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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WAYWISER
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WAYWISER

BY THOMAS JONES

细节
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WAYWISER
By Thomas Jones
With spoked wheel and engraved dial with miles and furlongs and links of chains engraved 'Jones, Charing Cross, London', with a hinged glazed bezel and heart-shaped carrying-handle, with later metal holder, restorations
50 in. (128 cm.) high; 32 in. (81 cm.) diam.

拍品专文

This sturdy George IV waywiser for estate measuring, also known as a perambulator and hodometer, is signed by Thomas Jones, who was established at 62 Charing Cross between 1816 and 1850 as a Mathematical instrument maker. A similar waywiser bearing the name of Robert Banks, who was established in The Strand from the 1790s to the 1830s is illustrated in E.H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, London, 1969, fig. 290.