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Failure to do this may result This written Indication is issued SALE NUMBER in your bids not being processed. subject to Clause 3 of the Notice 24222 to Bidders. Bidding by telephone will only be CATALOGUE accepted on lots with a low Please see back of catalogue estimate in excess of £1,000 for important notice to bidders £20.00 Live online bidding is ILLUSTRATIONS available for this sale Front cover: Lot 116 Please email [email protected] Back cover: Lot 53 with “Live bidding” in the subject Inside front cover: Lot 102 line 48 hours before the auction Inside back cover: Lot 115 to register for this service. IMPORTANT INFORMATION The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA. Lots containing ivory are indicated by the symbol Ф printed beside the lot number in this catalogue. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Antony Bennett, Matthew Bradbury, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Jean Ghika, Charles Graham-Campbell, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Jon Baddeley, Rupert Banner, Geoffrey Davies, Matthew Haley, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jonathan Fairhurst, Asaph Hyman, James Knight, David Johnson, Charles Lanning, Grant Macdougall Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. SALE Central Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital Park Royal INFORMATION Acton Ln Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton Horn Lane Station BIDS COLLECTION STORAGE AND HANDLING VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Sold lots marked TP will be available CHARGES ON SOLD LOTS Will be applied at the current +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax for collection from Cadogan Tate RETURNED TO CADOGAN TATE rate on all above charges. To bid via the internet please visit from 12pm Monday 18 December www.bonhams.com 2017 and then every working day Storage The following symbol is between 9am-4.30pm. 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FINE CLOCKS Lots 1 - 125 1 3 A RARE LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH ENGRAVED BRASS A RARE LATE 19TH/EARLY20TH CENTURY FRENCH SMALL MINIATURE STRIKING CARRIAGE CLOCK SET WITH FOUR PETITE-SONNERIE STRIKING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH PORCELAIN PANELS ALARM Trademark F.G. Numbered 33475 The case engraved with geometric patterns to cornice, pillars and The reeded handle over bevelled glass panels and the white enamel base, set with four porcelain panels decorated with Romantic Arabic dial within a textured mask, the movement with cut and figures within gilt and jewelled borders, the Roman chapter ring compensated bimetallic balance to a lever platform escapement, with decorated centre and gilt hands, the twin train movement with striking the hours and the quarters on a pair of coiled blued steel bimetallic balance and lever escapement on a silvered platform, gongs, the alarm train wound and set via a subsidiary dial on the striking and repeating the hours on a coiled blued steel gong 11cms backplate 11.5cms (4.5ins) high (4ins) high. £800 - 1,200 £2,000 - 3,000 €900 - 1,300 €2,200 - 3,400 US$1,100 - 1,600 US$2,600 - 4,000 4 2 A RARE LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT CARRIAGE A RARE MID 19TH CENTURY EBONISED FRENCH CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH BEADED DECORATION CLOCK WITH JULES TYPE PLATFORM Maurice and Company, number 1189 Auguste à Paris The ribbed handle over three porcelain panels, each depicting birds The case with turned brass handle and four ball finials over canted and butterflies with gilt and silvered decoration enriched by applied corners and a plinth base on button feet, the signed white enamel glass beads, the Arabic white enamel chapter ring with minute band Roman dial with blued steel moon hands within a gilt sight ring, the and blued steel hands, the signed movement with bimetallic balance spring driven movement with cut and compensated bimetallic balance and English style lever escapement, striking and repeating the hours mounted on a raised bridge cock over a lever escapement, with on a coiled blued steel gong 17.5cms (6.5ins) high. outside countwheel strike on a bell 17cms (6.75ins) high. £1,000 - 1,500 £800 - 1,200 €1,100 - 1,700 €900 - 1,300 US$1,300 - 2,000 US$1,100 - 1,600 A similar carriage clock is illustrated by Derek Roberts, Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks (1993), p 158.