950
435.
18kt Gold Consular Case Cylinder Watch by Litherland, Davis &
Company, Liverpool, serial #10,107, hallmarked 1822, tapered balance
cock with floral engraving on the table, curved foot similarly engraved,
four-wheel train with round steel balance, fusee, and steel cylinder
escape wheel, engine-turned gold dial with raised Roman chapters,
gold spade hands, case marked TH & JH (Thomas and John Helsby),
Chester hallmark for 1822, overall dia. 46 mm.
Note: The present example remains as the only recorded cylinder
escapement watch by Litherland.
$1,500-2,500
436.
18kt Gold Pair-Cased Rack Lever Watch by Litherland & Company,
Liverpool, serial #3038, 1803, bell-shaped balance cock, engraved with
grotesque mask on the table, serpentine foot inscribed Patent, three-
wheel train with flat steel balance, the fusee with maintaining power and
two-way slides, white enameled dial with black Roman chapters and gilt
spade hands with 15-seconds subsidiary dial, 18kt gold case stamped
TH (Thomas Helsby) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1803, overall
dia. 54 mm.
$1,500-2,500
437.
Pair of Gilt-metal Pair-Cased Rack Lever Watches with
Complementary Dials by Litherland, Davis & Company, Liverpool, c.
1800, serial #1396 and 1715, both approximately 63 mm overall with
black Roman dials, pink gold balances, bell-shaped balance cocks, feet
inscribed Patent and three-wheel trains, the first signed P. Litherland &
Co., escapement with one-way slide, unusual white enameled dial with
minutes inside chapter ring, short minute hand and longer hour hand,
subsidiary 15-seconds dial and case stamped NL (Nicholas Lee), the
last signed Litherland & Co., unmarked case, movement with
maintaining power to the fusee, three-wheel train and two-way slide,
conventional white enameled dial with gilt hands and subsidiary 15-
seconds dial.
$2,500-3,500
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18kt Gold Savage Two-Pin Lever-Escapement Quarter-Repeating
Watch by Litherland, Davis & Company, Liverpool, serial #8480,
hallmarked 1815, rounded balance cock engraved with foliage and
engraved with foliage and Patent Lever on the table, curved foot
marked Detachd [sic], four-wheel train with round steel balance and
Berrolas’ Patent quarter repeating crown activated action, fusee, cream
enameled dial with Roman chapter, case stamped TH (Thomas Helsby)
with Chester hallmark dated 1815, overall dia. 50 mm.
$2,000-3,000
439.
22kt Gold Pair-Cased Rack Lever Watch by P. Litherland &
Company, Liverpool, Serial #840, hallmarked 1797, bell-shaped
balance cock, engraved with pierced table, curved foot inscribed
Patent, three-wheel train with flat steel balance, fusee, one way slide,
engraved gold dial with Roman chapters and gold arrow hands (minute
hand slightly truncated), 22kt gold case stamped RP and bearing the
London hallmark for 1797, overall dia. 54 mm.
$2,000-3,000
440.
18kt Gold Consular Case Massey Lever Watch by Litherland, Davis
& Company, Liverpool, serial #11696, hallmarked 1826, concave
shaped balance cock with engraved flowers and Patent on the table,
3/4 plate variant with recessed round gold balance, center seconds
train, Massey Type I escapement, fusee with maintaining power, engine-
turned gold dial with raised Roman chapters, blued-steel moon and
sweep second hands, gold case stamped TH& Co. (Thomas Helsby),
engraved cuvette and marked Wind Up and Set Hands and bears the
Chester hallmark for 1826, overall dia. 52 mm.
$1,500-2,500
441.
Silver Pair-Cased Rack Lever Watch by Litherland, Davis &
Company, Liverpool, serial #8425, hallmarked 1816, narrow balance
cock, engraved with foliage on the table, serpentine foot inscribed
Patent, three-wheel train with flat steel balance, the fusee with
maintaining power and two-way slides, white enameled dial with black
Roman chapters and gold spade hands, silver case stamped EJ
(Edward Jones) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1816, overall dia.
54 mm.
$500-700
442.
18kt Gold Massey Lever Watch by Litherland, Davis & Company,
Liverpool, serial #9,898, c. 1820, tapered balance cock engraved with
flowers and Patent on the table, serpentine foot inscribed Lever
Detached, three-wheel train with round steel balance, the fusee with
maintaining power, white enameled dial with black Roman chapters and
gilt spade hands, case stamped TH&JH (Thomas & John Helsby) and
bearing the Chester hallmark for 1822, overall dia. 52 mm.
$700-900
443.
18kt Gold Pair-Cased Massey Lever Watch by Litherland, Davis &
Company, Liverpool, serial #10237, hallmarked 1822, bell-shaped
balance cock engraved with flowers and marked Patent on the table,
curved foot marked Detached, four-wheel train with Massey Type III
lever, round gold balance, fusee with maintaining power, cream
enameled dial with black Roman chapters and gilt moon hands with 60-
seconds subsidiary dial, 18kt gold case stamped TH&Co (Thomas
Helsby & Co.) and bearing the Chester hallmark for 1822, overall dia. 54
mm.
Note: Outer case retains an original watch paper inscribed Litherland,
Davis & Co., 37 Bold St., Liverpool, and Chronometers, Watches and
Clocks.
$1,200-1,800
444.
18kt Gold Cased Massey Lever Watch by Litherland, Davis &
Company, Liverpool, serial #13,236, hallmarked 1829, half plate layout
with spring up dust cap, three separate cocks, round gold balance,
Massey Type III escapement and fusee with maintaining power, silver
engine-turned dial with painted black Roman chapters, blued-steel
moon hands, case marked TEHF (Thomas Ellison and Henry Fishwick),
Chester hallmark for 1829, overall dia. 44 mm.
$750-950
445.
18kt Gold Swiss Traveler’s Watch Signed Robert Roskell, Liverpool,
serial #68719, Geneva engraved bar movement with going barrel,
divided lift lever-escapement, bi-metallic balance, white enameled
double time dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, sunk seconds dial
and sweep center seconds, one pair of gilt filigree and one pair of
blued-steel diamond hands, Swiss case engraved with a stallion and
numbered 4643 and 18K, cuvette engraved Robt. Roskell, Liverpool,
Patent Lever Observation Timepiece, Double Time, 15 Jewels, overall
dia. 46 mm.
$800-1,200
446.
18kt Gold Lever Watch Signed Robert Roskell, Liverpool, serial
#50,087, 1837, probably French, Lepine caliber movement with going
barrel, divided lift lever-escapement, flat gold balance with Breguet-type
compensation curb, white enameled dial with Roman chapters, sunk
seconds dial, gold moon hands, case stamped CJ (Christopher Jones)
and bears the Chester hallmark for 1837, overall dia. 45 mm.
$500-700
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Silver Open Face Half-Quarter Repeating Watch by Robert Roskell,
Liverpool, serial #56,081, c. 1850 with later case by Richard Oliver,
London, 3/4 plate layout, engraved balance cock, bi-metallic balance
with cylinder escapement, four-wheel train, fusee with maintaining
power and push pendant half-quarter repeating action, white enameled
dial signed Robert Roskell, Liverpool, black Roman chapters and sunk
seconds dial, case marked RJO London 1897, overall dia. 48 mm.
Note: See lot 156 for the Richard Oliver casemaking lathe.
$450-650
448.
18kt Gold Open Face Single Roller Lever Watch by John Harrison,
Liverpool, serial #13,618, hallmarked 1842, 3/4 plate movement with
floral engraved balance cock, barrel bridge marked Detached Lever,
single roller escapement, four-wheel train with fusee, round steel
balance, engraved dial with raised Roman chapters and four-color gold
wreath around the perimeter, blued-steel spade hands, case marked HF
(Henry Fishwick), floral engraved case back, hinged cuvette marked Set
Hands and Wind Up, Chester Hallmark for 1842, overall dia. 42 mm.
$600-800
449.
18kt Gold Consular Case Rack Lever Alarm Watch by Robert
Roskell, Liverpool, serial #20997, hallmarked 1813, round balance
cock with floral engraving, long foot marked Patent 42, four-wheel train
with round steel balance, fusee, cream enameled dial with black Roman
chapters, subsidiary 60-seconds dial, gold spade hands, blued-steel
sweep alarm hand, case marked EJ (Edward Jones), inner engraved
cuvette and marked Warning and Wind Up and with Chester hallmark
1813, overall dia. 55 mm.
Note: “Patent 42” probably refers to a J.A. Berrolas alarm patent and
the 42nd watch made in this series by Roskell.
$2,000-3,000
450.
Silver Pocket Chronometer Consular Case Watch by Litherland,
Whiteside & Company, Liverpool, serial #4395, hallmarked 1807, bell-
shaped balance cock, engraved with flowers on the table, curved foot
engraved with foliage, bi-metallic compensated balance in the manner
of Pennington with blued-steel helical spring, the fusee with maintaining
power and Earnshaw spring detent escapement, white enameled dial
with black Roman chapters and gold spade hands with 60-seconds
subsidiary dial, silver case stamped EI (Edward Jones) and bearing the
Chester hallmark for 1807, overall dia. 53 mm.
Provenance: Formerly the property of General Sir John Gibbon, made
for his ancestor Edward Gibbon of Liverpool who was a whiskey
distiller.
Note: This case features a concealed catch for the front bezel to
eliminate accidental setting of the time.
$2,500-3,500
451.
Silver Consular Case Single Roller Lever Watch by Lewis Samuel,
Liverpool, serial #22012, hallmarked 1851, long narrow balance cock
with Patent engraved on the table and Detached on the foot, four-wheel
Liverpool runner train jeweled with Liverpool “windows,” bi-metallic
compensated balance, fusee with maintaining power, white enameled
dial with signed Lewis Samuel, Liverpool with Roman chapters and
subsidiary seconds, gilt spade hands, case marked WH and bears
Birmingham hallmark of 1851, overall dia. 51.
$200-300
452.
Silver Consular Case Watch by William Corkhill, West Derby, serial
#24,820, case hallmarked 1872, long narrow balance cock engraved
with foliage, four-wheel train, “Liverpool runner” jeweled with Liverpool
“windows,” bi-metallic balance, fusee with maintaining power, cream
enameled dial with black chapters, fleur-de-lis hands, subsidiary
seconds, case with gold nibs marked HG (Hugh Green) and bears the
Chester hallmark of 1872, overall dia. 53 mm.
$200-300
453.
Silver Hunting Case Single Roller Lever Watch by J. & P. Hendricks,
Liverpool, serial #1,818, hallmarked 1849, plain tapered balance cock,
curved foot, four-wheel train with round steel balance, early example of
single roller lever-escapement, fusee with maintaining power, now fitted
with “sugar tong” compensation curb and re-mounted barrel wheel set
up on barrel bridge, detachable ring rather than traditional dust cap,
cream enameled dial signed J. & P. Hendricks, Liverpool with black
Roman chapters and gold spade hands with 60-seconds subsidiary
dial, silver case stamped JW and bearing the London hallmark for 1849,
overall dia. 58 mm.
Note: “Sugar Tong” compensation curb possibly added for Robert
McClure’s arctic expedition in 1850.
$200-300
454.
Silver Case Single Roller Lever Watch by J. D. Taylor, Liverpool,
serial #3,520, c. 1840, 3/4 plate with separate cock for round gold
balance, barrel bridge marked Liverpool, center seconds train, fusee,
enameled cream dial with black Roman chapters, blued-steel spade
hands, center seconds, later re-case specially made for the movement
with London hallmark, 1891, overall dia. 45 mm.
$200-400
455.
Silver Consular Case Massey Lever Watch by George Esplin,
Wigan, serial #542, hallmarked 1863, full plate movement with sunk
balance, marked Improved Detached Lever by George Esplin, Wigan,
balance and barrel cock profusely engraved, four-wheel train, round
steel balance, fusee with maintaining power, enameled dial with Roman
chapters, blued-steel hands, case stamped RO (R. Over), Chester
hallmark for 1863, overall dia. 49 mm.
$250-350
456.
Silver Consular Case Single Roller Watch by Richard Hornby,
Liverpool, serial #5138, hallmarked 1818, plain balance cock with
regulator index on table, four-wheel train, round steel balance, fusee
with maintaining power, cream dial with Roman chapters, gilt hands,
case with gold nibs and marked EJ (Edward Jones) and bears the
Chester hallmark for 1818, overall dia. 56 mm.
$250-350
457.
Two Lancashire Watch Company Watches, London and Prescott, the
London example, a warranted gold-filled hunting case, stem wound,
3/4 plate going barrel layout movement, serial #188,165, white
enameled dial with Roman chapters (lacking center seconds hand,
traces of engine-turning on case), c. 1910, the silver Prescott example,
a full plate movement with going barrel, serial #125,814, barrel bridge
marked Reversing Pinion, white enameled dial with gilt spade hands
and signed Lancashire Watch Company, Ltd, Prescott, open face case
marked TPH.
$100-125
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9kt Gold Watch by Thos. Russell & Son and a Gilt-metal Hunter
Case by Als. Elniger, Liverpool, and Switzerland, the Thomas Russell
example, stem wound 3/4 plate movement probably by the Lancashire
Watch Company, serial #301,360, 7-jewel English lever, bi-metallic
balance with overcoil hairspring, white enameled dial signed by maker,
the other, a Swiss fake with 3/4 plate going barrel movement with
poising screws on balance, white enameled dial with black chapters, gilt
minute hand, gilt-metal engine-turned hunting case with cast foliate
band.
$250-350
459.
Six Liverpool Watch Movements by Various Makers, including one
signed Peter Litherland & Co. serial #581, engraved balance cock with
foot marked Patent, rack lever with three-wheel train, non-adjustable
slide, flat steel balance and fusee, c. 1790; another marked Litherland,
no serial number, rack lever with four-wheel train and two-way slides,
regulator on the balance cock, flat steel balance, fusee with maintaining
power and original dial, c. 1795; two by John Monkas, one with half
plate layout; another rack lever with three-wheel train by Joseph
Johnson, and a verge movement by J. Roskell and a tin movement
holder.
$300-400
460.
Three Silver Open Face Lever Watches by Dawson & Co., Harris &
Co., and Roskells, Liverpool, late 19th century, two in consular cases,
the Roskells with open face.
$250-350
461.
Two Silver Lever Watches by Ball and Blundell, Liverpool, mid-19th
century, the Blundell case with gold nibs.
$150-250
462.
Silver Consular Case Single Roller Watch by Isaac Steane, 42
Whitechapel, Liverpool, serial #23,047, hallmarked 1876, long narrow
floral engraved balance cock, curved foot, four-wheel “Liverpool runner”
train jeweled with Liverpool “window,” bi-metallic compensated balance,
fusee maintaining power, white enameled dial signed Isaac Steane,
Liverpool, black Roman chapters, sunk subsidiary seconds dial, case
marked EWI and Birmingham hallmark 1876, overall dia. 51 mm.
$300-400
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463.
Silver Consular Case Single Roller Watch by John Stubley,
Liverpool, serial #1,539 hallmarked 1839, concave sided balance cock
engraved with flowers, curved foot marked Patent, four-wheel train,
round steel balance, fusee with maintaining power and jeweled with
Liverpool “windows,” with enameled cream dial with Roman chapters,
gilt hands, case marked RB and bears the Chester hallmark for 1839,
overall dia. 52 mm.
$200-250
464.
Three Mid-19th Century Lever Watches by Bellion, Doke, and
Owens, Liverpool, the Doke example a Massey lever, the other two with
single roller movements.
$200-250
465.
Two Silver Lever Watches by Penlington and Jackson, Liverpool,
both in consular cases with gold nibs, the Penlington with half plate
movement and spring up dust cap, the Jackson with dust ring and
traditional movement layout in an engine-turned case.
$200-250
466.
Three Silver Cased Watches by Taylor, Leders, and Moss, Liverpool,
mid-19th century, the Moss example with half plate movement with
spring-up dust cap, the others typical full plate standard layout
movements.
$250-350
467.
Silver Pair-Cased Verge Watch by J. Johnstone, Liverpool, serial
#4741, hallmarked 1797, pierced and engraved balance cock,
engraved grotesque mask on foot, fusee, verge escapement, white
enameled dial with black Roman chapters, gilt spade hands and case
marked VR (Vale & Rotherham), watch paper of James Heggie,
Bonnygate, Cupar, inside case, overall dia. 55 mm.
$200-250
468.
Two Silver Pair-Cased Verge Watches, John Moncas and Johnson,
Liverpool, serial #485 and #2,585, the Moncas with pierced engraved
balance cock and fusee, case with Chester hallmark for 1815 and
marked EM (Edward Maddock), the Johnson with pierced and engraved
balance cock and Liverpool composite regulator, both with white
enameled dials, one with Roman chapters the other, Arabic, case with
Birmingham, marked HH & IM, and the Birmingham hallmark for 1804.
$200-250

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469.
Alarm and Calendar Pocket Watch by Becet and Neoclassical
Watch Hutch, Paris, silvered brass case with enameled dial, Arabic
numerals and signed Becet a Paris, central alarm dial and outer
calendar numerals, hinged fusee movement with pierced balance cock
and back plate engraved Becet Paris, No. 900, housed in a gilt and
ebonized watch hutch with a ram surmounting the dial opening, and
classical figure on the pediment, ht. 15 in.
$800-1,200
471
474
470.
Early Brass-cased Pocket Watch by Watson, the enameled dial with
Arabic numerals, gilt hands and winding hole, skeletonized fusee
movement engraved Watson in a banner held by a phoenix, steel
balance, crown wheel and verge escapement, and index regulator.
$100-150
471.
Silver Pair Case Verge Watch by John Wontner & Son, Minories,
London, hallmarked 1799, pierced balance cock with classical urn and
flowers, engraved plates signed Wontner & Son, Minories, London, No.
4179, white enameled dial with Roman chapters, seconds and gilt
hands, silver case with London hallmark, outer band and pendant cast
with raised seashells and engine-turned back, overall dia. 54 mm.
$250-450
472.
Silver Open Face Pocket Watch by M.J. Tobias, Liverpool, with
enameled Roman numeral dial, cuvette marked Cylinder Escapement
Four Holes Jeweled, M.J. Tobias, Liverpool, gilt bar-type 45 mm
movement, engraved scene on back cover.
$100-150
473.
Silver Pair-Cased Watch by Bullingford, London, no. 5486, the case
with Birmingham assay marks c. 1827, key-wind, key-set movement
with verge escapement, flat steel balance, chain fusee, pierced balance
cock, and signed Bullingford, London 5486.
$200-400

