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The Country House Sale On 16/09/2023

The Country House Sale

16/09/2023

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Lot 1099

Victorian silver mounted oak casket, of bombe form, with ornate scrolling silver mounts and beaded r...

Victorian silver mounted oak casket, of bombe form, with ornate scrolling silver mounts and beaded rim, set with a silver medallion to centre of hinged cover, engraved "Dock Company at Kingston Upon Hull, Incorporated AD 1774" and with The Hull Dock Company's crest, the silver-gilt interior containing a removable rosewood compartment with two covered recesses, each with bone finials, the underside of the cover engraved in Latin and reputedly translated as "To the company by whose outlay and labour the dock honoured with the name of Albert has been constructed at Kingston Upon Hull, Dudley Robert Smith presents this casket, fashioned from a log found in the remains of the submerged forest when the waters retreated as a gift from one partner to the others and an ... of all good fortune, 1866", hallmarked William Summers, London 1869, H10.5cm, W17.5cm, D12cm

B44962

SOLD £360

Lot 1157

Denton & Fox of Hull – Early 19th century mahogany 8-day longcase clock c1802, pagoda pediment with ...

Denton & Fox of Hull – Early 19th century mahogany 8-day longcase clock c1802, pagoda pediment with an oval inlay and three ball and spire finials, break arch painted dial and hood door flanked by reeded pilasters with brass Corinthian capitals, long trunk door with conforming break arch top on a rectangular plinth raised on bracket feet, early Wilson (Birmingham) dial with Roman numerals, five minute Arabic’s and minute dots, subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture, with matching steel hands, floral spandrels within raised gesso work and a conforming oval depiction of a young maiden and dog to the break arch, dial pinned via a falseplate to a rack striking movement with a recoil anchor escapement striking the hours on a cast bell. With pendulum and weights. Joseph Denton was a respected and prolific Hull clock maker working in Scale Lane Hull 1779 and Silver Street 1782-1814. Entering a short-lived partnership with Charles Fox from Beverley in 1802.

B350

SOLD £1400

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