Rigby, Charing Cross, London.
£6,500
Small pretty English Regency brass and ebony inlaid mahogany bracket clock. The round silvered dial with strike/silent lever signed Rigby Charing Cross, Roman numerals and blued steel spade hands.
The high quality five pillar double fusee movement with arched plates and anchor escapement, striking the hours and half hours on a bell, signed Rigby Charing Cross London to the backplate with border engraving. The engraved pendulum bob having a calibrated regulation nut with blued steel pointer set into the oval brass rod, engraved slow/fast.
The breakarch case with cast brass bezel, ebony line inlay to the sides with brass rosette inlaid corners, brass inlay to the front above the simple moulded base on brass feet. Contemporary mahogany wall bracket.
James Rigby was in Clerkenwell and moved to Charing Cross when he succeeded the business of John Leroux in 1808.
- Height.15".
- Date c. 1820.
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