474.
Large Coin Silver Open Face Calendar Watch, Switzerland, c. 1900,
the complex dial with Arabic chapters, subsidiary dials for seconds, day,
month, day-of-the month, and moon’s age, gilt pierced hands, stem
wind/set and bow, overall dia. 68 mm.
$300-500
475.
Gold Minute Repeating Calendar and Chronograph Pocket Watch,
Switzerland, yellow gold hunter case with cuvette marked No. 15698
Repetition a Minutes Chronographe Quantiemes and Volta, white
enameled double sunk dial with Arabic chapters, day of the month at
the top, seconds and moon’s age dial and the bottom, recessed Month
and Day dials, gilt pierced hands and blued-steel center seconds, push
minute repeat and chronograph, movement unmarked by maker but
with Swiss mark and bearing serial 13244, overall dia. approximately 60
mm.
$3,000-5,000
476
475
476.
Gold Open Face Pocket Watch by Savoye & Son, No. 1995, the
engine-turned dial with raised Roman numerals and depicting the White
House, chased decoration around the perimeter of the case and
engine-turned back with vacant cartouche, elaborately decorated
cuvette engraved Savoye & Son, Detached Lever Full Jeweled, key-
wind, key-set 42 mm gilt movement engraved Savoye & Son, No. 1995.
$400-600
477.
Silver Pair-Cased Pocket Watch by Jn. Rentnow, London, No.
13849, enameled dial with Arabic numerals, bull’s-eye crystal, 40 mm
engraved fusee movement with pierced balance cock and signed Jn.
Rentnow, London, 13849.
$300-500
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478.
Coin Silver Open Face Pocket Watch, unmarked, probably England,
with enameled Roman numeral dial with recessed seconds and gilt
hands, key-wind key-set 38 mm gilt plate movement marked 10941,
two-arm steel balance with timing screws and latched dust cover.
$150-200
479.
Gold-filled Hunting Case Pocket Watch by Jos. Johnson, Liverpool,
No. 23042, enameled dial with Roman numerals and gilt hands, key-
wind, key-set 38 mm fusee movement with engraved barrel plate and
balance wheel bridge, three-arm brass balance, latched dust cover with
exposed ratchet, movement marked Jos. Johnson, Liverpoole, 23042.
$100-150
480.
18kt Gold Hunting Case Pocket Watch by James Courvoisier,
Geneva, serial #65795, engine-turned gold case with cuvette signed by
the maker and numbered, enameled dial with recessed seconds,
Roman numerals and maker’s signature, Breguet-type hands, 17 ligne
bar-type movement signed by the maker with serial number.
$250-450
481.
Hamilton Model 992, 21-jewel Pocket Watch, Hamilton Watch
Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, serial #2367747, 16 size open face
14kt gold-filled RR Model No. 2 case with crown and bow with cross
bar, double-sunk enameled dial with Arabic numerals and marked
Hamilton, lever-set movement with gold center wheel, jewel settings
and marked Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, PA, 21 Jewels, 992
and serial number.
$300-500
482.
Waltham Canadian Railway Time Service 17-jewel Pocket Watch,
Waltham, Massachusetts, serial #15112563, gold-filled open face case,
double-sunk “Montgomery” dial with Arabic numerals, 12-24 hour dial in
the center, outer minutes and recessed seconds, 18 size lever-set
movement marked Made for Canadian Railway time Service, Waltham,
Mass. 17 Jewels and 15112563.
$150-250
483.
Hamilton Model 950, 23-jewel 14kt Gold Pocket Watch, Hamilton
Watch Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, serial #1020979, 16 size
open face 14kt gold Keystone case, enameled double-sunk dial with
Arabic numerals and marked Hamilton, crown-set movement marked
Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, PA, 23-Jewel, 950 and 1020979.
$250-450
484.
Coin Silver Hunting Case Pocket Watch by the National Watch
Company, Elgin, Illinois, with enameled Roman numeral dial, 18 size
key-wind, key-set movement marked G.M. Wheeler, No. 21192, Elgin
Ills.
$150-200
485.
Silveroid Open Face Pocket Watch by the Home Watch Company,
Boston, Massachusetts, No. 760854, enameled dial with Roman
numerals, key-wind, key-set 18 size 3/4 plate movement with
decorated balance bridge, steel balance wheel and marked Home
Watch Co., Boston, Mass. 760854.
$200-300
486.
American Waltham “P.S. Bartlett” Coin Silver Hunting Case Pocket
Watch, American Waltham Watch Company, No. 1574, with unmarked
enamel dial with Roman numerals, 18 size movement marked P.S.
Bartlett, Waltham, Mass. No. 1574.
$200-400
487.
Waltham “Riverside” 23-jewel 14kt Gold Pocket Watch, open face
case marked Waltham 14K Colonial with monogram on back, single
sunk enameled dial with Arabic numerals and marked Waltham and
Colonial, 12 size movement marked A.W.W.Co., Waltham Mass.
Riverside Maximus and serial 6093895.
$250-450
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487A.
Coin Silver Open Face Watch by American Waltham Watch
Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 18 size movement with engine-
turned back and rim, cuvette engraved Samson Hosking, Londonderry,
N.S., movement marked Favorite Waltham, Mass. and serial 2033089.
$250-350
488.
Neoclassical Mahogany Inlaid Watch Hutch, probably England, c.
1830, in an architectural form with molded, carved and inlaid dome top
supported by four freestanding columns with barber pole inlay and
flanking the central aperture for the silver-cased, enameled dial with
Roman numerals, unmarked fusee watch with Roman numerals, all on a
four-step inlaid base, ht. 11 1/2 in.
$800-1,200
489.
Working Cut-Away Automobile Model by Werner Degener,
Germany, c. 1960, the model with metal frame, cut-away Chevrolet 6-
cylinder motor, standard transmission, geared steering, parking brake
and rear axel assembly with a truck grill marked HOHM all mounted on
a wooden base with maker’s plate, controls and Plexiglas cover, lg. of
model, 42 in.
$2,500-3,500
490.
Chrome Plated Steel “Flying Lady” Rolls-Royce Hood Ornament,
20th century, of typical form, the words ROLLS-ROYCE at the figure’s
feet, REG U.S. PAT. OFF. inscribed around the base, ht. 6 1/2 in.
$300-400
491.
New England Industrial and Education Exposition Poster, Boston,
1911, the rolled poster laid on linen and titled Hear Ye! and depicting a
town crier, advertises the October 2-28, 1911 exposition at the
Mechanics Building, Boston, ht. 81, wd. 42 1/2 in.
$600-800
492.
James Purdey & Sons Ammunition Carrying Case, London, the oak,
leather covered, brass bound case with vacant central brass boss,
embossed initials H.A.F. within a rectangular inset, carrying handle and
locking clasp, opening to reveal the 6 x 8 in. printed paper label on the
underside of the lid stating James Purdey & Sons, Gun & Rifle
Manufacturers, 314 1/2 Oxford Street, Near Hanover Square, London,
ht. 11 1/4 x lg. 15 1/4 x dp. 5 1/4 in.
$400-600
493.
Mahogany Frame View Camera by Gundlach, with rack focus,
leather bellows, 8x10 ground glass mounted on the rear standard and a
Gundlach Anastigmat F: 6.3 series IV lens and shutter together with an
associated tripod for display purposes, ht. of camera 14 1/2, lg. 17 in.
$150-250
494.
Bill of Lading and Other Material Related to the Middlesex Canal,
bill of lading dated 1805, including the bill of lading for the canal boat
Charlestown Packet on the 29th day of April 1805 shipping “pinewood,”
a small pamphlet titled Regulations Relative to the Navigation of the
Middlesex Canal and dated 1830 and another paperback publication
titled An excursion on The Middlesex Canal in 1817, dated 1905
reprinted from the publications of the Colonial Society of
Massachusetts, Vol. II.
$200-400
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495.
Patent Model of a Carriage Steering Mechanism, D. Wilcox
Manufacturing Company, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a scale model
of the front steering apparatus of a horse-drawn carriage with upper
moveable section and leaf springs and extensions for horse harnesses,
lower stationary section marked with manufacturer’s name, all on a
pedestal base, lg. 8 in.
$200-300
499.
Group of Papers Relating to the Hay and Bancroft Families of
Reading, Massachusetts, including a letter from John M. Bancroft,
dated 1908, on Hammond Typewriter Co. headed paper, advertisement
for a universal coupling for steam vessels patd. by Samuel L. Hay in
1858, letters and illustrations discussing Bancroft ancestry, copies of
surveyor’s drawings of Reading, and a group of Bancroft’s share
certificates in companies including Woodbury Patent Planing Machine
Co.
$100-200

496.
Range Finder by Bausch & Lomb, Model of 1916, No. 1482, the 44
in. leatherbound green painted tube with maker’s plaque, viewing
eyepiece, vernier scale and yard scale viewing port, mirror optics at
each end and leather cushions, mirrored optics at each end together
with the original fitted, brass bound leather carrying case, lg. of range
finder 48 in.
$500-700

497.
Working Model of a Two Cylinder Horizontal Steam Engine, with
steel mounting bed, 4 in. dia. six-spoked brass flywheel, two horizontal
pistons, brass and steel fittings and valves, 9 3/4 in.
$200-400

498.
Four Edison-Related Publications, Edison Works Monthly employees’
newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1912, with articles on construction
of Edison phonographs and educational uses for Edison perforated film;
The Ironclad Exide Battery for Storage Battery Locomotives Bulletin No.
146 of the Electric Storage Battery Co., May 1914; National Education
Association Joint-Committee Series Monograph III The Edison Alkaline
Storage Battery, 1919, with colored frontispiece, line drawings,
photographic reproductions, graphs, and diagrams, stamped Walter H.
Bancroft; W.H. Meadowcroft Edison and his Storage Battery, 1928.
$200-300

496
500 shown on lot 357
500.
Silver Horizontal Dial by Butterfield, Paris, c. 1700, the finely
engraved eight-sided dial plate with four chapter rings designed for 43,
48, 52, and 54 degrees latitude, signed in a semi-circular boss
Butterfield a Paris, glazed opening for compass with four quadrants,
fanciful bird gnomon adjustable for latitudes 40-60 degrees, the
underside engraved with twenty cities and respective latitudes and
circular flourish decoration, lg. 2 5/8 in.
$2,000-4,000
501.
Chinese Fruitwood Geomancer’s Dial and Pocket Sundial, the
compass dial with needle at the center with concentric rings of Chinese
characters in black and red ink, 5 1/2 in. dia., the folding pocket sundial
with hinged lid and Chinese characters on all surfaces, string gnomon
and central compass, ht. open 3 1/2 in.
$200-400
502.
Two Vertical Sundials, the brass example for latitude 41 degrees, 30
minutes, with hinged sights, silvered month scale with sliding indicator,
applied plates marked Hours Before Noon and Hours After Noon and a
stamped Equation of Time Chart on the reverse, 6 3/4 by 4 3/8 in., the
other in aluminum stamped G.E.R. and Lat. 41, with calendar and hour
scales in Arabic numerals, 5 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.
$150-250

503.
Pair of 12-inch Regency Library Globes by Newton, the terrestrial
with circular cartouche (part of text missing) Newton’s New and
Improved Terrestrial Globe, On Which the Most Recent Discoveries Are
Laid Down from the Accurate Observations of Capt. Cook, Vancouver....
& Other Modern Navigators. I. & W. Newton, 97 Chancery Lane,
London, 1810, made up of twelve engraved gores on plaster sphere,
with continents lightly shaded, countries outlined in faded green, coasts
hatched and colored, North America divided into territories and states,
Massachusetts Bay colony marked, New England shown as a single
region, Louisiana as a territory, the Pacific Coast labeled “New Albion”
and California as a peninsula, Indian Villages and Snake Indians labeled
in the West and North West, North West Africa labeled Barbary and
Zahara or Great Desert, East Africa as Nubia, tracts of Central Asia
labeled Mongul’s Tartary and Chinese Tartary, Australia as New Holland,
and Tazmania as Diemen’s Land, oceans marked with the tracks of
Cook and other explorers, Sandwich Isles noted as the place “where
the celebrated Captain Cook lost his life,” Longitude from London
marked, Equinoctial calibrated twice 0-180 degrees, Ecliptic by days of
the month and Zodiacal sigils, applied analemma, the Meridian passing
through Greenwich; the celestial with cartouche bordered by clouds and
putti A New Celestial Globe, On which the Stars are Carefully Laid
Down from the Accurate Observations of Mr. Flamstead & Dr. Hadley by
Jn. Newton, 1801, made up of twelve engraved and lightly tinted gores
laid to the celestial poles of plaster sphere, depicting the constellations
as mythical figures, beasts and instruments of science, labeled in Latin,
stars shown to the seventh magnitude, the Equinoctial calibrated in
degrees 0-360, the Ecliptic in days of the month and Zodiacal sigils,
tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and Arctic and Antarctic circles; both
with brass polar rings, the celestial with northern ring only (the southern
blank) calibrated I-XII-I twice, the celestial with both rings calibrated in
this way, paper horizon rings with red-painted rims, illustrating the
compass points and Gregorian and Zodiacal calendars, celestial ring
with credit Published 1st July 1810 by I. & W. Newton, Chancery Lane,
London, on matching baluster-turned mahogany tripod stands with slim
tapering legs on acorn feet supporting compasses with 4 1/2 in. dia.
engraved paper cards, ht. 34 3/4 in., (paper darkened, losses, flaking
and re-tint, cracks on horizon rings, meridian rings re-lacquered,
celestial stand refinished and compass glass cracked).
$5,000-7,000

504.
12-inch Terrestrial Table Globe by Joslin, Boston, twelve printed
paper gores with polar callottes and brass pointer, analemma and
maker’s cartouche in the North Pacific Ocean, the latter stating Joslin’s
Terrestrial Globe containing the Late Discoveries and Geographical
Improvements, also the tracks of the most celebrated circumnavigators
and Geographical Improvements, Manufactured by Gilman Joslin,
Boston, turned hardwood horizon circle with printed indications for
calendar and signs of the zodiac and full brass meridian, all on a three-
legged iron stand, ht. approximately 20 in.
$1,500-2,500

505.
Philip’s 9-inch Terrestrial Globe on Stand, London, twelve printed
paper gores, maker’s cartouche, semi-circular brass meridian ring, all on
a turned hardwood stand, ht. 16 in.
$200-400

504 with detail view

 505

506.
16-inch Terrestrial Table Globe by Gilman Joslin, Boston,
Massachusetts, twelve printed paper gores laid on metal sphere,
countries depicted in various colors and the oceans in beige, Analemma
Showing the Declination of the Sun placed in the Pacific Ocean, full
calibrated brass meridian ring and adjustment screw, bras hour circles
at the poles, walnut horizon band marked Manufactured by Gilman
Joslin Corrected to Date and Improved Globe, Boston and signs of the
zodiac, calendar and equation of time table all in green, salmon, and
brown enclosed in a Greek key border, all on a three-legged cast
bronze base, ht. 24 in.
$800-1,200

507.
Parks and Hadley Patent Orrery, 3 in. terrestrial globe with twelve
gores, brass pointer, cartouche in the lower portion of the Indian Ocean
506 with detail view
reading Terrestrial Globe Carefully Compiled from the Best Authorities,
George Philip & Son, Ltd., London. Made in Germany, on a geared
stand revolving around a 9 1/2 in. dia. brass calendar ring with geared
perimeter, raised lettering for the months, seasons, compass points and
the inscription Parkes and Hadley’s Patent Orrery, all on a cast brass
base, ht. 9 in.
$800-1,200

508.
Rand McNally 8-inch Terrestrial Globe, twelve printed gores on card
and plaster sphere, maker’s cartouche, analemma for equation of time
calculations, brass hour circles at the poles and tri-foot cast iron stand
with claw-and-ball feet, ht. 15 in.
$100-200
509.
Magnetic Global Air Race by Replogle Globes, Inc., Chicago, Illinois,
the game includes a metal 8 in. world globe, magnetized airplanes,
gasoline drums, play money, good and bad luck chance cards,
instruction booklet and original box, ht. of globe 12 1/2 in.
$100-200
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510.
S.S. Nerissa Ship Builder’s Model by Hugh MacMillan, 15 Cathcart
Street, Greenock, the painted wooden model of the passenger and
cargo steamer S.S. Nerissa mounted on a walnut pedestal with
descriptive plaque mounted at the bow stating S.S. Nerissa Dimens
350’-0” BP x 54’-0” x 33’-0” MLD. Gross tonnage 5585 tons Built by
William Hamilton & Co. Ltd. Port Glasgow for Messrs C.T. Bowring &
Co. Liverpool, all enclosed in a glass cabinet on a black-painted stand,
ht. 66 x wd. 84 x dp. 24 in.

Note: The Nerissa was built in 1926 and served various cargo and
passenger routes until WWII when she was sunk off the coast of Ireland
by a German submarine on 30th April 1941. The Nerissa sank within
four minutes and lost all but 84 of her 290 passengers and crew.
$600-800

511.
Brass and Copper Ship Binnacle Compass by A. Leitz Company,
San Francisco, California, the standing compass with polished copper
helmet top, glazed opening to the gimbaled liquid compass calibrated in
the usual manner and marked A. Leitz Co. San Francisco, sliding rear
viewing port, the heavy cast bronze base with applied maker’s plaque
for the “Standard Binnacle” and serial #23098, adjustable iron balls for
magnetic compensation, sliding convex door and pedestal base, ht. 54
in.
$1,500-2,500

512.
Ship’s Wheelhouse Telegraph, Brelco, 55 Van Dam Street, New York,
the 11 in. brass head with Plexiglas dial marked with maker’s name and
speed indications, operator’s handle and floor-mounted brass pedestal,
ht. 44 1/2 in.
$300-500
511
 513.
Cast Brass Lobster Boat Wheel, the cast brass wheel with six spokes
and wooden handles mounted on a wooden display pedestal,
maximum dia. 15 3/4 in.
$200-400

514.
Bronze Ship’s Bell Marked Prins Willem V, 11 1/2 in. dia. bell with
cast inscription, (lacking a clapper), ht. 12 in.

Note: The Prins Willem collided with a towed barge on Lake Michigan
on October 14, 1954.
$250-350

515.
Waltham Deck Watch and Mahogany Carrying Case, Waltham,
Massachusetts, the 2 in. dial with Arabic numerals and marked
Waltham, within a brass bezel in gimbals, blued-steel hands and stem-
wind movement marked P.S. Bartlett, Waltham, Mass., 17-Jewels,
12505783, all in two fitted carrying cases, the outer with padded felt
lining and leather handle.
$800-1,200

516.
Two-Day Marine Chronometer by Bliss & Creighton, New York, No.
1897, c. 1850, the three-tier brass bound mahogany box with applied
boss stating in part A.L. Willings & Co... Chronometer Specialists,
Middlesbrough., recessed side carrying handles, lacquered brass
gimbals and bowl, 3 3/4 in. dia. silvered brass dial signed Bliss &
512 Creighton, New York, No. 1897, 56-hour up-down indicator, seconds
dial and marked Patent, blued-steel hands, chain fusee split plate
movement with spring detent escapement, split balance with four
adjustment screws and two brass weights, helical hairspring and back
of dial plate stamped 1897, all with an outer padded felt mahogany box
with leather carrying handle, inner box ht. 7 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.

