A GEORGE II BRASS LANTERN TIMEPIECE WITH ALARM

THOMAS MOORE, IPSWICH, CIRCA 1740

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A GEORGE II BRASS LANTERN TIMEPIECE WITH ALARM
THOMAS MOORE, IPSWICH, CIRCA 1740
Of typical proportions, the Roman chapter ring with foliate engraved centre with central alarm disc and blued steel hand, signed 'Tho: Moore Ipswich', with verge escapement and central-swinging bob pendulum extending through unusual cut-outs in the side doors, the alarm pulley now lacking, hoop and spurs to the iron back plate
15 in. (38 cm.) high

来源

Christie's, London, 24 November 1999, lot 57.

出版

Arthur Haggar & Leonard Miller, Suffolk Clocks & Clockmakers, Ramsgate, 1974, pp. 28-36.

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Please note that the alarm mechanism is present contrary to the catalogue description.

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The second son of Roger (d. 1727) and Elizabeth Moore, Thomas Moore presumably apprenticed under his father. In 1711, he married and his clockmaking business soon flourished in Ipswich. In the Ipswich Journal of 17 December, 1720 there carried the advertisement,'This is to acquaint the Curious, That at the Great White Horse in Ipswich is to be seen Thos. Moore's most famous Astronomical and musical clock...' and nine years later, he invented a fusee watch that could be wound in either direction, a design for which was published in Thiout's Traite de l'horlogerie published in 1741. In his will he left the enormous sum of £6,000 to various of his children and in addition some curious clocks including 'my musical spring clock, my ball clock, my rolling clock, the spring table and the moving figures standing above the stairs.'