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3 December | Clocks & Barometers
Auction date
Wednesday 3 December 2025
11:00
- 12:00 GMT
Wednesday 3 December
Lots 1- 81 11am Clocks
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Lot 1
Sold
A BRASS-MOUNTED STINKWOOD MARINE BAROMETER
By De Villiers & Son, Capetown, late 20th Century
The domed top with brass knob for vernier adjustment, angled scales, above turned stem, gimbal…
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £100 - £200
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 2
Sold
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND CHEQUER-STRUNG STICK BAROMETER
By Mantica & Co.
The architectural pediment above signed silvered scale and vernier, the trunk with glass tube and…
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £150 - £250
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 3
Sold
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEQUER-STRUNG STICK BAROMETER
The dial inscribed Jas. Gatty, London
With an arched pediment above a silvered scale with vernier, the trunk with visible tube above a…
Hammer price:
£50
Estimate: £100 - £200
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 4
Sold
A LARGE VICTORIAN CARVED OAK STICK BAROMETER
By Bennett, Blackheath
With a deeply carved pediment above bevelled glazed panel, ivory dials, original thick glass…
Hammer price:
£420
Estimate: £120 - £180
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 5
Sold
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETER
By Bland & Long, 153 Fleet Street, London
With stepped moulded pediment, bevelled glazed panel and engraved ivory scales, original thick…
Hammer price:
£420
Estimate: £120 - £180
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 6
Sold
A LARGE VICTORIAN CARVED WALNUT STICK BAROMETER
The arched carved pediment above bevelled glass panel showing the thick mercury-filled tube,…
Hammer price:
£400
Estimate: £100 - £200
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 7
Unsold
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, CHEQUER OUTLINED AND INLAID WHEEL BAROMETER
By Joseph Somalvico & Co, No. 256, Holborn, London
The arched pediment with brass finial above teh trunk inlaid with oak leaves and acorns in ovals,…
Estimate: £120 - £180
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 8
Sold
A FRENCH MAHOGANY AND GLAZED CASED BAROGRAPH
By Richard Freres, No 1042
The lid with a brass carrying handle above four glazed sides, the mechanism on a brass plate, with…
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £60 - £80
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 9
Sold
AN OAK AND GLAZED CASED BAROGRAPH
By Negretti & Zambra, London, The Regent, 20th Century
With bevelled glass plates, the mechanism with a silvered scale showing the barometric pressure in…
Hammer price:
£320
Estimate: £100 - £200
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 10
Sold
A RUSSIAN BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SHIP’S CHRONOMETER
By The First Moscow Watch Factory, No 9802, dated 1964
The brass-bound three-tier case with hinged lid above glazed observation panel, with a pair of…
Hammer price:
£350
Estimate: £200 - £400
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 11
Sold
AN AMERICAN OAK-CASED SHIP’S CHRONOMETER
By Hamilton, Lancaster, type 21 model, the dial No 8783, dated 1941, the movement No 5789-1941
The two-tier case with hinged glazed cover, brass bowl and gimbals, with screwed bezel and bevelled…
Hammer price:
£600
Estimate: £200 - £400
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 12
Sold
A PAIR OF BRASS-CASED WEIGHTS FOR A LONGCASE CLOCK
With slightly convex base20cm high overall
Hammer price:
£130
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 13
Sold
A PAIR OF BRASS-CASED WEIGHTS FOR A LONGCASE CLOCK
21cm high overall
Hammer price:
£120
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 14
Sold
A GROUP OF FIVE BOOKS
R. W. Symonds, Thomas Tompion His Life and Work, Feltham 1969, with dust cover and in a plastic…
Hammer price:
£90
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 15
Sold
A GROUP OF SEVEN BOOKS
Ronal Rose, English Dial Clocks, Woodbridge, 2000, lacking dust coverBrian Loomes, Brass Dial…
Hammer price:
£60
Estimate: £30 - £50
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 16
Sold
A RARE CAST-IRON TWIN-TRAIN TURRET CLOCK
By Arnold, Charles Frodsham, 84 Strand, London, Dated 1853
The frame with four tapering uprights and acorn finials, strapwork horizontals and six vertical…
Hammer price:
£600
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 17
Sold
A MAHOGANY WALL REGULATOR
Second half 20th Century
The rectangular case with a moulded pediment above a hinged glazed door, above a plain base; the 9…
Hammer price:
£850
Estimate: £200 - £400
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 18
Sold
AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY HIGH_QUALITY UNUSUAL REGULATOR
Anonymous, Circa 1850
The hood, now lacking its moulded pediment and with a canvas cover, above a glazed circular brass…
Hammer price:
£700
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 19
Sold
A GERMAN OAK-CASED TELEFONBAU UND NORMALZEIT MASTER CLOCK
Circa 1960
The rectangular-shaped case with a glazed door, 8in silvered dial with seconds subsidiary, the…
Hammer price:
£240
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 20
Sold
A GEORGIAN OAK STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK
The movement by John Tribe, Petworth, the case associated
The case of good colour, moulded pediment above glazed door with three-quarter columns and arched…
Hammer price:
£400
Estimate: £150 - £250
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 21
Sold
A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY SUSSEX-MADE STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK
Possibly Chichester area, circa 1800
The case with a dentil moulded cornice above glazed door, flanked by slender three-quarter columns,…
Hammer price:
£320
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 22
Sold
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY-CASED QUARTER-STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK
The movement signed John Grant, Fleet Street, London, the case associated
The case with a moulded pediment above glazed dial door and sides, the trunk inset with a…
Hammer price:
£420
Estimate: £400 - £600
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 23
Sold
A SCOTTISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK
By John Breakenrig, Edinburgh, circa 1790
The case with a swan-neck pediment centred by a brass eagle and sphere finial, above arched glazed…
Hammer price:
£260
Estimate: £300 - £500
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 24
Sold
A WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK
The movement associated, the case 18th Century and later
The hood with an overhanging pediment above fretted panel and glazed door, flanked by tapering…
Hammer price:
£260
Estimate: £300 - £500
3 December 2025
3 December 2025