Note: Bliss & Creighton’s patent is discussed in Antiquarian Horological

Journal, Autumn, 1977.
$1,000-1,500

517.
12-inch Walnut Octant by Gilbert & Company, London, with brass
index arm engraved Gilbert & Co. London and bone vernier engraved 0-
20, bone scale calibrated 0-95 degrees, unmarked name plate, sun
screens, horizon mirror and peep sight and turned brass feet.
$500-700

518.
7 1/2-inch Ebony Octant by J. Sewill, Liverpool, the instrument with
bone maker’s plaque marked J. Sewill, 61 South Castle Street,
515
Liverpool, inlaid scale calibrated 0-135 with vernier and microscope on
a 3 1/4 in. limb, sun and horizon shades, sighting scope attachments
and keystone-shaped walnut carrying case.
$600-800

519.
12-inch Ebony Octant by Gedney King & Son, Boston,
Massachusetts, the painted oak keystone case with 5 x 3 in. printed
label stating Gedney King & Son, Nautical Instrument Makers, No. 3
Broad Street, Boston holding the instrument with ribbed brass index
arm, bone scale vernier with thumbscrew adjustment and locking, inset
bone scale calibrated 0-95 degrees, vacant central inset plaque, 3 in.
brass tube sighting scope, horizon and index mirrors, sun shades,
wooden handle and three brass feet.
$500-700

516
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520.
Brass Bridge Frame Sextant by Troughton, London, No. 1302, the
lacquered brass frame and wooden handle with 9 in. limb, inlaid silver
scale calibrated 0-145 and silver vernier with magnifier on 3 in.
adjustable arm, telescope attachment with additional eyepieces and
horizon and sun shades in a fitted mahogany box with recessed
carrying handles, brass plate inscribed R. Birch, R.N. and National
Physical Laboratory inspection card dated 14th of January, 1926, inside
the lid.
$400-600

521.
Brass and Ivory Sextant by D. Eggert & Son, New York, with 8 in.
limb with vernier and thumbscrew adjustment, inset bone scale and
marked U.S. Navy 13126, sun shades, telescope attachments, wooden
handle and walnut keystone box with printed paper label marked
Nautical Instrument, D. Eggert & Son, 239 Pearl Street, New York.
$400-600
518

522.
Acme Course Corrector, Sea Emergency Devices Co., New York, 10
in. dia. brass finished aluminum disc with calibrated rings, the outer
fixed ring representing the true compass, moveable inner ring
representing the magnetic compass and the center graduated 0-360
degrees representing the ship’s compass and a rotating indicator arm in
the original box with operating instructions.
$200-400

523.
Brass 8-inch Radius Sextant by A. Harlimann, Paris, dated 1957, flat
bar frame, inset silver scale with the radius marked A. Harlimann a
Paris, 1957 and G. Lunti a Marseille and Marcechal Floriano, the index
arm with micrometer thumbscrew adjustment and magnifier, sun
shades, and horizon mirror and mahogany handle, all on brass rod feet.
$150-300

520
521
524.
Anodized Box Sextant by Potter, London, with silver scale, vernier
adjusted by a knurled knob and magnifier, above the scale marked with
maker’s name Potter, (illegible), London, removable knurled knob used
as a tool to adjust the horizon mirror, filters and bayonet mount cover
stamped 451, dia. cased 3 1/8, ht. 1 5/8 in.
$200-400
525.
6-inch Sextant by Liliput, NR354894, anodized three circle pattern
frame with wooden handle, the limb marked Liliput, inlaid silver scale
calibrated 0-160 degrees, silver vernier scale with thumbscrew
adjustment and magnifier on 3 in. limb, telescope attachments,
eyepieces and horizon shades all in the original walnut box with carrying
handle.
$250-450
526.
9-inch Radius Ebony Vernier Sextant by D. McGregor, Greenock,
with bone scale divided 0-105, brass index arm with vernier,
thumbscrew lock and fine adjustment, mirror and colored filters, 3 3/8
in. brass tube monocular, bone maker’s plaque marked in block
lettering D. McGregor. Greenock and in script J. McKenzie Greenock,
turned wooden handle.
$350-550
527.
Musser Copernican Planetarium, Scientific Space Industries, c. 1960,
the model 500 planetarium in heavy plastic casing features motorized
planetary motions of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
through the calendar year with two additional Mylar overlays for tracking
major constellations and meteor streams, ht. 25, wd. 21 in.
Note: According to internet sources, these teaching tools were
designed by Clair O. Musser and were only available for purchase at the
1962 World’s Fair.
$1,500-2,500
528
528.
3-inch Library Refracting Telescope by Buff & Buff, Boston,
Massachusetts, engraved on viewing end Utschneider und fraunhofer in
Munchen, 45 in. brass capped mahogany tube with attached 15 in.
sighting scope, rack focus and elevation strut, two additional ocular
lenses, both marked Day Power, one 10 3/4 the other 7 in. and an
additional eyepiece marked Astronomical Power, brass base with
folding cabriole legs, walnut carrying case with fitted interior and 8 x 7
1/4 in. printed label with instructions and maker’s name inside the lid,
ht. with scope level, 28 1/2, cased 50 x 13 x 6 1/2 in.
Provenance: Frances Lee Higginson.
$800-1,200
529.
Two Three-Draw London Spy Glasses, by Dollond and Ottway &
Company, the first signed on ocular draw Dollond, London, 2 in.
objective, brass and leather covered tube with shade, leather carrying
case, extended lg. 28 1/2 in., the second a brass and leather-covered
tube inscribed on the ocular draw W. Ottway & Co. Ltd., Ealing, 1912
No. 1618, 2 1/4 in. objective, shade and eyepiece cover, extended lg.
26 in.
$175-275
530.
1 1/4-inch Single-Draw Telescope, with 18 in. leather and cord-
wrapped barrel and unmarked brass single-draw tube.
$250-450
531.
2-inch Octagonal Merchant’s Telescope, probably London, c. 1870,
with tapered mahogany 48 in. barrel, ocular and objective lenses with
brass sliding covers and turned brass fittings.
$400-600
532.
3-inch Refracting Telescope by Benjamin Pike & Sons, 318
Broadway, New York, signed Benjamin Pike et Sons Opticians, 318
Broadway-New York on the ocular plate, 42 in. nickel tube, rack and
pinion focusing with knurled thumbscrew, threaded eyepiece and
wooden tripod with nickel collar mount and carrying case.
$1,500-2,500
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Clocks, Lots 533-682

533.
French Ormolu Mantel Clock Depicting Napoleon Bonaparte, Paris, last quarter 19th century, the gilt-bronze case with
Napoleon as artillery officer manning a canon with silvered clock dial recessed behind the spoked wheel of the carriage on a
rocky outcrop, the lower section with applied patriotic scenes, military iconography, feet and central drop inscribed with
Napoleonic battles, Toulon, Mantour and Lodi, eight-day brass time and strike movement faintly inscribed on backplate, T.C.
Cugghe(?)... et cie, Paris, count-wheel strike and pendulum, ht. 17 1/2 in.
$2,500-4,500
 534
534.
Thirty-Day Japanned Longcase Clock by John Ellicott, London, c.
1770, the oak and pine case with pagoda top, engaged columns
flanking the glazed door, tombstone-shaped waist door and two stage
base on pad feet, 13 in. brass dial, applied silvered chapter ring with
Roman numerals, name boss signed Jn. Ellicott, London, seconds dial
in the arch, thirty-day brass time and strike movement with dead-beat
escapement and contrate wheel transfer of power to the arch for
seconds, rack and snail strike, two lead weights, flat brass pendulum
rod and brass-faced bob, ht. 92 in.
Note: Harvard University ordered a precision regulator from Ellicott in
1765 and used it for an eclipse expedition to Islesboro, Maine, in 1780.
That clock remains in the collections of Historical and Scientific
Instruments at Harvard.
$12,000-18,000
535
535.
Mahogany Longcase Clock by Nathaniel Brown, Manchester,
England, c. 1790, the scroll-top case with cast brass rosettes, gilded
decoration on the tympanum with central sunburst and flanking rooster
and owl, fluted columns with Corinthian capitals flanking the composite
brass and painted dial with moon’s age in the arch and signed
Nathaniel Brown, Manchester, highly figured serpentine-top waist door
flanked by stop-fluted quarter columns and Corinthian capitals, all on
ogee feet, eight-day time and rack and snail strike movement with two
tin-cased weights and pendulum, ht. 90 in.
$3,000-5,000
 536
536.
Painted Case Morbier Clock by A. Rabit, Airvault, c. 1845, floral,
leafage, line and smoke-grain decorated case with oval dial opening, 8
in. dia. painted enameled dial with Roman numerals and marked A.
Rabit Airvault, pressed brass and paint decorated dial surround,
serpentine-shaped waist section with glazed opening revealing the
pressed brass pendulum bob and eight-day time, strike and “prayer
repeat” movement with recoil escapement and two iron weights, ht. 91
in.
$800-1,200
537
537.
Burl Walnut Longcase Clock with Automata by Jonathan Marsh,
Leiden, Netherlands, the caddy top with carved figures of heralding
angels and Atlas, blind fretwork backed with fabric on the caddy and
tympanum, flat pilasters flank the glazed hood door over the composite
brass and painted dial with Roman numerals signed Jona. Marsh,
Leiden, matted center with ringed winding holes, pierced steel hands
and lower section with scarlet draperies drawn to view the painted river
scene with windmill and fisherman automata, waist door with inlaid
flower and buttressed base with similar inlays, all on claw-and-ball feet,
eight-day time and “Dutch striking” movement with two hammers,
windmill moving during striking sequence and fisherman catching a fish
powered by two brass-cased weights regulated by a pendulum, ht. 113
in.
Note: Deaccessioned from the National Watch and Clock Museum,
Columbia, Pennsylvania, to benefit the Museum Acquisitions Fund.
$6,000-9,000
 538
538.
Mahogany Sixty-Day Duration Longcase Clock by William
Wilkinson, No. 15, c. 1790, the scroll-top case with brass rosettes,
fluted columns flanking the arched hood door, highly figured waist door
with full fluted columns at the sides, the base with canted corners and
molded central panel, all on an ogee base, 15 in. brass composite dial
with Roman numerals, cast spandrels, rolling moon in the arch and
inscribed with poetry and Wm. Wilkinson, No. 15, arched skeletonized
sixty-day timepiece movement with subsidiary plate at the back
supporting two winding drums, steel Brocot-type pallets, backboard
mounted pendulum cock, two brass-cased weights, wooden pendulum
rod and cylindrical brass bob, ht. 93 in.
$6,000-9,000
539
539.
Walnut Veneered Longcase Clock by Thomas Watts, St. Edmunds,
Bury, 20th century, the Queen Anne style case with sarcophagus top
and three brass finials, glazed dial opening, rectangular waist door with
bull’s-eye lenticle, all on a molded base, 10 1/2 in. brass composite dial,
silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals, matted center, ringed
winding holes, maker’s boss signed Thomas Watts, St. Edmunds Bury,
cast brass spandrels, blued-steel hands and eight-day time and rack
strike movement with pendulum and two cast iron weights, ht. 96 in.
$2,000-4,000
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540.
Gilt-brass Wag-on-the-Wall Clock, probably Dutch, mid-19th century,
the cast brass dial plate decorated with scroll work, applied chapter ring
with Roman numerals, central alarm setting dial, eight-day time and
alarm spring-powered movement with crown wheel and verge
escapement and 3 1/2 in. rear mounted pendulum, ht. of dial 7 3/4 in.
$400-600
541.
Dutch Stoelklok, c. 1800, with floral decorated hooded bracket
supporting the clock with mermaids flanking the Roman numeral dial,
30-hour brass and steel time and strike movement with pendulum and
brass-cased weight, ht. 28 in.
$600-800
544.
Carved Black Forest Clock and Musical Box, Lenzkirch, c. 1880, in
the form of a Gothic cathedral, the clock is flanked by two turrets with
open belfries and gothic windows backed with pierced fabric, the dial
with bone Roman chapters and hands, mounted behind, a round
French movement with back plate stamped with German retailer
Lenzkirch, rack and snail strike and pendulum with linkage to the six
tune, 8 1/2 in. cylinder musical box with seventy-four teeth marked on
governor bridge J.H. Heller, playing selections including “Oh Come All
Ye Faithful,” all enclosed within a raised architectural pedestal, ht. 30 in.
$5,000-7,000

542.
Carved Black Forest Mantel Clock, Germany and France, late 19th
century, with carved case with two fighting birds surmounting the dial
with raised Roman chapters and central leafage, the bird below on a
rocky outcrop amidst a woodland setting, a rear door opens to reveal
the French eight-day time and strike movement with count-wheel strike
and pendulum, ht. 22 in.
$800-1,200

543.
Black Forest Cuckoo and Quail Clock, Germany, late 19th century,
the elaborately carved case with phoenix and oak leaf cresting, dual
doors for cuckoo and quail automata, leafage surrounding the dial with
Roman numerals, bone hands, thirty-hour wood-plate quarter-striking
movement with brass wheels and steel arbors, oak leaf pendulum and
three acorn weights, ht. 24 in.
$400-600

545

546
545.
Gilt Portico Mantel Clock by Charles Rolland, Paris, c. 1820, four
columns flanking the 4 3/4 in. dia. enameled dial with Roman numerals
and signed Ch..les Rolland a Marseille, Breguet-style blued hands,
eight-day spring-powered movement with count-wheel strike, with grid-
iron brass faced pendulum suspended by a spring, all on engine-turned
bun feet, ht. 19 1/4 in.
$700-900
550
546.
Mahogany Portico Table Clock by Ferey, Havre, France, c. 1820,
with 6 in. dia. engine-turned and fire gilt bezel and center, enameled
chapter ring with Roman numerals and marked Ferey Au Havre,
Breguet blued-steel hands, four columns with gilt capitals, bun feet and
eight-day time and strike movement with count-wheel strike and bi-
metallic, grid iron, temperature-compensated pendulum, ht. 19 3/4 in.
$300-500
547.
French “Swinger” Timepiece, with clock mounted in blue globe with
raised Roman numerals, grid-iron-type pendulum with regulation
assembly all suspended by a bronze statue of two boys climbing a tree
and titled La Maraude, on a variegated marble base, ht. 21 1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
548.
French Mystery Clock, with white onyx case, enameled dial with
Roman numerals, gilt statue supporting the rotary pendulum, eight-day
time and strike movement, all on an ebonized wooden base with glass
dome, ht. 17 1/2 in.
$400-600
549.
French Onyx “Swinger” Mantel Clock, Paris, onyx cyma curves
support the 4 in. dia. chapter ring with Roman numerals and center
removed to expose the eight-day time and strike movement with dual
escape wheels, count-wheel strike and a gilt putti on a swing as a
pendulum, ht. 13 1/2 in.
$900-1,200
550.
French Carriage Clock by Brevete, Paris, with brass and beveled
glass case, oval beveled glass opening in the top revealing the cylinder
platform escapement, eight-day time, bell strike and alarm movement
signed by maker on the back plate V.R. Brevete Paris, enameled dial
with Roman numerals, Breguet blued-steel hands and Arabic numeral
alarm dial, ht. with handle extended 7 in.
$150-250
551 552
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551.
French Hour Repeating Carriage Clock, retailed by West & Son,
Paris, with brass and beveled glass case, enameled dial with Roman
numerals and marked with retailer’s name, eight-day time, strike, alarm,
and hour-repeat on command with platform escapement, ht. with
handle extended 7 1/2 in.
$400-600
552.
French Grande Sonnerie Carriage Clock, with beveled glass case
and brass case, carrying handle and repeat button, enameled dial with
Roman numerals and Arabic alarm dial, grande or petite sonnerie on
command selection lever on the underside, eight-day time, strike,
alarm, and quarter-repeat movement with platform lever-escapement,
ht. 7 1/2 in.
$500-700
553.
Brass Petite Sonnerie Carriage Clock, France, with brass and
beveled glass case, fluted corner columns, rippled trim on molded top
and base, eight-day time, hour- and quarter-hour strike on request and
command, quarter silent lever on the underside, platform escapement,
enameled dial with Arabic numerals and pierced hands, all in the original
leather carrying case, ht. with handle extended 5 1/2 in.
$200-250
554.
French Hour Repeating Carriage Clock, with beveled glass and brass
case, carrying handle and repeat button, enameled dial with Roman
numerals, eight-day time, strike, and hour-repeat on command
movement with platform lever-escapement, ht. 7 1/2 in.
$200-250
555
555.
French Grande Sonnerie Carriage Clock by LeRoy & Fils, the
beveled glass and brass case with carrying handle, push repeat button,
large top escapement viewing glass, 2 1/4 in. round enameled dial with
Roman numerals and signed by the maker, lower alarm dial both with
gilt matted surround, Breguet-style hands, eight-day time, strike, alarm
and grande sonnerie movement with silvered platform lever-
escapement, together with a leather carrying case, ht. 7 in.
$800-1,200
556.
Two French Carriage Clocks, one with brass and beveled glass case
enameled dial with Roman numerals and alarm dial, eight-day time and
strike movement (lacking carrying handle and platform escapement), ht.
5 1/4; and an hour repeating example with enameled dial signed Black,
Starr and Frost, New York, time, strike, alarm, and hour-repeat on
command movement with platform escapement and leather carrying
case, (replacement platform, movement needs cleaning), ht. 6 in.
$100-150
557.
Incomplete Carriage Clocks, Case, and Movement Parts.
$100-150
558.
Two Nickel Case “Goliath” Pocket Watches or Desk Clocks,
Switzerland, both with 4 3/4 in. white enameled dials with Roman
chapters and marked J.C. Vickery, To Their Majesties the King and
Queen, 179, 181,183 Regent St. W., blued-steel spade hands, eight-
day Swiss lever-escapement movements and carrying cases with sliding
backs, the first in alligator case over wood with silver trim and WC
monogram, the last in black with silver trim, ht. 8 1/2 in.
$200-300
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559.
Belgian Slate and Marble Three-Piece French Clock Garniture, the
drum head with variegated red marble surrounding the enameled dial
with Roman numerals and recessed center with Brocot exposed
escapement and Breguet-type moon hands, the midsection with
beveled glass and brass beading to view the grid-iron pendulum, all on
a scroll base with marble beading, eight-day time and count-wheel
strike movement, rear plate stamped P.R., together with matching
garniture, ht. 17 in.
$500-700
560.
Chinese Drum Clock on Rosewood Stand, the 4 1/2 in. dia. pierced
gilt-brass case with enameled chapter ring with horary characters,
spring-powered fusee time and alarm movement (incomplete), on a
modern rosewood stand.
$200-400

