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Antique clocks for sale

A handsome mahogany bracket clock made in the late nineteenth century by Fattorini & Sons, who worked in Westgate, Bradford, Yorkshire, from the 1830s to about 1900 and later.  The clock has a triple fusee English-made movement, playing Westminster chimes every quarter hour on four gongs and striking the hour on a fifth gong.  Sub-dials offer fast/slow and chime/silent regulation.  The clock is in excellent condition and small for its type, standing just under 18 inches.
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Charles II period lantern clock by ‘Jeremy Gregorie Near the Royall Exchange London’, who died in 1686, formerly balance wheel, now anchor. SOLD.
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A fine, Charles II period lantern clock of the winged type, with alarmwork, made by Richard Ames of London, with centre verge pendulum, one of the first makers of introduce this form, who died in 1682. SOLD.
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Cromwellian period lantern clock with alarmwork with re-converted balance wheel escapement by Robert Robinson of London, who died in the Great Plague of 1665. SOLD.
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Charles II period lantern clock by ‘William Millin of Islington fecit’, who was working in the 1670s, re-converted balance wheel escapement, the only clock yet documented by this maker. SOLD.
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A fine lantern clock made in the 1670s by Richard Ames of London, a well-known clockmaker who worked ‘Neere St. Andrews Church in Holburn’    He was a former apprentice of the celebrated Peter Closon and was working from 1657 until he died shortly after he became Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1682.  He was one of the first to make clocks with a centre pendulum, as this one has.  Originally with alarmwork.  Like several of his clocks, this one has half-hour striking. The original doors on this clock never had ‘wings’.  Pictured after restoration.  See article.
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Italian Gothic iron chamber clock, seventeenth century. SOLD.
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Swedish Gothic iron chamber clock, seventeenth century. SOLD.
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