A very rare and unusual early nineteenth century two-sided Scottish skeleton clock with both local and world time by R. Wilkie of Cupar Fife. The decorative eight-day skeletonized movement featuring volutes and ovals has five turned pillars each screwed front and back, nicely cut and finished five-spoke wheelwork, a large diameter fusee wheel, a passing hour strike on a bell mounted above and an anchor escapement. The pendulum has a steel rod, a bimetallic arched bob and a screwed fast/slow adjustment. It is suspended by a steel spring linked to an arbor that serves as a fast/slow micro adjustment and registers against an engraved silver dial. The whole stands on four decorative columns supported by a molded ebonized base with glass dome.

The engraved silvered chapter ring dial has Roman numerals for the hours, steel Lepine style hands and is signed 'R. Wilkie, Cupar Fife'. Most unusually there is a silvered engraved two-piece world time dial on the opposite side. The outer stationary dial has Roman numerals for the hours, two sets of I - XII, with the times of day in English on the outside edge. The finely engraved center rotating dial has forty-eight geographical locations, including England at the '0' mark, with the points of longitude in English along the outside edge.

Ref: R. Wilkie in Cupar Fife is listed as working 1792-1830.

Height - 15in. (w/out dome)

Retail Price: On Request.

A very nice English Regency mahogany bracket clock with a penny moon by Thomas Wright of Dorking. The broken arch case has warm toned mahogany veneer, a brass lined door, brass corner strips, bold bracket feet, fish scale frets and a hinged handle.

The brass dial has a finely matted center, spandrels to the corners and arch and a penny moon centered above. The silvered engraved hour's chapter has Roman numerals for the hours, Arabic numbers for the five-minute marks and two steel-cut Lepine-style hands. The silvered engraved scale has Arabic numbers for the 29.5 day Lunar cycle and Roman numerals to indicate the High tides for Dorking as indicated by a steel cut hand. The finely matted center has the moon aperture and allows the silvered, engraved and painted moon dial disc to be viewed as it rotates.

The eight-day twin-fusee movement has five knopped posts, border engraving on the backplate, engraved brackets, a pendulum with a screwed hold-down and an engraved brass lenticular bob and strikes and repeats on a bell.

Usually the penny moon is found on 30-hour English tallcase clocks. It is extremely rare to find it on a more formal mahogany bracket clock.

Ref: Dorking is in Surrey, 26 miles S.W of London.
Thomas Wright is listed as working in 1800 in Baillie's.
For an example of a clock by Wright see 'English Domestic Clocks', Fig.363.
The illustrated bracket clock has similar Lepine style hands.

Height - 17.25 in.

Retail Price: $17,000.

A very nice English Regency drop dial weight-driven wall clock. The case has warm toned veneer with ebony corner strips at the front. The removable top has a glazed wooden bezel with a concave edge and reeded front, is secured by an interior turn-latch and is hinged at the top. The backboard has the label of an early retailer 'S. May, London'.

The painted white dial has Roman numerals for the hours and two wonderfully shaped steel-cut hands. It is mounted to a cast false-plate signed by the dial maker 'Walker & Co'.

The A-shaped eight-day weight-driven movement has knopped posts, a recoil escapement and a second wheel mounted with a brass pinion wheel with a high leaf count to allow the clock to run a full week on the available drop.

Ref: Bovey Tracey is located in Devon in the South East part of England.

Height - 42 in.

Retail Price: $ 6,200.

A nicely proportioned Regency English mahogany bracket clock by Richard Powis, London. The well figured mahogany veneered broken arched case has numerous brass mounts that include the fish scale frets to the front and sides, a molded bezel, a hinged handle centered above and four bold bracket feet.

The engraved silvered dial has stylized Roman numerals for the hours, is signed by the maker, 'Richd Powis, London', has nicely finished steel-cut hands and an engraved center alarm disc.

The twin-fusee movement is stamped multiple times by the eminent movement makers, 'Thwaites, 4331', strikes on a bell with the strike/no strike lever out the front and has an alarm mechanism that is wound by pull cord out the side of the case and rings by clapper on the inside of the bell.

Ref: Richard Purvis is listed in Britten's as working at 36 Rosoman street from 1808 to 1821.

The Thwaites' records places that particular number at about 1810.

The movement number '4331', as was often the case, is also stamped on the lower edge of the back door opening of the case.

Height - 14.4 in.

Retail Price: $10,000.

A very elaborate English Georgian gilt-wood wall cartel clock with a barometer signed by the maker John Taylor, London. The Chinese Chippendale style case is decorated by leafy scrolls, has an elongated bottom that terminates in c-scrolls below and a pagoda accented with bells above. In the center of the bottom is a silvered, engraved Fahrenheit thermometer scale that is framed by a flat, gilt border. It has an alcohol tube, the normal temperature indications and additional engraving that seems to match the decorative motif of the rest of the clock.
The silvered engraved dial is set behind a brass, glazed bezel, has Roman numerals for the hours chapter, large Arabic numbers for the minutes chapter, a false pendulum aperture, is signed by the maker, ‘John Taylor, London’ and has finely cut elaborate steel hands. The single-fusee movement has A-shaped plates, a crownwheel escapement with a plain back cock and similar apron and is secured in the case by a steel bracket screwed to wood blocks.
The clock is completely original and restored and the gilt is in superb condition.
Height – 52in.
Retail Price – $ 35,000.