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561.
Gilt Renaissance-style Table Clock, probably Germany, late 19th
century, the gilt-brass case with removable side panel, top mounted
bell, the front applied pewter 24-hour chapter ring with Roman and
Arabic numerals, single steel hand, the rear with alarm dial, iron and
brass posted frame movement with fusee for time and alarm train and
crown wheel and verge escapement, ht. 9 in.
$300-500
562.
Brass Atmos Clock by LeCoultre, Switzerland, with brass and glass
case, Arabic numeral dial marked LeCoultre, 15-jewel movement
powered by changes in barometric pressure and regulated by a
revolving pendulum, ht. 9 1/4 in.
$200-400
563.
Mahogany Off-Center Pillar and Scroll Clock by Seth Thomas,
Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1818, the scroll-top case with brass urn
finials, painted wooden dial with Roman numerals and raised gilt gesso
and Arabic minutes inside chapter ring, red and green diamond pattern
spandrels on a gilt background, reverse-painted tablet with off-set
pendulum aperture, printed maker’s label on backboard stating in part
Patent Clocks Made and Sold by Seth Thomas, Warranted if Well Used,
thirty-hour strap type movement with count-wheel mounted at the
center, wooden pulleys on the underside of the roof board, tin-cased
wood capped weights with internal pulleys and brass-faced pendulum
bob, ht. 30 1/4 in.
$2,000-4,000
564.
Mahogany Outside Escapement Pillar and Scroll Clock by Eli Terry,
Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1818, scroll-top case, painted wooden dial
with Arabic numerals and delicate floral decoration, raised gesso dot
inner minute track, pewter hands, reverse-painted tablet depicting
classical urns in gold leaf, red flowers and a gold leaf floral garland
pendulum aperture, printed maker’s label inside stating Made and Sold
by Eli Terry, Plymouth, Con. flanked by equation of time tables, thirty-
hour time and rack strike movement with pendulum and two cast iron
weights, ht. 28 in. without finials.
$8,000-12,000
565.
Mahogany “Brooklyn” Lever Spring Shelf Clock by Joseph Ives,
Brooklyn, New York, c. 1825-30, with 10 1/2 in. dia. iron dial with
Roman numerals, brass bezel, pressed brass rosettes supporting the
head section, lower box with looking glass and printed maker’s label
inside stating in part Manufactured by Joseph Ives, Brooklyn, Long
Island, New York, Warranted if Well Used, carved paw feet in front,
turned in the back, eight-day, riveted strap brass movement with count-
wheel strike, roller pinions and iron wagon spring mounted in the base,
ht. 29 in.
Literature: Kenneth Roberts, The Contributions of Joseph Ives to
Connecticut Clock Technology, 1810-1862, pp. 83-86.
$10,000-15,000
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566.
Mahogany Pillar and Scroll Clock by Eli and Samuel Terry,
Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1824-27, scroll top and brass urn finials over
the painted wooden dial with Roman numerals and floral decoration, the
lower reverse-painted tablet depicting a town center with central
aperture for viewing pendulum, all on delicate French feet with scalloped
apron, thirty-hour time and count-wheel strike wooden movement with
pendulum and two cast iron weights, ht. 31 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
569
568
567.
Miniature Mahogany Ogee Clock by Ansonia Brass Company,
Ansonia, Connecticut, painted zinc dial with Roman numerals and floral
decoration, transfer- and paint-decorated lower tablet, printed maker’s
label inside with directions for regulating the clock and thirty-hour time
and strike spring-powered movement with pendulum, ht. 18 1/2 in.
$200-300
568.
Miniature Mahogany Sleigh-Front Shelf Clock by E.O. Goodwin,
Bristol, Connecticut, painted zinc dial with Roman numerals and signed
E.O. Goodwin, Bristol, CT, gilded and paint decorated half columns
flanking the upper door with painted spandrels around the dial and
transfer-decorated tablet depicting an architectural subject, the lower
door with similarly decorated tablet opens to reveal the printed maker’s
label, all housing an eight-day time and strike spring-powered
movement and pendulum, ht. 20 1/2 in.
$650-750
569.
Mahogany Beveled Shelf Clock by William S. Johnson, New York,
the beveled case with glazed upper section over the wooden dial with
Roman numerals, lower section with reverse-painted tablet in blue,
green, red and silver tones, printed maker’s label on backboard, thirty-
hour time and strike movement with pendulum and two cast iron
weights, ht. 27 1/2 in.
$150-200
570.
Mahogany Sharp Gothic Steeple Clock by C. Goodrich, Forestville,
Connecticut, painted zinc dial with Roman numerals and signed C.
Goodrich Forestville, Ct. U.S.A., frosted tablet, eight-day time and strike
movement and printed maker’s label inside, ht. 19 3/4 in.
$275-325
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571.
Mahogany Sharp Gothic Steeple Clock by Terry and Andrewes,
Bristol, Connecticut, with painted Roman numeral zinc dial, transfer
decorated tablet with strawberries, eight-day, time and strike, lyre plate
movement with brass springs, detached brass spring alarm movement
and printed maker’s label inside, ht. 20 in.
$250-350
572.
Miniature E. Howard #70 Wall Regulators by Wayne Cline, Bowling
Green, Kentucky, replicas in oak and cherry of the popular E. Howard
model #70, 6 in. painted zinc dials with Roman numerals and maker’s
signature, painted tablets and one-day lever-escapement movements,
ht. 15 in.
$1,000-1,500
573.
Inlaid Mahogany Thirty-Day “Hudson” Wall Clock by Seth Thomas,
Thomaston, Connecticut, c. 1910, 14 in. zinc dial with Arabic numerals
and marked Seth Thomas, thirty-day double spring movement with
dead-beat escapement and pendulum, 18 in. square.
$400-600
574.
Mahogany Thirty-Day Wall Clock by Seth Thomas, Thomaston,
Connecticut, the turned bezel opens to reveal the 18 in. painted zinc
dial with Arabic numerals marked Seth Thomas and Thirty Day, dual
spring timepiece movement with dead-beat escapement, Geneva stops
and rear-hung pendulum, case dia. 24 in.
$1,500-2,500
571
575.
Sonora Chime Clock by Seth Thomas, Thomaston, Connecticut, the
adamantine case with incised gilt decoration, 4 1/2 in. silvered dial with
Arabic numerals and marked Seth Thomas, Sonora Chime, eight-day
time, strike, and quarter-chime on four bells, ht. 14 in.
$400-600
576.
Mahogany Pillar and Scroll Shelf Clock, attributed to Riley Whiting,
the scroll-top case over the painted wooden dial with Arabic numerals,
reverse-painted tablet with stenciled boarder and classical house,
remains of a maker’s label inside backboard and presently fitted with an
eight-day time and strike, spring-powered brass movement together
with the original thirty-hour wooden movement attributed to Riley
Whiting, ht. 30 in.
$600-900
577.
Brass Art Deco Mantel Clock by Ansonia, Brooklyn, New York, with
cast leaf decoration, brass bezel with beveled glass over the 4 1/4 in.
dia. silvered brass dial with Arabic numerals and eight-day time and
gong strike movement with pendulum, ht. 10 1/2 in.
$200-400
578.
Mahogany Pillar and Scroll Shelf Clock by Ephraim Downes, Bristol,
Connecticut, c. 1825, the scroll-top case with cast urn finials, painted
wooden dial with Arabic numerals, raised gesso chapter ring marks and
scroll work spandrels, reverse-painted tablet of a town center, printed
maker’s label inside case and thirty-hour time and count-wheel strike
movement with pendulum and two cast iron weights, ht. 31 in.
$800-1,200

579
579.
Mahogany Sleigh-front Shelf Clock by Seth Thomas, Plymouth
Hollow, Connecticut, the top door with glazed upper section over the
painted zinc dial with Roman numerals, painted tablet with strawberries
and green leaves all flanked by smoke-grained and gilded tablets, the
lower door with floral painted tablet over the printed paper maker’s
label, thirty-hour time and strike weight-powered movement with
pendulum, ht. 32 1/2 in.
$600-800
580.
Rosewood Thirty-Day Lever Spring Wall Clock by Atkins Clock
Company, Bristol, Connecticut, c. 1860, ripple molded case with
printed maker’s label inside backboard, painted zinc dial with Roman
numerals, black and gold transfer decorated tablet, thirty-day
“Equalizing Lever Spring” timepiece and pendulum, ht. 25 1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
581.
Mahogany Shelf Clock by Asa Munger & Company, Auburn, New
York, 1833, with carved basket crest, looking glasses flanking the
stenciled glass framing the 8 3/4 in. painted iron dial marked Warranted
Asa Munger & Co., Auburn, N.Y., lower looking glass flanked by carved
columns, paw feet, wallpapered interior, 5 x 6 in. printed maker’s label,
eight-day brass time and strike skeletonized movement with hammer
stamped 1833, two iron weights and eagle pendulum, ht. 39 3/4 in.
Literature: Information on Asa Munger and his clocks is found in
Oechsle and Boyce, An Empire in Time, Clocks and Clock Makers of
Upstate New York, pp. 93-97.
$1,200-1,500
582.
Walnut “Parisian” Mantel Clock by Kroeber, New York, c. 1900,
painted zinc dial with Roman numerals, silver leaf transfer-decorated
tablet, beat scale calibrated with Roman numerals and marked F.
Kroeber, New York and eight-day time and strike movement with
Kroeber patent pendulum with index regulation, ht. 22 1/2 in.
$200-300
583.
Walnut Carved “Knocker” Shelf Clock, Connecticut, late 19th
century, paper dial, arched parcel-gilt glass, no label, brass eight-day
spring-powered movement, ht. 19 3/4 in.
$250-450
584.
Clock and Barometer Desk Set by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
the 4 3/4 in. polished brass cases with screw-on bezels, 3 1/2 in. dia.
silvered dials, the time dial with Arabic numerals and marked Chelsea
Ship’s Bell, the other with Holosteric Barometer and thermometer
marked Chelsea and eight-day lever-escapement movement striking
ship’s bell, both in a mahogany stand, lg. 14 in.
$500-700
585.
Oak Wall Regulator by Chelsea, Boston, #70 case form, 13 1/2 in.
dia. zinc dial with Roman numerals and marked H.N. Lockwood,
Boston, eight-day time-only movement marked Chelsea Clock
Company, with pendulum and iron weight, ht. 33 in.
$500-700
586.
U.S. Constitution Ship’s Bell Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, 1993, the “base and ball” 18kt gold plated case with
hinged bezel, inscribed at the base 1787-Constitution of the United
States-1987, 5 1/2 in. dia. silvered dial with Arabic numerals and
marked Chelsea Ship’s Bell, eight-day ship’s bell striking movement with
lever-escapement, ht. 9 in.
Note: Made in a limited edition in 1993, this example is #339 of 750
and carried a suggested retail price of $1500.
$500-700
587.
Brass Ship’s Bell Clock By Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, with
hinged bezel, 6 in. dia. silvered brass dial marked Chelsea Ship’s Bell
and Chas. C. Hutchinson, Boston. U.S.A., Arabic numerals, moon
hands and eight-day ship’s bell striking lever-escapement movement,
overall dia. 8 in.
$400-600
588.
Clock and Barometer Set by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, the 4
3/4 in. dia. cases with screw-on bezels, 3 3/4 in. dia. silvered brass
dials, the clock marked Chelsea Ship’s Bell and Bailey, Banks & Biddle
Co., the barometer marked Chelsea, eight-day lever-escapement
movement striking ship’s bells, all on a walnut wall mount with
inclination scale and brass hand, ht. 12 in.
$400-600
589.
Mahogany Mantel Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, 7 1/2
in. silvered dial with Arabic numerals and marked Chelsea Clock Co.,
Boston, U.S.A. and eight-day “house” strike lever-escapement
movement, ht. 12 1/2 in.
$300-500
590.
Carved Mahogany Shelf Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
5-in dia. silvered dial with Arabic numerals and marked Tiffany & Co.,
New York, eight-day “house” strike lever-escapement movement, ht. 14
in.
$800-1,000
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591.
Aircraft Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, the Bakelite case
with hinged bezel, 7 3/4 in. dia. multicolored 24-hour dial with Arabic
numerals, regulating aperture, spade hands, center seconds, lever-
escapement time-only movement, rear of case marked Chelsea Clock
Co. Boston, maximum dia. 10 1/4 in.
$500-800
592.
“Commodore” Ship’s Bell Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, the base and ball case form in “verde antique” finish
with hinged bezel, 8 in. dia. silvered dial marked Ship’s Bell and J.E.
Caldwell & Co., Philadelphia, with raised Arabic numerals and regulation
aperture, eight-day ship’s bell striking lever-escapement movement, ht.
12 1/2 in.
$2,500-3,500
593.
“Yacht Wheel” Ship’s Bell Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, the nautical case with hinged bezel in “polished bronze
metal” finish, 5 3/4 in. dia. silvered dial with Arabic numerals and
marked Chelsea Ship’s Bell, eight-day time and ship’s bell strike lever-
escapement movement, ht. 17 1/2 in.
$1,500-2,500
595
594
594.
Millennium Ship’s Bell Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
with polished brass and American walnut case, hinged bezel, 8 1/2 in.
silvered dial with raised Arabic numerals and millennium logo, the base
engraved with the names of famous artists and scientists, eight-day
lever-escapement movement striking ship’s bell, ht. 13 in.
Note: Introduced by Chelsea in 1999 to celebrate the new millennium
carried a suggested retail price of $3,000.
$1,500-2,000
595.
“Tambour No. 1” Mantel Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
c. 1903, the brass ball foot case with hinged bezel housing the 10 in.
dia. silvered dial with raised Arabic numerals, brass serpentine hands
and eight-day time and “house strike” lever-escapement movement
stamped with maker’s name and 68331, ht. 17 1/4, wd. 24 in.
$6,000-12,000
596.
Brass and Walnut Ship’s Bell Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, American walnut cradle supporting the case with
hinged bezel, silvered 8 1/2 in. “Special Grand” dial with raised Arabic
numerals and pierced center, eight-day ship’s bell striking lever-
escapement movement, ht. 13 1/2 in.
$1,500-2,500
596
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597

597.
Commodore Ship’s Bell Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
the lacquered “base and ball” case form with hinged bezel, 10 in. brass
dial with raised Arabic numerals and marked Ship’s Bell and Becker’s
Washington, eight-day ship’s bell lever-escapement movement, ht. 15
1/2 in.
$5,000-10,000

598.
Mahogany Quarter-Chiming Tall Clock, Germany, c. 1900, scroll top
case with carved rosettes, free-standing fluted columns flanking the
brass dial with Arabic numerals, applied pierced decoration, subsidiary
dials for Chime-Silent and Westminster-Whittington selection and
moon’s age in the arch, eight-day weight-powered movement chiming
quarters on eight bells or four gongs, pendulum and three brass-cased
weights, ht. 98 1/2 in.
$8,000-12,000

599.
Walnut Quarter-Chiming Tall Clock by Elliott, London, with crescent
cornice and turned finials, fluted pilasters flanking the 13 1/4 in. brass
composite dial with Arabic numerals and chapter ring engraved Elliott,
London, pierced spandrels and subsidiary dials for Chime-Silent and
Westminster-Whittington, oval beveled glass in the waist section, carved
base panel, paw feet and eight-day time, strike and eight bell, quarter-
chiming movement with pendulum and three brass-cased weights, ht.
98 1/2 in.

Note: Deaccessioned from the National Watch and Clock Museum,

Columbia, Pennsylvania, to benefit the Museum Acquisitions Fund.
$4,000-6,000

600.
Mahogany Astronomical Wall Regulator, probably England, c. 1880,
the removable hood with brass bezel over the 13 in. dia. engraved
silvered dial with minutes around the perimeter, seconds and hours on
subsidiary dials, glazed waist door, beveled pedestal, eight-day
timepiece, dead-beat escapement with removable pallets, maintaining
power, compound pulley, “T” bridge suspension, wooden pendulum
rod, nickeled bob, beat scale and cylindrical weight, ht. 63 in.
Note: Deaccessioned from the National Watch and Clock Museum,
Columbia, Pennsylvania, to benefit the Museum Acquisitions Fund.
$3,000-3,500
601.
Walnut Master Wall Clock by E. Howard & Company, Boston,
Massachusetts, c. 1890, 16 in. painted zinc dial with Roman numerals
and marked E. Howard & Co., Boston., eight-day timepiece with dead-
beat escapement, maintaining power, Geneva stop, and marked E.
Howard & Co., Boston regulated by a wood rod and brass-faced
pendulum bob and powered by a brass-cased weight, ht. 76 in.
$4,000-6,000
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600

602.
Oak #70 Wall Regulator by E. Howard, Boston, Massachusetts,
turned wooden bezel over the 12 in. painted zinc dial with Roman
numerals and inscribed E. Howard & Co., Boston, reverse-painted
lower tablet and eight-day time-only zinc plate movement stamped E.
Howard & Co. Boston and 70, with pendulum and cast iron weight, ht.
32 in.
$1,500-2,000 601
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603.
Oak #70 14-inch Wall Regulator by E. Howard, Boston,
Massachusetts, c. 1900, 14 in. painted zinc dial with Roman numerals
and signed E. Howard & Co., Boston, painted lower tablet and eight-
day, nickel plate time-only movement stamped E. Howard & Co.,
Boston and 5 with pendulum and iron weight with cast 70 mark, ht. 35
1/2 in.
$3,000-5,000

604.
Walnut #70 16-inch Wall Regulator by E. Howard, Boston,
Massachusetts, c. 1889, 16 in. painted zinc dial marked E. Howard &
Co., Boston and around the outside of the chapter ring, Presented to
John Collins Warren, March 6, 1889, Havard [sic] Medical School,
painted tablet in the lower section, eight-day brass plate timepiece
marked E. Howard & Co., Boston and 4, iron weight and flat wood rod
and damascened pendulum bob, ht. 41 in.
$4,000-6,000

605.
Oak and Ash Astronomical Wall Regulator, probably England, c.
1890, cornice top with dentils and incised flowers, full-length glazed
door, 12 in. dia. silvered brass dial with outer minutes, hours and
seconds on subsidiary dials, blued-steel hands, brass movement
mounted on a cast iron bracket with dead-beat escapement,
maintaining power, wheels with five crossings, high tooth and pinion
count train, wooden pendulum rod and lead “anchor”-shaped bob, all
powered by an iron compound weight with integral pulley, ht. 66 in.

Note: Deaccessioned from the National Watch and Clock Museum,

603 Columbia, Pennsylvania, to benefit the Museum Acquisitions Fund.
$2,000-4,000
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607

606.
Walnut Astronomical Wall Regulator by Cuthbert and Brereton,
probably United Kingdom, c. 1868, the dome-top case with hinged
movement access doors at the top, full-length glazed door, 10 1/2 in.
dia. silvered dial with Arabic minutes around the perimeter, seconds
above the center, hours below with Roman numerals, carved cresting
below dial, eight-day, six pillar movement with lantern pinions,
maintaining power, jeweled two-legged gravity escapement powered by
a brass-cased weight and regulated by a brass-faced pendulum bob
and iron rod, ht. 49 in.
$3,000-5,000

607.
Mahogany Floor-Standing Master Clock by E. Howard, Boston,
Massachusetts, c. 1900, molded cornice top with glazed top door
opening to reveal the 16 1/2 in. dia. painted zinc dial with Roman
numerals and signed E. Howard & Co. Boston, carved ornament over
the glazed waist door on a sleigh-front molded base pediment, 9 1/2 x
4 1/2 in. rectangular eight-day timepiece movement stamped E.
Howard & Co. Boston, with dead-beat escapement, maintaining power
and Geneva stop, silver-leafed wooden rod with brass cylindrical weight
and nickel damascened bob, ht. 94, wd. 34, dp. 15 3/4 in.

