JUMP, LONDON. CIRCA 1890

Details

A late Victorian mahogany and ebony-strung table regulator
Jump, London. Circa 1890
The arched case with brass-lined glazed observation panels to the top, ebony mouldings to the front and sides, rectangular lenticle to the base section supported on adjustable milled brass toupie feet, the gilt and silvered dial of regulator layout re-signed Jump 93. Mount St. London in the gilt centre, blued steel hands, the movement with thick brass circular plates with flat base, secured by four robust vase-shaped pillars, Vulliamy-type deadbeat escapement, escape wheel with six crossings, steel-rod pendulum with large brass-covered bob, chain fusee, the backplate signed Jump London; together with an Asprey catalogue titled Asprey Antiques, featuring the present clock in colour
16in. (40.8cm.) high

Provenance

Bought at Asprey, 165-169 New Bond Street, London, circa 1985

Literature

Illustrated
Asprey catalgue, 1985, p.18
Maurice (Klaus) & Heuer (Peter), Europäische Pendeluhren, Callwey, 1988, p. 167. fig. 328

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

It is quite probable that the original customer for the present clock did not take possession/defaulted and so it then had to be re-engraved and sold by Jump - who may possibly have been the original manufacturer. Alternatively the alteration to the signature, noted by the stoning-out to the back of the dial and invisible from the front, could have been just an engraver's error.
An earlier table regulator of of very similar design signed Barwise, London exists in the collection of The Lord Harris at Belmont House, Kent

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