THOMAS WEEKS ESTABLISHED HIS MUSEUM OF MECHANICAL CURIOSITIES IN TITCHBORNE STREET, LONDON CIRCA 1797, AS AN EMPORIUM SELLING OBJECTS AND THE CABINETS NOW NAMED AFTER HIM. THE LATTER ARE A GROUP OF APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN SATINWOOD SECRETAIRE-CABINETS EACH OF WHICH IS FITTED WITH A WEEKS' MUSEUM CLOCK IN THE CRESTING (SEE: CHRISTOPHER GILBERT, 'SOME WEEKS CABINETS RECONSIDERED', CONNOISSEUR, MAY 1971). AN EXAMPLE IN THE ASSHETON-SMITH COLLECTION IS ILLUSTRATED IN THE DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE, REV.ED. 1954, VOL. I, P. 198, FIG. 71

OTHER INKSTANDS OF A SIMILAR MODEL ARE KNOWN BUT WITH A SMALLER WHIPPET IN PLACE OF THE SPANIEL. AN EXAMPLE WAS SOLD, SOTHEBY'S LONDON, 17 DECEMBER 1979, LOT 16