Note: Deaccessioned from the National Watch and Clock Museum,

Columbia, Pennsylvania, to benefit the Museum Acquisitions Fund.
$5,000-7,000

606
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608.
Mahogany No. 89 Wall Regulator by E. Howard & Company,
Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1910, the full-length glazed door opens to
reveal the 12 in. dial with Roman numerals and marked E. Howard &
Co. Boston, eight-day movement with dead-beat escapement,
maintaining power, Geneva stop, and seconds beat pendulum with
silver leaf rod and damascened nickel pendulum bob powered by a
cast lead weight descending behind a mahogany baffle, ht. 60 in.
$4,000-6,000

609.
Mahogany “Banjo” Clock by E. Howard, Boston, Massachusetts,
gilded rope-molded frames enclosing reverse-painted glasses, the lower
depicting a house and church, the waist flanked by brass side
ornaments, 7 3/4 in. painted zinc dial with Roman numerals over the
eight-day time-only brass movement stamped E. Howard & Co., Boston
with pendulum and lead weight, ht. 43 in.
$1,000-1,500

610.
Cherry “Figure Eight” Wall Regulator by Wayne Cline, Bowling
Green, Kentucky, 1975, a modern reproduction of the popular Howard
figure-eight wall clock with reverse-painted tablets, painted zinc dial with
Roman numerals and eight-day time-only weight-powered movement,
ht. 35 in.
$500-700

610
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611.
#4 Wall Regulator by Howard & Davis, Boston, Massachusetts, with
grain-painted case and frames enclosing reverse-painted glasses, the
lower inscribed U.S. Lighthouse Establishment, 8 in. painted iron dial
signed Howard & Davis, Boston, unmarked eight-day time-only
movement with pendulum and cast iron weight, ht. 32 in.
$2,000-4,000

612.
No. 1 Regulator by E. Howard, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1860,
cherry and birch swell bottom case with 12 in. dia. painted zinc dial with
Roman numerals and marked Howard & Davis Boston., reverse-painted
glasses in red, gold and black enclosed within half round frames,
trapezoidal-shaped eight-day timepiece movement stamped on front
plate E. Howard & Co., Boston with dead-beat escapement, Geneva
stop, maintaining power, cast iron weight cast “1,” gilt wooden
pendulum rod and damascened bob, ht. 50 in.
$6,000-8,000

613.
No. 17 Marble Dial Wall Clock by E. Howard, Boston,
Massachusetts, c. 1892, 24 in. marble dial with Roman numerals and
marked E. Howard & Co. Boston, the lower section with black and gold
painted glass and dated 1892, eight-day brass movement marked E.
Howard & Co. Boston with recoil escapement, Geneva stop, counter
balanced dial wheel work, regulation through the top of case, lead
weight and wooden pendulum rod with brass bob, ht. 42 in.
$2,000-4,000
613
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616

614.
Framed Blueprint of the E. Howard Clock Company, Waltham,
Massachusetts, c. 1934, the colored blueprint drawing of the Howard
factory layout on Charles Street, Waltham depicting the factory and
various departments including the train, jewelling, finishing, timing
rooms, and the “machine shop” used as a fire insurance survey,
professionally framed in a walnut frame with ripple molding, print size 20
x 26, overall 29 x 35 in.
$400-600

615.
Oak Regulator No. 3 by Seth Thomas, Thomaston, Connecticut, c.
1925, octagonal bezel opens to the 14 in. painted zinc dial with Arabic
numerals, seconds bit and marked Seth Thomas and Ball R.R.
Standard, the lower glazed door for access to the pendulum and brass-
cased weight, eight-day time-only No. 62 movement with dead-beat
escapement and maintaining power, ht. 41 in.
$2,500-3,500

616.
Oak #3 Wall Regulator by Chelsea, Boston, the oak case with turned
bezel over the 13 1/4 in. dia. zinc dial with Roman numerals and
inscribed Chelsea Clock Co., Boston., eight-day timepiece with
maintaining power, dead-beat escapement, pendulum and brass-cased
weight, ht. 37 in.
$4,000-6,000

615
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617

617.
Oak #70 16-inch Wall Regulator by E. Howard, Boston, turned
wooden bezel over the 16 in. dial with Roman numerals signed E.
Howard & Co., Boston, painted glass tablet on lower door and eight-
day time-only movement stamped E. Howard & Co., Boston and 5, with
pendulum and iron weight, ht. 42 in.
$6,000-8,000

618.
Oak #70 Wall Regulator by E. Howard, Boston, Massachusetts, the
case with glazed wooden bezel over the 12 in. painted zinc dial with
Roman numerals and marked E. Howard & Co. Boston, lower door with
reverse-painted glass, eight-day time-only movement, with pendulum
and iron weight, ht. 31 in.
$1,200-1,500

619.
Oak Master Clock by E. Howard & Company, Boston,
Massachusetts, c. 1915, 12 in. zinc dial with Roman chapters and
marked E. Howard & Co., Boston, zinc plate movement with dead-beat
escapement, maintaining power, Geneva stop and chain attachment to
electrical impulse, all powered by a flat cast lead weight and regulated
by a pendulum, ht. 59 in.
$1,500-2,500

620.
Oak Master Wall Clock by Standard Electric Time, Springfield,
Massachusetts, c. 1900, glazed full-length door, 12 in. painted zinc dial
with Roman chapters and marked with maker’s name, brass electrically
wound movement with dead-beat escapement, seconds beat
pendulum and nickel damascened bob, ht. 64 in.
$400-600
620

621
621.
Walnut Sweep Seconds Wall Regulator, attributed to New Haven
Clock Company, with 12 in. dia. silvered brass dial with Roman
numerals, engaged barley-twist and free-standing columns flanking the
glazed full-length door, eight-day timepiece with sweep seconds, dead-
beat escapement, two-jar pendulum bob and brass-cased weight, ht.
80 in.
$3,000-5,000
622.
Cherry Wall Regulator by George Hatch, North Attleboro,
Massachusetts, painted zinc dial with Roman numerals, moon hands,
half round frames enclosing reverse painted black and gold tablets and
eight-day time only weight-powered movement with detachable
pendulum bob and iron weight, ht. 29 in.
$300-500
623.
Mahogany Regulator Wall Clock, with full-length glazed door, silvered
plate engraved Regulator and associated pin-wheel escapement Swiss
movement with one-jar pendulum, ht. 55 in.
Note: Deaccessioned from the National Watch and Clock Museum,
Columbia, Pennsylvania, to benefit the Museum Acquisitions Fund.
$200-400
624.
Miniature “Banjo” Clock by Waltham Clock Company, Waltham,
Massachusetts, mahogany case with screw-fit brass bezel, Arabic
numeral 3 1/2 in. dia. dial, gilded rope molded frames enclosing
reverse-painted tablets, the waist with Federal shield and flanked by
brass side ornaments, the lower depicting and marked Perry’s Victory
with carved and gilded pedestal below, eight-day 37 size lever-
escapement movement with winding crown in lower box, ht. 21 1/2 in.
$600-800
625.
Two Deck Clocks by Chelsea and Seth Thomas, the brass Chelsea
clock with eight-sided case, screw-on bezel, 3 1/2 in. silvered dial with
Arabic numerals and marked Chelsea Clock Co., Boston USA, with
eight-day lever-escapement time-only movement, the Seth Thomas in a
Bakelite case, black dial with Arabic numerals and marked Mark I Deck
Clock US Navy, dia. 7 in.
$200-400
626.
Oak Wall Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1910, the
case with beaded trim on the cornice and base, 13 in. dia. painted zinc
dial with Roman numerals and marked Riggs & Bro. Philada. and eight-
day time-only 4 in. dia. spring-powered lever-escapement movement,
ht. 21 in.
$800-1,200
627.
“Crystal” Ship’s Bell Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, c.
1911, the brass and beveled glass case in a carriage clock form with
front and rear doors and carrying handle, 3 3/4 in. silvered brass dial
with raised Arabic numerals and etched floral decoration, eight-day
brass ship’s bell striking movement with lever-escapement, ht. with
handle extended 11 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
628.
Limited Edition Ship’s Bell Desk Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, the polished brass case in the classic ship’s wheel
design, 3 3/4 in. dia. silvered brass dial with Arabic numerals and
marked Chelsea and Ship’s Bell, eight-day lever-escapement movement
striking ship’s bell on a gong, ht. approximately 8 in.
$400-800
629.
Mahogany Ship’s Bell Tambour Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, with 5 1/2 in. silvered dial with Arabic numerals and
marked Chelsea Ship’s Bell and K. Laholt’s, Springfield, Ill., eight-day
time and ship’s bell strike lever-escapement movement, ht. 10 1/2 in.
$300-500
630.
Mahogany Mantel Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts, 5 in.
silvered dial with Arabic numerals and marked Chelsea and Jaccard
Jewelry Co., Kansas City, blind fret pattern along the base and eight-
day, time and “house” strike lever-escapement movement, ht. 10 1/4 in.
$300-500
631.
Brass “Boston” Mantel Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
the matte finish brass case with hinged bezel, 4 1/4 in. dia. Special
Grand Dial marked Chelsea, beveled glass on the sides and rear door
and eight-day brass “house strike” lever-escapement movement with
gong strike, ht. 7 1/2 in.
Note: Developed in 1998, this model originally sold for $1,800.
$700-900

632.
Monumental Oak Wall Clock by Tiffany, New York, c. 1890,
freestanding columns flanking the glazed door with carved spandrels
and beveled glass lower door, 18 in. silvered brass dial with Roman
numerals and marked Tiffany & Co., eight-day spring-powered
movement with dead-beat escapement and grid-iron pendulum, all on a
stop-fluted carved pedestal, ht. 56, wd. 33, dp. 15 in.
632
Provenance: Part of the furnishings of Eimer & Amend Apothecary, 49
East 34th Street. Between 1851-1951, this pharmacy filled about 10
million prescriptions with esteemed customers including Peter Cooper,
Charles Dana, Cyrus Field, Hamilton Fish, Abram Hewitt, Washington
Irving, and Samuel Tilden.
$3,000-5,000
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642

640

633.
French Alabaster Table Regulator, the white and pink alabaster case
with brass beading, drum top supporting the beaded bezel, gilt dial
surround, enameled dial with Roman numerals and recessed center
with Brocot exposed escapement and Breguet-type moon hands, over
a beveled glass opening revealing the grid-iron pendulum, eight-day
time and bell strike movement, ht. 17 in.
$600-800
637.
French Rosewood Conical Pendulum Clock by Brevete, late 19th
century, the veneered hinged case with spelter figure at the top and
pendulum suspended from her raised arm, 4 in. dia. engraved brass
dial with Roman numerals, eight-day time and count-wheel strike
movement, ht. 13 in.
$200-400

634.
French Belgian Slate and Mable Mantel Clock, Marti & Cie., Paris,
the flat-top case highlighted with variegated green marble trim, 4 in.
enameled dial with Roman numerals, recessed center with exposed
Brocot escapement, Breguet-style moon hands and eight-day time and
strike movement with count-wheel and pendulum, ht. 11 in.
$200-400

635.
Gilt Renaissance-style Table Clock, probably German, late 19th
century, the brass balustrade case and cupola with abundant finials, the
front with two chapter rings, the upper with Roman numerals of typical
form, the lower with I-II-III-IIII marks, blued-steel hands, the rear with
Arabic numeral chapter ring and two winding squares, glazed side
openings to view the time and alarm fusee movement, ht. 11 1/2 in.
$400-600

636.
French Three-Piece Gilt-brass Clock Garniture, Japy Frères, the
clock with caddy top, balustrades and finials, columns flanking the dial
with raised enamel Arabic numerals, painted floral decoration
surrounding the dial and sides, eight-day time and strike movement by
Japy Frères with pendulum and similarly decorated garniture, max. ht.
17 in.
$800-1,200

643
638.
French Belgian Slate and Marble Mantel Clock, the slate case
decorated with variegated green and black marble, 5 1/2 in. enameled
dial with Roman numerals and Brocot outside escapement, lower
section with beveled glass revealing the two “jar” 12 in. pendulum,
eight-day time and strike movement with count-wheel strike, ht. 18 3/4
in.
$400-600

639.
Mahogany Banjo Clock by Waltham, Waltham Clock Company, c.
1920, with brass rope molded frames enclosing reverse-painted tablets,
the lower depicting the “Boston State House,” painted iron dials with
Arabic numerals and marked Waltham, eight-day, weight-powered
movement with Geneva stop, maintaining power, dead-beat
escapement, weight and pendulum, ht. 42 in.
$300-500

640.
Walnut No. 3 1/2 Parlor Calendar Clock by Ithaca, Ithaca, New York,
the case with ebonized carved components, printed black dial with
Roman numerals, glass calendar dial with exposed roller day and month
indication, beveled glass pendulum and eight-day time and bell strike
movement, ht. 19 in.
$1,000-2,000

641.
“No. 10 Farmer’s” Calendar Clock by the Ithaca Calendar Clock
Company, Ithaca, New York, the walnut case with carved crest, full-
length door with applied molded trim, glazed openings reveal the 8 in.
paper on zinc dials, the time dial with Roman numerals, the calendar
dial marked with maker’s name, rear door opens for access to the
eight-day time and strike movement, ht. 26 in.
$200-400

642.
Walnut Lewis Patent Calendar Clock by Ingraham, Bristol,
Connecticut, c. 1880, the case with carved crest, freestanding columns
flanking the 5 1/2 in. paper on zinc dial with Roman numerals and day-
of-the week, the lower hinged section with calendar mechanism, B.B.
Lewis label, 7 1/2 in. calendar dial, month and day-of-the-month
indication, carved spandrels and molded base stamped by maker
inside, eight-day time and strike movement with pendulum, ht. 21 1/2
in.
$2,000-3,000

643.
Walnut No. 0 Bank Calendar Wall Clock by Ithaca, Ithaca, New York, 646
c. 1880, the carved case with full-length glazed door, 12 in. paper on
zinc dials, the time dial with Roman numerals, the calendar with day-of-
645.
the-month, day, and month, and marked Manufactured by the Ithaca
Mahogany Patent Timepiece or “Banjo” Clock Attributed to Horace
Calendar Clock Company, Ithaca New, York, eight-day dual-wind
Tifft, Attleboro, Massachusetts, c. 1840, with flat beveled frames,
weight-powered movement with pendulum and iron weights, ht. 61 in.
reverse-painted tablets, the lower of Aurora on her chariot, painted zinc
$5,000-8,000
dial with Roman numerals, moon-shaped hands and eight-day time-
only weight-powered movement with iron weight and pendulum, ht. 33
644. in.
Walnut “Solar Timepiece” or Globe Clock by Timby, Saratoga $500-700
Springs, New York, c. 1865, the scroll-top case with central turned finial
and gilt pendant, printed paper Arabic numeral hour dial encircling the 6
646.
in. twelve-gore printed globe marked on the maker’s boss Joslin’s Six
Brass Clock Movement and Dial by Samuel Mulliken, Bradford,
Inch Terrestrial Globe, Containing the Latest Discoveries, Gillman Joslin,
Massachusetts, c. 1740, the 10 1/4 in. brass composite dial with
Boston 1860, in a brass yoke with North Pole facing front, lower printed
matted center, applied brass chapter ring with Roman numerals,
paper minute dial with Arabic numerals behind a hinged and glazed
quarter- and half-hour markings, name boss in the arch engraved
door, eight-day time-only movement with balance wheel escapement,
Samuel Mulliken Bradford, pewter spandrels, the corners of crown and
ht. 26 1/2 in.
cherub pattern, single hand, time and strike posted frame movement
with count-wheel, recoil escapement, endless rope suspension, period
Note: The annual report of the American Institute, New York City, 1867-
lead weight, pendulum and bracket for corner mounting, a copy of
68, describes the Timby timepiece as “a miniature world or model of the
Nutting’s The Clock Book, 1924, accompanies the lot, dial ht. 14 1/4 in.
earth, put in motion, making a revolution once in twenty-four hours,
moved by a superior time movement, requiring to be wound once in Note: Samuel Mulliken purchased property in Newbury by 1750 and
eight-days...,” An Empire in Time, Clocks and Clock Makers of Upstate remains one of several New England makers of posted frame
New York by G. Russell Oechsle and Helen Boyce, pp. 136-138. movements.
$4,000-6,000 $1,000-1,500

647 with detail view
647.
Mahogany Patent Timepiece or “Banjo” Clock by Daniel Munroe,
Jr., sold to Lothrop Davis by John Munroe, Barnstable, June 1826, the
painted iron dial with Roman numerals inscribed Warranted by D.
Munroe, gilded rope moldings enclosing reverse-painted glasses, the
lower, an allegorical scene depicting Lady Liberty holding the American
flag while standing in a seashell pulled by two stallions, gilded pedestal
and eight-day time-only movement with iron weight and pendulum, ht.
40 in.
Provenance: Consigned by descendants of Lothrop Davis. The original
bill of sale is with the clock stating, Mr. Lothrop Davis June 1826, Bot.
of John Munroe, one Eight Day Timepiece...$20. Rec. paymt. John
Munroe. Documents signed by Abner and Lothrop Davis, Justice of the
Peace in Barnstable dating 1817 and 1840, and a copy of John
Munroe and Old Barnstable signed by the author, Elizabeth Munroe,
1911, also accompany the lot.
$2,000-4,000
648
648.
Mahogany Striking Patent Timepiece or “Banjo” Clock, New
England, c. 1825, with gilded rope molded frames enclosing reverse-
paintings on glass, the lower depicting and marked Juno and the waist
glass marked Patent, painted iron dial with Roman numerals, eight-day
time and strike movement marked on front plate A. Willard Grafton, with
rack and snail strike, recoil escapement, two lead weights and
pendulum, ht. 33 1/2 in.
$1,200-1,800
649.
Patent Variant Wall Clock, probably 20th century, with gilded pedestal
and rope molded frames enclosing reverse-painted glasses, the lower
depicting Neptune, the waist marked Patent and flanked by brass side
ornaments, painted iron dial with Arabic minutes around the perimeter,
Roman numeral hours shown by a recessed dial mounted behind,
eight-day time-only movement with lead weight and pendulum, ht. 40
in.
$1,000-1,500
650.
Mahogany Shelf Clock Marked Aaron Willard, Boston,
Massachusetts, c. 1830, scroll-top case with reverse-painted tablet
marked Aaron Willard, Boston over the 7 7/8 in. dia. concave painted
iron dial with Roman numerals, a looking glass in the lower section with
the case standing on brass paw feet, eight-day time-only weight-
powered movement with pendulum and cast iron weight, ht. 34 1/2 in.
$1,500-3,000
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649

