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Lots not collected by then may be subject to storage charges Please refer to the department. 1 2 1 (movement detail) 1 2 EdmuNd mASSEY. A very FINE ANd RARE EARlY 18TH JoHN EbSWorth. A FINE ANd RARE EARlY 18TH CENTury CENTury ASTRoNomICAl CAlENdAR pAIR CASE poCKET poCKET watch WITH NIgHT ANd day INdicatioN watch Circa 1700 Cases Numbered 1443, Circa 1710 Gilt full plate fusee verge movement, winged, pierced and engraved Gilt brass full plate movement, fusee with chain, verge escapement, balance cock, tulip pillars, silvered regulation, silver dial with detailed three-arm balance with spring, with pierced and engraved winged engravings of birds and leaves, outer minute divisions chapter, blued balance cock, silvered regulation, tulip pillars, engraved steel case steel sector with rotating day and night indication, with the moon and catch under the dial plate, chased gilt brass dial with blued steel sun pointing to the Roman hours above, single steel minute hand, hands, applied silvered chapter rings for date, hours and age of the polished silver inner case stamped VB with coronet and shuttered moon, circular aperture within age of the moon chapter for moon winding hole, possibly for Urian Berrington Senior, polished silver outer phase, aperture under the bow for astrological signs for corresponding with 7-piece hinge, movement signed day, at four o’clock an aperture for the days of the month with 53mm. corresponding zodiac sign, and aperture at 8 for the four periods of the day, silver hinged cases both numbered and marked WW, movement £5,000 - 7,000 signed €6,400 - 8,900 56mm. US$7,900 - 11,000 £4,000 - 5,000 John Ebsworth, apprenticed to Richard Aymes, and possibly €5,100 - 6,400 succeeded Thomas Knifton at the Cross Keys in Lothbury in 1667. US$6,300 - 7,900 Urian Berrington Senior, was apprenticed to Delander in 1677 for 7 Edmund Massey was apprenticed in 1674 to Joseph Knibb, and was years. made free of the clockmaker’s between 1683-1690. FINE WATCHES ANd WRISTWATCHES | 3 3 5 THomAS mudgE. A FINE ANd RARE mId 18TH CENTury JoHN buSHmANN. A FINE ANd RARE EARlY 18TH CENTury gold pAIR CASE poCKET watch pAIR CASE CAlENdAR poCKET watch No.455, English Hallmark for 1759 Numbered 1082, London Hallmark for 1709 Full plate cylinder movement with pierced and engraved balance cock Full plate fusee movement with pierced and engraved winged balance and diamond end stone, silvered regulation, squared baluster pillars, cock, silvered regulation, hybrid pillars, gold dial with Roman hour white enamel dial with Roman numerals and outer Arabic numerals, chapter and outer Arabic five minute divisions, engraved foliate centre, gold hands, polished round cases with 7 piece hinge stamped TC for later hands, round calendar aperture at the centre, polished round Thomas Carpenter, cuvette and movement signed numbered cases, with IW possibly for John Willoughby, with personal 52mm.