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Lot Essay
Henry François Verneaux, maître in 1747.
A case of the same design with dial signed by Stollewerck is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 174, fig. E.
The D'Olmo family is recorded in Venice from the 12th Century. Moving to Lugo di Romagna and later ennobled by Pope Martin V in 1410. In the second half of the fifteenth century the family moved to San Remo. They received the titles of Marquis d'Olmo, later Duke, from the Royal House of Savoy.
A case of the same design with dial signed by Stollewerck is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française, Paris, 1997, p. 174, fig. E.
The D'Olmo family is recorded in Venice from the 12th Century. Moving to Lugo di Romagna and later ennobled by Pope Martin V in 1410. In the second half of the fifteenth century the family moved to San Remo. They received the titles of Marquis d'Olmo, later Duke, from the Royal House of Savoy.