651.
Gilt Empire Mirror Clock by Samuel Abbott, Boston, c. 1840, with
turned half columns, reverse-painted tablet over the painted iron dial
with Roman numerals and signed Saml. Abbott, Boston, looking glass,
eight-day “grand piano” timepiece with “Abbott-type” iron weight with
wire guides, pendulum and remains of printed maker’s label on
backboard, ht. 33 1/2 in.
$1,200-1,800

652.
Mahogany Mirror Clock, New Hampshire, c. 1835, with white pine
sides, scroll top and three brass finials, reverse-painted tablet over the
painted iron dial with Roman numerals, looking glass in lower section,
eight-day time, strike, and alarm movement powered by three lead
weights and regulated by a pendulum, ht. 41 3/4 in.
$2,000-3,000

653.
Girandole Wall Clock by Elmer Stennes, Weymouth, Massachusetts,
c. 1970, mahogany case with brass bezel over the 7 1/2 in. dia. painted
iron dial with Roman numerals and signed Elmer O. Stennes,
Weymouth, Mass., steel concentric circle hands, gilt frames enclosing
reverse-painted tablets, the waist tablet marked Patent, the lower
depicting and marked Aurora with carved and gilded pediment below,
eight-day time-only movement stamped Elmer O. Stennes, Weymouth,
Mass., pendulum and iron weight, ht. 44 in.
$4,000-6,000
652
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654.
Mahogany Girandole Timepiece, New England, 20th century, with
gilded rope molded frames enclosing reverse-paintings on glass, the
lower depicting and marked Commerce, the waist glass marked L.
Curtis, Concord, painted iron dial with Roman numerals, eight-day time-
only movement with pendulum and lead weight, ht. 44 in.
$1,500-2,500

655.
Unsigned Mahogany Patent Timepiece, New England, c. 1825, with
gilded rope molded frames enclosing reverse-painted glasses, the lower
depicting and marked Commerce, the waist glass marked Patent, iron
dial with Roman numerals, eight-day time-only movement with
pendulum and lead weight, ht. 40 3/4 in.
$800-1,200

656.
Mahogany “Empire” Mantel Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, 1909, with flat cornice top, carved neoclassical swag
below the dial, pierced brass side sound vents backed with fabric, 3/4
fluted columns flanking the 10 in. dia. “special” dial with raised Arabic
numerals, pierced decoration and inscribed Chelsea Clock Co. Boston,
U.S.A., serial number 35022, brass dial with beveled glass, eight-day
time and “house” strike movement with lever-escapement, ht. 24 1/2 in.

Note: According to a certificate issued by the Chelsea Clock Company,

May 8, 2008, this clock was shipped from the factory July 29, 1909
and sold to G.S. Kern. Copies of the document accompany the lot.
656 $2,500-4,500
657.
Chelsea Patent Timepiece or “Banjo” Clock, Chelsea,
Massachusetts, c. 1955, mahogany case with brass bezel over the
painted iron dial with Arabic numerals and marked Chelsea in script,
half round moldings framing reverse-painted glasses, the throat with
Federal shield, the lower depicting and marked Constitution and
Guerriere, lower carved pedestal below the box and eight-day time and
strike spring-powered “house strike” movement, ht. 41 in.
$600-800

658.
Neoclassical Gilt-brass Cartel Clock by Chelsea, the cast brass
case with urn surmounting the 4 1/4 in. porcelain dial marked E. F.
Caldwell & Co., New York, flanked by animal figure heads and garlands,
eight-day lever-escapement timepiece movement, ht. 20 in.
$3,000-5,000

659.
Clock and Barometer Desk Set by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
with “shaded old brass” finish, hinged bezels, 6 in. silvered brass dials,
the time dial with Arabic numerals marked Chelsea Ship’s Bell and
Hardy & Hayes Co., Pittsburgh over the eight-day lever-escapement
ship’s bell striking movement, holosteric barometer and thermometer
under beveled glass with brass and blued-steel hands, all on a base
with four ball feet, ht. 9 1/4 in.
$1,500-2,000

660.
Mahogany Tambour Mantel Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, 5 in. silvered dial with raised Arabic numerals, marked
Chelsea and Bigelow, Kennard & Co., Boston, and eight-day time and
“house” strike lever-escapement movement, ht. 10 in.
$300-500

657

661.
Chelsea Ship’s Bell Desk Clock, Boston, Massachusetts, the brass
case in a classic ship’s wheel design, 3 3/4 in. silvered brass dial with
Arabic numerals and marked Tilden-Thurber and Chelsea Ship’s Bell,
eight-day time and ship’s bell strike movement with lever-escapement,
ht. approximately 7 in.
$200-400
662.
Crystal Regulator Mantel Clock by Chelsea, Boston, Massachusetts,
with brass and beveled glass case, silvered dial with Arabic numerals
and marked Tiffany & Co., New York, eight-day time and “house” strike
lever-escapement movement, ht. 11 in.
$400-600
664.
“Centennial” Commemorative Edition Clock by Chelsea, Boston,
Massachusetts, the polished yellow brass 7 1/2 in. dia. case with
hinged bezel and marked on the back, Chelsea Clock Co. Centennial
Edition, 1897-1997, No. 0778, 6 in. dia. “Special Grand” silvered dial
with pierced center to view the escapement, raised Arabic numerals
and strike-silent, eight-day time and ship’s bell strike movement with
damascened plates and platform escapement, all on a mahogany base
with ball feet, ht. 9 1/4 in.
$700-900

663.
Mahogany Octagonal-top Mantel Clock by Waltham, Waltham,
Massachusetts, with brass bezel and beveled glass over the silvered
dial with Arabic numerals and marked Waltham, eight-day brass
“house” strike movement with platform escapement, ht. 9 1/2 in.
$100-150
665.
Mahogany “Banjo” Clock by Waltham, 5 in. Arabic numeral painted
dial signed Waltham, half-round moldings framing reverse-painted
tablets, the lower of two sailing ships, eight-day split-plate movement
with platform escapement stamped Waltham Watch Co. U.S.A., ht. 29
in.
$250-450
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666.
Nine-Month Duration Regulator Clock by J.J. LePaute, Paris, c.
1815, the figured mahogany case with full-length glazed door, 8 3/4 in.
silvered dial with Roman numerals, brass maker’s plate engraved J.J.
LePaute, equation of time indication with a blued-steel hand and
sunburst at the end against a brass calibrated sector engraved at the
extremes R and A, gilt hour and minute hands, blued-steel center
seconds hand all enclosed within a cast brass and fire-gilt bezel, a
geared calendar mechanism mounted below with silvered calibration
ring and crossings and a blued-steel pointer, nine-month duration, five-
train movement, dead-beat escapement with steel pallets, maintaining
power, geared calendar and equation of time cam, winding chain
connecting the movement with the winding mechanism and wooden
drums enclosed within the cornice where a small bell sounds at the
completion of winding, the iron weight is directed to fall outside of the
backboard, nine rod, bi-metallic, temperature compensating pendulum
and silvered indication plate engraved Dilation and Condensation, ht. 85
3/4 in.

Note: For a detailed technical description of this clock see National

Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Bulletin, February 1995,
“Merci, Monsieur LePaute,” by Peter Recourt.
$30,000-40,000
667.
Walnut Veneered Marquetry Longcase Clock by William Jourdain,
London, c. 1750, the sarcophagus top with blind fretwork backed by
fabric, arched and glazed hood door flanked by flat inlaid columns
capped with brass, tombstone-shaped waist door with cast brass
decoration on pendulum aperture and flanked by chamfered corners,
the base with canted corners, cove molding and ball feet, 12 in. brass
dial, moon’s age in the arch surmounted by the engraved name boss
William Jourdain, London, silvered Roman chapter ring with half and
quarter-hour marks, matted center and ringed winding holes, seconds
bit and recessed date, applied cast brass spandrels, eight-day, brass,
five-pillar, two-hammer, two-bell “Dutch striking” movement powered by
two brass-cased weights and regulated by an iron pendulum rod and
brass bob with calibrated regulating nut, ht. 99 in.
$7,000-9,000

668.
Mahogany Longcase Clock by George Eveleigh, Beaminster, United
Kingdom, c. 1800, the pierced scroll-top case with serpentine-shaped
hood door over the composite brass dial with spandrels, decoratively 670 with detail views
engraved center and signed Geo. Eveleigh, Beaminster with rocking
ship automata in the arch, waist door with serpentine top, all on a flat
molded base, eight-day movement with rack and snail strike and recoil
escapement powered by two lead weights, ht. 91 in.
$800-1,200

669.
Oak and Mahogany Longcase Clock by Thomas Radford, Leeds, c.
1800, with scroll top and brass rosettes, arched and glazed hood door
over the composite brass dial with silvered chapter ring with Roman
numerals, engraved center and signed Thos. Radford, Leeds, classical
urn engraved on the boss in the arch, banded mahogany inlay
contrasting with oak case, all on a bracket foot base, eight-day rack
and snail strike movement with two iron weights and pendulum, ht. 91
in.
$1,200-1,600
670.
Brass Grande Sonnerie Table Clock by Joseph Rose & Son,
London, probably last quarter 19th century, engraved hexagonal dial
plate with applied chapter ring and Roman numerals, pierced steel
hands, six glazed openings around the sides to view the movement,
cast classical busts and double-headed eagle feet, hinged underside
with two bells opens to reveal the bottom plate engraved Joseph Rose
et Son London, pierced balance cock, three bell hammers and silvered
regulator dial, one-day crown wheel and verge escapement movement
with chain fusee and engraved barrels, ht. 3 1/2, max. dial wd. 4 3/4 in.
$3,000-5,000
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671.
Brass “Winged” Lantern Clock with Alarm by Richard Ames,
London, c. 1675, applied Roman numeral chapter ring with quarter-
and half-hour markings, central alarm disk with Arabic numerals, dial
plate engraved with tulips and signed Rich. Ames near St Andrews
Church in Holborn fecit, single steel hand, applied pierced frets, turned
finials and bell mounted above, thirty-hour posted frame movement with
time train at the front, strike train with count-wheel behind and alarm
train at the back, crown wheel and verge escapement with pendulum
between the trains, hook and spike for wall mounting, all powered by
three weights, ht. 15 1/2 in.

Literature: Loomes, Brian, The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain, p.

53, lists Richard Ames as an apprentice of Peter Closen 1648/49-1655,
died c. 1682, widow Katherine continued the business.
$2,500-4,500

672
672.
Elm and Mahogany Alarm and Repeating Table Clock by Jno.
Wady, London, c. 1765, the stepped base with mahogany inlay,
molded cornice top supported by four freestanding columns, unusual
sliding glazed door over the 6 in. composite brass dial, silvered chapter 674
ring with Roman numerals, oval name boss engraved Jno. Wady
London, mock pendulum aperture, alarm setting disc at the base of the
blued-steel hands, matted center, day-of-the-month dial in the arch,
cast brass spandrels and eight-day, time and alarm, verge escapement
movement with quarter and hour repeat on command on a nest of
seven bells, two alarm hammers, fully engraved backplate and short
bob pendulum, ht. 12 3/4 in.
$3,000-5,000

673.
Ebonized Table Clock by William Broad, London, c. 1810, the oak
dome-top case with brass beading and carrying handle, front door over
the 8 in. dia. convex dial with Roman numerals and signed Will. Broad,
London, pierced brass side vents backed by fabric, eight-day time and
strike fusee movement with bell strike, engraved back plate and
pendulum, ht. 18 1/2 in.
$800-1,200

674.
Ebonized Table Clock by William Haycock, Ashbourne, 20th century,
the 17th century style oak case with caddy top, brass carrying handle
and mounts, glazed door over the 7 in. composite brass dial, silvered
chapter ring with Roman numerals, quarter, half and minute markings
and signed Haycock Ashbourne, matted center with ringed winding
holes, blued-steel hands and cherub spandrels, eight-day time and hour 677
strike brass fusee movement with backplate signed by maker, anchor
escapement, rack and snail strike and rear-mounted pendulum, ht. 15
in.
$1,000-1,500

675.
Mahogany Dial Clock by James Manning, Chichester, with brass
bezel over the 14 in. sheet brass engraved dial with Roman numerals
and signed James Manning, Chichester, eight-day time and strike fusee
movement with brass pendulum bob and flat rod, ht. 17 in.
$800-1,200

676.
Mahogany Veneered Quarter-striking Table Clock, probably Austria,
early 19th century, the large cove-molded base supporting the 5 in. dia.
enameled dial with Arabic numerals and engine-turned bezel, lion’s
head carrying handles, pagoda top with eagle finial and eight-day
spring-powered unmarked movement with silk thread suspension, 1-2-
3-4 note quarters and hour on separate gong, ht. 24 in.
$600-800

677.
Hour-Striking Bedside Table Clock, France, 19th century, with
skeletonized rotating chapter ring illuminating the time by the lighted
candle at the back, gilt-brass mounts and stand, removable side
panels, eight-day single mainspring movement striking the hours by a
vertically mounted rack, crown wheel and verge escapement with silk-
thread-suspended pendulum, ht. 13 1/2 in.
$2,500-3,500

678. 678
Rosewood Bracket Clock, c. 1880, with removable pagoda top,
kidney-shaped front door with gilt ormolu, enameled dial with Roman
numerals and recessed center, serpentine hands, eight-day time and
strike movement with recoil escapement and bell strike, ht. 26 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
 679
679.
Perpetual Calendar Clock by A. Pendesini, 20th century, with figure-
eight-shaped dial engraved A. Pendesini, Fecit, the upper timekeeping
portion with outer minutes, subsidiary dials for the hours on left and
seconds on right, the lower calendar section with day-of-the-week, day-
of-the-month, month-of-the-year, and sector dials marked Alba and
Tramonto, spring-powered timepiece movement with pin wheel
escapement mounted on the back plate with bi-metallic pendulum rod
and cylindrical bob, enclosed in a Plexiglas case and glass dome, ht. 55
in.
$2,500-3,500
680.
Three French Clock Movement Test Stands, including a cherry
example with wooden turn screw, a Victorian cast iron example with
decorative base and three feet, and a 20th century example made of
steel rod stock.
$200-300
681.
Lot of Tall Clock Movements and Dials, including two eight-day and
three thirty-hour brass movements, 12 in. and 13 in. painted iron arch
dials, two 11 in. square dials, one a brass component one-handed dial,
the other a painted dial, (incomplete, for parts only).
$100-150
683
682.
Four 19th Century Brass Clock Movements, England, including two
tall clock movements, one with latched plates and pinwheel anchor
escapement, the other with iron “Wilson” back plate, and two spring-
powered fusee bracket clock movements, one with engraved backplate.
$200-400
683.
Didactic Dental Model of a Human Skull, Kilgore International,
Coldwater, Michigan, the anatomically correct model with removable
sections of the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital bones, hinged
jaw with cut-away section to reveal the teeth and principal nerves, all in
a fitted carrying case.
$800-1,200
684.
Mould Guide 20th Century Solila Vulcanite Teeth, Dentist Supply
Company, New York, a two-tiered, individually numbered, boxed set of
sample tooth molds of various anatomical forms, (complete), box 15 x
12 1/2 in.
$200-400
685.
Coin Silver Spring Action Fleam by Reinhardt & Co., Baltimore, with
sliding cover stamped with maker’s name, spring loaded blade with
trigger activation and original folding leather carrying case, lg. 2 in.
$800-1,200
684 687
686.
Brass Fleam and Carrying Case, unmarked, with sliding cover, spring-
loaded trigger-activated blade, and leather-lined wooden carrying case,
lg. 2 in.
$100-150
687.
Two Early Bronze Mortar and Pestles, one possibly 12th century,
Italy, the first a vase-shaped bowl cast with winged warriors and shields
with a bell-shaped pestle with fluted handle, ht. 3; and one with a cup-
shaped mortar with side handles, ribbed decoration on the rim, pin-
shaped pestle with ceramic base, ht. 4 1/2 in.
Note: The first of these is closely related to an example in the Griffin
Collection of Antique Mortars & Pestles, Franklin, New Hampshire.
$500-700
688.
Box of Prepared Medical Microscopy Slides, late 19th century, with
approximately 100 slides, labeled on the slide and on the itemized
listing inside the lid, box 11 x 7 in.
$200-400
689.
Boxed Set of Ophthalmology Lenses, consisting of approximately
150 concave, convex, spherical, and cylindrical lenses, numbered and
arranged by category.
$200-400
690.
Pocket Microscope by M. Pillischer, London, No. 76, with eyepiece
on a brass limb marked N. 76. and height adjusted focus by knurled
thumbscrew below, anodized metal frame for specimen slide or
magnifier marked in script Invented by M. Pillischer, Optician & etc.,
London, additional eyepieces and slides all in a fitted carrying case, lg.
of microscope 3 in.
$200-300
691.
Compound Microscope by Spencer, Buffalo, New York, with U-
shaped foot marked Dr. Ruth Rabinovitch, jointed limb, planar mirror,
substage condenser, stage with rack slide holder adjustment, three
objectives on revolving nosepiece and carrying case, ht. approximately
15 in.
$100-200
692.
Compound Microscope by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company,
Rochester, New York, black and lacquered brass finish with U-shaped
stand, substage diaphragm condenser, stage with slide clips, three
objectives on nosepiece, rack focus and calibrated eyepiece tube, ht.
fully extended 14 3/4 in.
$150-250
693 695

693.
Brass Compound Microscope by E. Leitz, Wetzlar, Germany, No.
17326, the lacquered brass instrument with U-shaped base marked at
the back E. Leitz Wetzlar No. 17326, jointed limb, rack focus, revolving
nosepiece, circular stage with thumbscrew adjustment, planar mirror
and condenser, all in a fitted mahogany box with carrying handle and
additional eyepieces, ht. 12 1/2 in.
$300-500

694.
Lacquered Brass Compound Microscope by Anderson, London, c.
1870, the bar limb “Y” base marked Anderson London at the back,
jointed limb with rack coarse and fine focus and 7 1/2 in. main tube,
square stage with rack two-way adjustment, condenser and planar
mirror, all in a hardwood case with additional eyepieces and threaded
cannisters for storage, ht. approximately 16 in.
$600-800

695.
Brass Compound Microscope by E. Leitz, Wetzlar, Germany, the
lacquered brass frame with U-shaped base marked E. Leitz, Wetzlar,
No. 49933, inclinable limb joint, rack focus, revolving nosepiece, square
stage with specimen clips, planar mirror and condenser, all in a fitted
mahogany box with carrying handle, ht. of instrument 12 in.
$250-450

694
696.
Two Brass and Steel Microscopes by Spencer, Buffalo, New York,
with U-shaped stands, jointed limbs, planar mirrors, diaphragm
substage condensers, two objectives on revolving nosepiece, rack
focus and calibrated eyepiece tube, ht. 13 in.
$150-250
697.
Binocular Microscope by the Perlometer Corporation, New York,
the iron U-shaped base marked Reichert Austria No. 77813, rack focus,
rectangular stage, electric condenser and fitting, all on a wooden base,
ht. 14 in.
$200-400
698.
Brass Beam Balance, with four brass weights, on grained wood base,
ht. 15 in.
$200-300
699.
Analytical Balance by Wm. Ainsworth & Sons, Inc., Denver,
Colorado, anodized iron and glass case with black marble stage, central
brass pillar with maker’s plate at the base with maker’s name and Type
DLB No. 16604, two pans suspended on agate knife edges and steel
ribbon read-out, all on four turned brass feet, ht. 19 1/4, lg. 17 1/2, dp.
9 in.
$200-300
700.
Countertop Scale, Germany, with cast iron base, zinc pan, and 5 in.
dia. enameled dial calibrated in grams and kilos marked Gloria Familien
Waage D.R.P. K.K. priv., ht. 12 in.
$100-150
701.
“Force 50K” Cast Iron and Two-Pan Brass Balance, cast iron frame
with cast mark Force 50K, round and square brass pans and eight
round weights, lg. 40, ht. 16 in.
$150-250
702.
Brass and Iron Balance Scale by Cornelius Kahlen, New York, late
19th century, the three-foot iron stand with leveling screw supports the
brass quadrant scale signed by maker at the top and calibrated in two
segments 0-125, and pivoted cupped specimen holder with keystone
read-out, ht. 23 1/2 in.
Note: This specialized scale was possibly used by the U.S.
Government to test currency paper.
$200-300
703.
Three Boxed Scales, America, early 20th century, two balance screw
scales, one brass one nickel-plated; and a gold scale marked H.
KOHLBUSCH NEW YORK, with whalebone details; box lg. to 6 1/4 in.
$150-200
704.
Two Boxed Scales Sets and a Set of Apothecary Weights, England
and Spain, 19th/20th century, the scales with fitted interiors, the nesting
apothecary weights labeled “GRAMOS,” weights dia. 2, boxes lg. 4 1/4,
5 in.
$150-200
705.
Cased Eight-Piece Drafting Set, 19th century, with hinged brass and
steel compass having three attachments, a bone-handled pair of steel
tweezers with thumbscrew tightener, a brass protractor, another brass
and steel tool, a folding wood ruler and a wood gauge, (case hinge
broken), case lg. 7 in.
$200-400
706.
Two Wood and Brass Drafting Tools, 20th century, the first a T-square
mounted with brass, the second a scribing device with adjustable
turned wood rings having thumbscrew tighteners and long steel points
for marking, lg. 39 1/2 (1m), 9 3/4 in., respectively.
$100-150
707.
Telegraph Transmitting Device and Bunnell Sounder, weight-
powered, lacquered brass mechanism mounted on an oak stand with
telegraph key marked J.H. Bunnell & Co., NY, ht. of stand 37 1/2 in.
$400-600
708.
Five Objects of Science and Technology, including a watchmaker’s
staking set and carrying case, a Cotton Type MKII Range Finder by E.R.
Watts & Son, London, a magnetic Dipping Needle with instructions, a
boxed set of brass graduated apothecary weights and a Weston Direct-
Reading Voltmeter, Newark, New Jersey with hardwood case and
original printed label inscribed January 15, 1900.
$200-300
709.
4-foot Wooden Demonstration Slide Rule by Picket, c. 1970, yellow
painted laminated wooden rule with black numerals, sliding Plexiglas
cursor with aluminum brackets, lg. 48 in.
$150-250
710.
Cleaver Improved Protractor by William J. Young & Sons,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the brass drafting instrument with pierced
spandrels and signed on the backplate in script, Young & Sons,
Philada. PA, the rotating center carries a silver scale calibrated 0-360
degrees, compass directions in block lettering and vernier with knurled
thumbscrew adjustment, 6 1/2 in. square.
$250-450
711.
Brass Graphometer, unmarked, the 3 in. radius half circle divided 0-
180 degrees in two complimentary scales, the alidade with two verniers
marked 0-30 minutes, mounted sighting vanes and recessed compass
with printed paper card and steel pointer, ht. 7 1/2 in.
$300-600
712.
Brass Spectrometer on Iron Stand, unmarked, probably France, c.
1900, three brass observation tubes in lengths varying from 5-10 in.,
central rock crystal, brass column support on three iron legs, ht. 12 in.
$800-1,200
 714.
Lacquered Brass Goniometer by James W. Queen & Company,
Philadelphia, c. 1890, a heavy iron three-legged stand with leveling feet
supporting a central rotating platform with verniers, magnifiers, and
engraved James W. Queen & Co., Societe Genevoise a Genève, upper
calibrated stage also with vernier, dual 12 in. observation scopes and
optics supported on brass columns with index, ht. 15 1/2 in.
$800-1,200

715.
Polarimeter on Stand by Laurent, Paris, c. 1890, with painted 24 in.
steel cover for the enclosed brass observation tube, 8 in. dia. geared
plate marked Polarimetre-Laurent and Laurent... on the vernier
adjustment arm, two additional observation tubes, horizontal adjustment
on the brass column support, all on three cast iron legs, ht.
approximately 24 in.
$600-800

716.
712 Brass, Steel, and Oak Beam Compass by S. J. Gurney, brass
adjustable slides with knurled thumbscrews and sharpened steel
pointers running on an oak beam stamped at both ends S. J. Gurney,
used to measure and transfer larger dimensions than a traditional
compass, lg. 33 in.
$150-250

717.
Brass Polar Plani Meter, tracer arm with stamped conversion factors,
measuring wheel with vernier and worm gear drive to main dial all in a
felt line hinged case, lg. of instrument 9 3/4 in.
$100-200

718.
Brass Dip Needle by P. J. Kipp & Son, Holland, with silvered half
moon scale calibrated 45-80 degrees on each limb, one marked with
maker’s name, finely balanced needle pointer mounted on an axle
above a brass tube, all on a mahogany mount, ht. with needle
horizontal 9 1/2 in.
$100-200
713

719.
Three Glassware Science Lab Items, including a bell jar and two tall
beakers, ht. 17 1/2-20 1/2 in.
$150-250

720.
F. Hellige & Co. Optial Measure, Germany, the hardwood case with
hinged top and enclosed prism and viewing ports, ht. 6 in.
$100-150

721.
Student Spectrometer, unmarked c. 1900, with dual 10 in. observation
scopes, one with inclination adjustment both with brass mounting
columns and mounted on a board, ht. 12 in.
714 $150-250

713.
Brass Student Spectrometer, unmarked, c. 1890, with three 5 in.
brass observation tubes and optics, prism mounted on the circular
brass plate stamped G13, cast iron support column and three legs, ht.
9 1/2 in.
$150-250
722.
Experimental Magnet by Radiguet and Massiot, Paris, late 19th
century, the hinged mahogany wall mounted case with glazed aperture
opens to reveal a 6 in. horseshoe magnet with internal sliding mirror and
provision for electrical wiring attachment, ht. 14 in.
$200-300

724
723.
Protracting Parallel Rule, William Helffricht, Philadelphia, the parallel
rule with “S” hinges, lower section with engraved index, the upper
engraved Wm. Helffricht Maker Philada, protractor engraved with
degrees and index arm with vernier, maximum lg. 11 1/2 in.
$400-600
715
723
724.
Lacquered Brass Pantograph by W. & S. Jones, 30 Holborn,
London, c. 1800, with brass pivoted arms, one signed W. & S. Jones
30 Holborn London, other limbs with graduated scales and marked in
block letters B, C and D with corresponding adjustable pen holders, six
neatly turned ivory rollers and central weighted support and fitted
dovetailed mahogany box, lg. 30 in.
Note: Gloria Clifton, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers,
1550-1851, p. 155, lists William and Samuel Jones as “philosophical,
mathematical and optical instrument makers at the Archimedes, No. 30,
Lower Holborn, London,” 1800-1860. The fine detail of the instrument
and its carrying case suggests manufacture in the early part of this
partnership.
$800-1,200
 725
726
725.
Brass Heliostat by R. Fuess, Berlin, the 6 in. dia. lead-filled brass
base engraved in script R. Fuess Berlin and faintly stamped Dept. 213,
three leveling screws, clockwork driven equatorial mount with semi-
circular scale calibrated 0-30 and 0-90, weighted and adjustable stage
for the 18 1/2 x 6 in. planar beveled mirror, approximate ht. as shown
11 in.
$1,000-1,500
726.
Boxed Brass Surveying Compass and Chains by Meneely &
Oothout, West-Troy, New York, 6 1/2 in. dia. silvered brass dial signed
Meneely & Oothout, West-Troy, N.Y., fleur-de-lis at North, cardinal points
in block letters and marked No. 846 Warranted, shaped limb with “T”
vials, screw-on sights and tripod mounts in a fitted mahogany box with
3 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. maker’s label inside the lid stating in part Church Bells
and Town Clocks Meneely & Oothout, West-Troy, N.Y., together with
iron survey chains.
$600-800
727.
Brass Surveying Vernier Compass by Brown and Hunt, New York, 5
1/2 in. dia. silvered brass engraved dial signed Brown & Hunt, New
York, fleur-de-lis at North, other cardinal points in block lettering, needle
ring engraved 0-90 in four quadrants, central engraved ribband, blued-
steel needle, limbs with vernier adjustment dial and thumbscrew, “T”
vials, screw-on sights and ball head tripod attachment, lg. 15 in.
$500-700
728.
Brass Surveying Compass, E. & G. W. Blunt, New York, with 6 1/2 in.
dia. silvered brass dial signed E.& G.W. Blunt, New York, fleur-de-lis at
North and cardinal point in block letters, outer needle ring engraved 0-
90 in four quadrants, engraved central ribband, blued-steel hand and
brass lifter, shaped limbs, vial, tripod mount and brass dial cover, lg. 16
in.
$300-500
 727
728
729
729.
Brass Miniature Military Theodolite by Neuhoffer & Son, Wein,
Germany, 6 in. scope with silvered vertical scale and vernier, calibrated
horizontal scale, tripod mount and fitted, felt-lined leather case and
carrying strap, ht. of interior of case 7 in.
$1,200-1,800
730.
Builders’ Transit-Level by Keuffel & Esser Company, the anodized
instrument with 11 3/4 in. telescope, silvered horizontal and vertical
scales with vernier read-outs, spirit level, tripod mount base, oak
carrying case with Keuffel & Esser Co. card and instructions and a
wooden tripod, instrument ht. of instrument only 9 in.
$300-400
731.
Brass Surveyor’s Compass by James Reed & Company, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, with 6 1/2 in. dia. silvered brass dial signed James Reed
& Co. Pittsburg Pa No.456, bearings in block lettering, needle ring
calibrated 0-90 in four quadrants, blued-steel hand, screw-on sights
and brass cover, lg. 14 1/2, ht. 10 in.
$400-600
732.
French Four-Vane Surveying Instrument, with 2 1/2 in. dia. silvered
horizontal dial calibrated 0-360 and marked B T E and S.G.D.G., four
hinged sighting vanes and ball joint leveling mount, ht. 12 1/2 in.
$300-500
733
 733 detail view
733.
Brass Surveyor’s Compass by Chandlee & Holloway, Baltimore, c.
1819-1822, 5 3/4 in. dia. engraved brass dial with stylized fleur-de-lis at
North, signed in the southern quadrant Chandlee & Holloway and
Baltimore within the 3/4 in. dia. dial marked P at the north end,
calibrated 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 240, 280, and 320 around the
perimeter and with recessed rotating dial with Arabic numerals and
brass moon hand, eight-point rose with cardinal points in block
lettering, North and South unmarked, silvered needle dial calibrated 0-
90 in four quadrants, blued-steel fleur-de-lis needle and brass keeper,
shaped limbs with vials in decoratively engraved holders, screw-on
sights stamped 4 and walnut carrying case, lg. of instrument 14 3/4 in.
Literature: Charles E. Smart, The Makers of Surveying Instruments in
America since 1700, pp. 26-28.
$4,000-6,000
734.
Brass Surveyor’s Compass, unsigned, probably America, with 6 1/2
in. dia. engraved brass dial with compass rose and fleur-de-lis at North,
needle ring calibrated 0-90 in four quadrants, blued-steel hand, the limb
with vernier adjustment and screw-on sights, all on a custom turned
brass display stand, lg. 15, ht. 9 1/2 in.
$400-600
735.
Brass Circumferentor by James White, with 6 in. silvered dial
engraved James White, Glasgow, fleur-de-lis at North, East and West
points reversed, needle ring calibrated in individual degrees 0-90
through four quadrants, polished steel needle with lifter, two vials and a
circular bubble level, the compass box mounted on short arm with staff
mount and folding sights, lg. 9 x ht. 10 3/4, (re-lacquered), in dovetailed
mahogany case with label in lid: By Appointment to the University,
James White, Optician, Mathematical & Philosophical Instrument Maker.
209 Saughiehall St. & 16, 18 Cambridge St., Glasgow, case wd. 9 1/2
in.
$500-700
736.
French Brass Surveyor’s Cross, the shaft with ball radial adjustment
supports an octagonal head section with slit sighting apertures at 45
and 90 degrees capped by a glass spirit level, with mahogany box, ht.
8 3/4 in.
$250-350
 737
738
737.
Walnut and Brass Vernier Surveyor’s Compass Attributed to
Benjamin Hanks, Connecticut, late 18th century, 6 in. dia. engraved
paper card with fleur-de-lis at North, outer perimeter of card and
silvered needle ring scale calibrated 0-90 in four quadrants, engraved
center with blued-steel needle on a brass lifter arm, beaded brass
bezel, mahogany limb with bone and brass vernier and adjustment
screw on the underside, CF stamped on one end, screw-on brass
sights and the lower portion of the walnut carrying case, lg. 16 in.
$1,000-1,500
738.
Early Brass Surveyor’s Compass Attributed to Dodd, America, late
18th century, 6 in. dia. silvered dial with compass rose, calibrated
needle ring 0-90 in four quadrants, blued-steel hand with brass lifter,
brass half-moon scale calibrated 0-50 in two directions with brass
spade hand, brass limb with sprit levels and tripod collar, lg. 15 in.
$1,000-1,500
739.
Brass Miner’s Dial by Hall Brothers, with silvered 4 1/2 in. dial
engraved Hall Bros., Clerkenwell, London, 1926, two inset vials, East
and West points reversed, divided 0-90 in four quadrants, needle ring
calibrated 0-360, polished steel needle with lifter operated by screw at
the side, gimbal-mounted compass box with silvered vernier, 2 1/2 in.
inclinometer dial engraved Diff. of Hypo. & Base, threaded tripod mount,
and screw-on standards supporting 13 in. lg. focusing telescope with
vial below, lg. 13 3/4 x ht. 7 in. level, (lacquer removed).
$600-800
740.
Architectural Plan of the Boot Cotton Mills, 1897, the plan laid on
linen and showing the buildings of the Boot Cotton Mill on the
Merrimack River, together with a survey book with drawings and details
for the Office of Proprietors of Locks and Canals on the Merrimack
River.
$400-600
741.
Brass Gimbaled Surveyor’s Compass by Davis & Son, London &
Derby, 5 in. dia. silvered dial signed Davis & Son London & Derby No.
269, quadrant bearings in block letters and two inset spirit levels,
needle ring calibrated 0-360 by degrees, steel hand, thumbscrew
vernier adjustment, gimbal locking latch and 3/4 in. dial silvered dial
marked Davis’s Improved Arc and calibrated on two scales 0-90, and
hinged sighting vanes, lg. 11 1/2, ht. 8 in.
$300-500

742.
Surveyor’s Cross by W. F. Stanley, London, the 3 1/2 in. dia. brass
drum engraved W. F. Stanley 4&5 Gt Turnstile London WC., inset silver
scale below calibrated 0-360, compass bearings in block letters against
a black background, silvered needle ring calibrated 0-360 degrees and
sighting slots every 90 degrees, ht. 7 3/8 in.
$250-450

743.
Singing Bird Music Box Automaton, attributed to Griesbaum, with
going barrel movement, bird with yellow, blue, and green plumage,
moving head, beak, wings, and tail in an enameled case with pastoral
scene with figures, sheep and marked on the bottom Tiffany & Co.,
(lacking a key), wd. 4 in.
$2,000-3,000

744.
Gold-filled Musical Watch Fob, Switzerland, late 19th century, the
serpentine-shaped case with scrolls and leafage decoration, stem wind,
and 12-tooth single comb musical box marked Made in Switzerland,
approximately 1 x 7/8 in.
$300-500

745.
Edison Standard Phonograph, Orange New Jersey, serial #S107147,
oak dome lid case with Edison Standard Phonograph decal on front
and top carrying handle, pin-striping on iron plate with maker’s plaque
and inscribed Thomas A. Edison Trade Mark together with
approximately thirty-five cylinder records including Edison Gold Molded
Records, Edison Blue Amberol Record, Oxford Cylinder Record and 747
Columbia Phonograph Company examples.
$200-250

746.
Mahogany Victrola by the Victor Talking Machine Company,
Camden, New Jersey, Model VV-XVI, triple spring motor, reproducer
marked Victor Improved Concert mahogany dome-top cabinet with
hinged lid and Victrola decal, brass maker and retailer plaques, leaf
carved corners, two sets of cabinet doors for record and component
storage, printed license sticker on the back dated May 1912, on
casters, ht. 49 in.
$300-500
747.
Walnut Street Piano with Jazz Band Automata, Continental, c. 1880,
the front sliding panel with painted card male figure raises to reveal the
strings, sixteen hammers and nest of three bells, the lower section with
pinned wooden barrel and worm gear which rotates the barrel and
activates the eight automata figures playing in a jazz band (lacking one
figure) while the operator turns the wooden handled crank, ht. 31 3/4 in.
$3,000-5,000
748.
Six-Air Interchangeable Ideal Piccolo Cylinder Musical Box by
Mermod Frères, Switzerland, serial #52358, last patent date 1887,
bookmatched mahogany veneered cabinet with ebonized moldings,
quarter-fans, line inlays, and lower drawer for cylinder storage, the lid
opens to reveal the Ideal Piccolo card stating “Any number of Cylinders
can be obtained for this box,” nickel plated movement with Jacot’s
Patented Safety Check, zither attachment, seven 11 in. cylinders with
selections including “The Star Spangled Banner,” “Oh! Christmas Tree,”
“I wish I were in Dixie,” and “Columbia the Gem of the Ocean,” original
printed directions and a low table and storage drawer for additional
cylinders, box lg. 31 1/2 in.
$2,500-3,500
749.
Oak Cased Roller Organ by Autophone Company, Ithaca, New York,
twenty-note organette marked on top Chautauqua Roller Organ, glazed
and hinged lid to access the 6 1/2 in. wooden cobs, front wooden
handle crank and sixteen additional cobs, ht. 13 in.
$300-500

748
752
750.
Model A Edison Triumph Phonograph, serial #40145, in the “new
style” oak domed lid case with Edison Triumph Phonograph transfer
banner on front and top carrying handle, iron bed with pin striping and
marked Thomas A. Edison Trade Mark, spring motor with shaving
attachment and Model C reproducer, brass horn, stand and two boxes
of cylinder records.
$300-500
751.
Swiss Eight-Air Cylinder Musical Box, the mahogany case with
unmarked tune sheet, 6 1/4 in. cylinder, single comb, eight air
movement with tune selector, three bells with butterfly hammers and
lever-wind, lg. 18 3/4., ht. 8 3/4 in.
$200-400
752.
9-inch Disc Musical Box by B.H. Abrams, Retailed by Harper & Co.
Newmarket, the grain-painted cabinet with faux banded and line inlays,
side carrying handles and The Imperial stenciled under the lid, single
comb, crank wound movement cast The Imperial on iron bed plate,
half- and full-speed regulator, together with five discs (surface tarnish).
$300-500
753.
11-inch Regina Disc Musical Box, the mahogany cabinet with print of
young musicians under the lid, single comb, front lever-wind machine
and one 11 in. zinc disc marked Regina and Hella Templ March Liberati.
$300-500
754.
Rosewood-grained Inlaid Musical Box, Switzerland, late 19th century,
playing ten airs, with printed song card affixed inside, (inlay missing,
paint wear, other imperfections), ht. 5 1/4, wd. 17, dp. 8 1/2 in.
$150-250
755.
Cylinder Musical Box by Mermod Frères, No. 56091, playing ten airs,
with two-part comb, double-spring motor, butterfly-wing governor, tune
select and safety check, in rosewood veneered case with kingwood
borders and inlaid lid, wd. 28, cylinder 16 in., (spring defective, lacking
garnet and controls, non-running, lid off).
$400-600
756.
Eight-Air Cylinder Musical Box, Switzerland, the figured mahogany
case with line inlays and ebonized trim, with 6 1/4 in. cylinder, single
comb, tune selection and lever-wind, lg. of box 16 in.
$200-300
757.
Six-Air 8-inch Cylinder Musical Box, Switzerland, serial #9741, the
rosewood case with line and marquetry inlays, the top with bird on a
floral branch, tune sheet listing selections including “I’m Called the
Forest Flower,” “The Star of Love Serenade,” and “The Grecian Band,”
single-comb movement with change mechanism and lever-wind, lg. of
box 16 in.
$200-300
758.
15 1/2-inch Corona Automatic Changer Music Box by Regina,
Rahway, New Jersey, c. 1900 the mahogany upright case with
removable shell and leaf carved crest, bowfront glazed door flanked by
freestanding barley twist columns, apron and cabriole legs with shelf
stretcher, original paper on interior, dual comb twelve-disc auto change
mechanism with twenty-six discs, ht. 68 in.
Note: Deaccessioned from the National Watch and Clock Museum,
Columbia, Pennsylvania, to benefit the Museum Acquisitions Fund.
$8,000-12,000
759.
Six-Air Interchangeable Ideal Piccolo Cylinder Musical Box by
Mermod Frères, Switzerland, serial #44664, bookmatched mahogany
veneered cabinet with ebonized moldings, quarter fans, line inlays, and
lower drawer for cylinder storage, the lid opens to reveal the Ideal
Piccolo card stating “Any number of Cylinders can be obtained for this
box,” nickel plated single comb movement with Jacot’s Patented Safety
Check, zither attachment and three 11 in. cylinders, box lg. 30 1/2 in.
$1,200-1,800

758
760.
Eight-Air Sublime Harmonie Musical Box by Mermod Frères,
Switzerland, serial #40032, the mahogany veneered box with banded
veneer, line and marquetry inlays with lid opening to reveal the tune
sheet listing eight selections including “The Wedding March,” “The Last
Rose of Summer,” and “My Queen Waltz,” nickel plated movement with
11 in. cylinder, two-part comb, Jacot’s Patented Safety Check and
Change-Repeat selection dial, box lg. 25 1/4 in.
$400-600
759
760
761
761.
Twelve-Air Cylinder Musical Box by Langdorff & Fils, Switzerland,
rosewood veneered case with banded, line and marquetry, the lid with
musical theme, 13 in. cylinder, single comb, zither attachment, tune
selection indicator and lever-wind movement playing twelve airs
including “The Wedding March” by Mendelssohn, “Old Hundred,” and
“Sweet By and By” as indicated on the reproduction tune sheet
attached under the lid, lg. of box 22 1/4 in.
$600-800
END OF SALE
 Skinner, Inc. - Conditions of Sale
1. Some of the lots in this sale are offered subject to a reserve. The reserve is a confidential minimum price agreed upon by the consignor and
Skinner, Inc. below which the lot will not be sold. In most cases, the reserve will be set below the estimated range, but in no case will it exceed
the estimates listed. A representative of Skinner, Inc. will execute such reserves by bidding for the consignor. In any event and whether or not a
lot is subject to a reserve, the auctioneer may reject any bid or raise not commensurate with the value of such lot.

2. All property is sold “as is,” and neither the auctioneer nor any consignor makes any warranties or representation of any kind or nature with
respect to the property, and in no event shall they be responsible for the correctness, nor deemed to have made any representation or warranty, of
description, genuineness, authorship, attribution, provenance, period, culture, source, origin, or condition of the property and no statement made
at the sale, or in the bill of sale, or invoice or elsewhere shall be deemed such a warranty of representation or an assumption of liability.

3. Except as provided in paragraph 1 above, the highest bidder as determined by the auctioneer shall be the purchaser. In the case of a disputed
bid, the auctioneer shall have sole discretion in determining the purchaser and may also, at his or her election, withdraw the lot or reoffer the lot
for sale.

4. All merchandise purchased must be paid for and removed from the premises the day of the auction. Skinner Inc. may impose, and the
purchaser agrees to pay, a monthly interest charge of 1.5% of the purchase price of any lot or item lot not paid for within thirty-five (35) days of
the date of sale.

Skinner, Inc. shall have no liability for any damage or loss to property left on its premises for more than three (3) days from the date of sale. If
any property has not been removed within three (3) days from the date of sale, at the option of Skinner, Inc. (a) Skinner Inc., may impose, and
the purchaser agrees to pay, a monthly storage charge of 1.5% of the purchase price of any lot or portion of a lot not removed within the three
days, and/or (b) Skinner Inc. may place the merchandise in a subsequent auction, without Reserve, to be sold to the highest bidder, and after
deducting the standard commission and any additional charges that may apply, remit the proceeds to the purchaser.

5. Skinner accepts cash or check for payment. Personal checks will be acceptable only if credit has been established with Skinner, Inc. or if a bank
authorization has been received guaranteeing a personal check. Skinner, Inc. reserves the right to hold merchandise purchased by personal check
until the check has cleared the bank. The purchaser agrees to pay Skinner, Inc. a handling charge of $25.00 for any check dishonored by the
drawee. Please contact Accounting for additional payment methods. Skinner does not accept payment by credit card for merchandise purchases.

6. If the purchaser breaches any of its obligations under these Conditions of Sale, including its obligation to pay in full the purchase price of all
items for which it was the highest successful bidder, Skinner Inc. may exercise all of its rights and remedies under the law including, without
limitation, (a) canceling the sale and applying any payments made by the purchaser to the damages caused by the purchaser’s breach, and/or (b)
offering at public auction, without reserve, any lot or item for which the purchaser has breached any of its obligations, including its obligation to
pay in full the purchase price, holding the purchaser liable for any deficiency plus all costs of sale.

7. In no event will the liability of Skinner, Inc. to any purchaser with respect to any item exceed the purchase price actually paid by such
purchaser for such item.

8. Shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. Upon request, our staff will provide the list of shippers who deliver to destinations within the
United States and overseas. Some property that is sold at auction can be subject to laws governing export from the U.S., such as items that
include material from some endangered species. Import restrictions from foreign countries are subject to these same governing laws. Granting of
licensing for import or export of goods from local authorities is the sole responsibility of the buyer. Denial or delay of licensing will not constitute
cancellation or delay in payment for the total purchase price of these lots.

9. All purchases are subject to the Massachusetts 6.25% sales tax unless the purchaser possesses a Massachusetts sales tax exemption number.
Exemption numbers from other states are accepted in Massachusetts if presented with a business card or letterhead. Dealers, museums, and other
qualifying parties can apply for a Massachusetts exemption number prior to the auction by contacting the Massachusetts Department of
Corporations and Taxation at 100 Cambridge Street in Boston.

10. Except for property purchased via on-line Live Auctions, a premium equal to 18.5% of the final bid price up to and including $200,000, plus
10% of the final bid over $200,000, will be applied to each lot sold, to be paid by the Buyer as part of the purchase price. The buyers premium on
property purchased via on-line Live Auctions will be in the amount equal to 22.5% of the final bid price up to and including $200,000, plus 15%
of the final bid over $200,000.

11. Bidding on any item indicates your acceptance of these terms and all other terms announced at the time of sale whether bidding in person,
through a representative, by phone, by Internet, or other absentee bid.

12. Skinner, Inc. and its consignors make no warranty or representation, express or implied, that the purchaser will acquire any copyright or
reproduction rights to any lot sold. Skinner, Inc. expressly reserves the right to reproduce any image of the lots sold in this catalogue. The
copyright in all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for Skinner, Inc. relating to a lot, including the contents of this
catalogue, is, and shall remain at all times, the property of Skinner, Inc. and shall not be used by the purchaser, nor by anyone else, without our
prior written consent.

13. These conditions of sale shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (excluding the laws applicable to conflicts or
choice of law). The buyer/bidder agrees that any suit for the enforcement of this agreement may be brought, and any action against Skinner in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this agreement shall be brought, in the courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any
federal court sitting therein. The bidder/buyer consents to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of such courts and waives objections that it may now or
hereafter have to the venue of any such suit.

Revised September 29, 2009

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Board of Directors Chairman of the Board - Nancy R. Skinner
Richard Albright
Barnet Fain
Stephen L. Fletcher
Karen M. Keane

Administration President/Chief Executive Officer - Karen M. Keane

Chief Financial Officer - Don Kelly
Executive Vice President - Stephen L. Fletcher
Vice Presidents- Gloria Lieberman, Carol McCaffrey, Kerry Shrives,
Stuart G. Slavid, Stuart P. Whitehurst

Expert American & European Paintings & Prints - Robin S.R. Starr
Assistants: Kathy Wong, Elizabeth C. Haff
Departments American Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stephen L. Fletcher, Martha Hamilton
Assistants: LaGina Austin, Karen Langberg, Chris Barber, Susan Zacharias
American Indian & Ethnographic Art - Douglas Deihl
Asian Works of Art - James F. Callahan
Assistant: Tianyue Jiang
Books & Manuscripts - Stuart P. Whitehurst
Assistant: Sara C. Wishart
Bottles, Flasks & Early Glass - Stephen L. Fletcher
Ceramics - Stuart G. Slavid
Classic Automobiles & Motorcycles - Jane D. Prentiss
Couture - Kerry Shrives
Discovery Sales - Kerry Shrives
Assistants: Garrett J. Sheahan, Harry B. McNabb, Melissa Riebe
European Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stuart G. Slavid
Assistants: Stuart P. Whitehurst, Sara C. Wishart
Fine Wines - Marie Keep
Jewelry - Gloria Lieberman
SKINNER, INC. Assistants: Sheila Barron Smithie, F.G.A., G.G.; John Colasacco
Auctioneers and
Judaica - Kerry Shrives
Appraisers of Antiques
Modernism: 1896–Present: Art Glass, Pottery, Metalwork & Furniture -
and Fine Art
Jane D. Prentiss
63 Park Plaza Museum & Collections Services - Martha Hamilton
Boston, MA 02116 Musical Instruments - David Bonsey
617.350.5400 Oriental Rugs & Carpets - Gary Richards
Fax 617.350.5429 Science, Technology & Clocks - Robert C. Cheney
Assistant: Chris Barber
274 Cedar Hill Street Silver - Stuart G. Slavid
Marlborough, MA 01752 Assistant: Sara C. Wishart
508.970.3000 Toys & Dolls - Kerry Shrives
Fax 508.970.3100 Auctioneers - LaGina Austin, David Bonsey, Robert C. Cheney,
Stephen L. Fletcher, Karen M. Keane, Marie C. Keep, Gloria Lieberman,
www.skinnerinc.com Kerry Shrives, Stuart G. Slavid, Robin S.R. Starr, Laura V. Sweeney,
Stuart P. Whitehurst
Exhibitions & Marlborough: Warehouse Manager - Jonathan Dowling, 508.970.3280
Property Manager - Samuel Combs, 508.970.3262
Property Distribution
Boston: Elisabeth Benson-Allott, 617.874.4312;
Kerryn Murphy, 617.874.4329

Property Distribution Manager - Jessica R. Lincoln, 617.874.4308

Finance Department Marlborough: Accounts Receivable - Denise Johnson, 508.970.3269

Accounts Payable - Kathleen Hayes, 508.970.268
Credit Supervisor - Joe Monteyro, 508.970.3266

Subscriptions Marlborough: Karen Skinner, 508.970.3240

Service Departments Appraisal & Auction Services - Patricia Walker King, Beth Zwicker,
Katharine Holtman, Leah Skowron
Advertising Production - Pamela Van de Houten
Boston Gallery Director - Laura V. Sweeney
Assistant Gallery Director: Paige Lewellyn
Gallery Assistant: Katharine E. Hampson
Catalogue Production - Pamela Van de Houten, Kristina Harrison
Assistant: Cheryl Freeman
Customer Relations - Carol McCaffrey
Human Resources - Carol McCaffrey
Information Technology & Internet Auctions - Kerry Shrives
Assistants: Timothy Shaughnessey, Melissa Riebe
Consignment Services - Deanna Williams, Megan J. Blomgren, Carol Zeigler
Managing Director - Marie C. Keep
Marketing & Public Relations - Catherine Riedel, Anne M. Trodella,
Karen Skinner
Photographers - Stanley P. Bystrowski, Jeffrey R. Antkowiak
Receptionists - Marlborough: Carol Tran
Boston: Hadley Dinardo
Transportation - Eric Jones
Assistants: Mark McCaffrey, John Williams
 DIRECTIONS TO THE
MARLBOROUGH GALLERY

SKINNER

From Boston and Points East:

Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Route 90) West to Route 495 North at exit 11A. Proceed on
Route 495N to exit 23C, Simarano Drive. Keep left at the fork in the ramp. At the bottom of the
exit ramp take a left at the lights onto Simarano Drive. Take a right at the next light on Cedar Hill
Street. Skinner is at #274 on the left.

From Points North:

Take Route 495 South to exit 23C, Simarano Drive. Stay left at the fork in the ramp, and turn left
onto Simarano Drive. Take a right at the next light on Cedar Hill Street. Skinner is at #274 on
the left.

From Points West:

Take 290 East toward Marlborough. Merge onto Route 495 South via exit 26A, toward Cape
Cod. Take the Simarano Drive exit, 23C. Stay left at the fork in the ramp, and turn left onto
Simarano Drive. Take a right at the next light on Cedar Hill Street. Skinner is at #274 on the left.

From Points South:

Take Route 495 North to exit 23C, Simarano Drive. At the bottom of the exit ramp take a left at
the lights onto Simarano Drive. Take a right at the next light on Cedar Hill Street. Skinner is at
#274 on the left.
MARLBOROUGH AREA RESTAURANTS

FINE DINING INEXPENSIVE

Coral Seafood Restaurant Boston Market

29 S. Bolton St. 185 Boston Post Rd. West
Marlborough, MA Marlborough, MA
508.460.3474 508.229.2525

Panera Bread
MODERATE 197 Boston Post Rd. West
Marlborough, MA
508.281.6161
Guiseppe’s Grille
35 Solomon Pond Rd.
Northborough, MA
508.393.4405 Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub
32 Boston Post Rd. West
Marlborough, MA
Allora Ristorante 508.480.8899
139 Lakeside Ave. Rte. 20
Marlborough, MA
508.485.4300 Linguini’s Italian Eatery
350 Boston Post Rd. West
Marlborough, MA
Wildwood Steakhouse 508.481.9747
189 Boston Post Rd. East
Marlborough, MA
508.481.2021 China Taste
197 Boston Post Rd. West
Marlborough, MA
Longhorn Steakhouse 508.229.2882
191 Boston Post Rd.
Marlborough, MA
508.481.4100 Yoong Tong
Thai Cuisine and Sushi
278 Main St./Rt. 20
Tandoori Grill Northborough, MA
197 H Boston Post Rd. West 508.393.7714
Marlborough, MA
508.357.6551
MARLBOROUGH HOTELS

Courtyard by Marriott Hampton Inn Holiday Inn and Suites

75 Felton St. (exit 24B off 495) 277 Boston Post Rd. West 265 Lakeside Ave.
Marlborough, MA (exit 24B off 495) (exit 24A off 495)
508.480.0015 Marlborough, MA Marlborough, MA
508.787.9888 508.481.3000
Embassy Suites
123 Boston Post Rd. West Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel
(exit 24B off 495) 181 Boston Post Road West
Marlborough, MA (exit 24B off 495)
508.485.9500 Marlborough, MA
508.460.0700

TRAVEL SERVICES & CAR RENTALS

Ultimate Livery Enterprise Car Rental

To Logan Airport Hotel Pick-up and Delivery
$46.00 each way for one 364 Maple Street
$56.00 each way for two (Rt. 85)
Private car and driver $147.50 one way Marlborough, MA
508.480.0221
Servicing all Marlborough hotels
Hertz Car Rental
80 Northborough Rd East 410 Maple Street
Marlborough, MA 01752 (Rt. 85)
508.481.7300 Marlborough, MA
508.229.2756
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European Furniture & Decorative Arts $120 $143

American & European Paintings & Prints $120 $143

Fine Jewelry $120 $143

20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts $60 $73

Asian Works of Art $60 $73

Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets $18 $25

American Indian & Ethnographic Art $60 $73

Fine Books & Manuscripts $30 $36

Toys, Dolls & Collectibles $60 $73

Fine Ceramics $60 $73

Fine Musical Instruments $60 $73

Science & Technology $60 $73

Fine Wines $60 $73

All Above Departments $800 $975

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 Upcoming Auction
Science, Technology & Clocks
featuring Militaria, Arms, and Armor
November 20, 2010 Marlborough, Massachusetts

Consignments Now Being Accepted

For more information contact Robert C. Cheney at 508.970.3244 or

email sci-tech@skinnerinc.com