Beschreibung:

A Victorian engraved gilt-brass desk timepiece with calendar Thomas Cole London, No. 1330 - 0, retailed by C.F. Hancock. Circa 1850 The imposing case flanked by pilasters finely engraved with scrolling foliage, flowerheads and fruit and signed at the bottom of the right pilaster THOs COLE , the semi-circular base with casters to the back, with calendar adjustment slide also to the rear, the front engraved with scrolling foliage on a hatched ground and centred by a semi-circular glazed and recessed silvered aperture engraved with formal strapwork on a hatched ground and with further window displaying the manually adjustable day and date, the pediment surmounted by a finely pierced and engraved Royal coat of arms, the dial within a hexagonal gilt-metal glazed bezel, the silvered dial engraved with formal stapwork, with painted Roman chapter ring and blued steel hands, signed C.F. HANCOCK LONDON within a small oval reserve at the base, the going barrel movement with hexagonal gilt plates with four pillars secured by blued steel screws, steel three-arm balance to the lever escapement, the backplate signed THOS COLE LONDON , the rear cover with wind, hand-set and regulation apertures and engraved at the top C.F. HANCOCK 39, Bruton St. Bond St. LONDON: Jeweller and Silversmith to the Queen , the reverse of the lower rear moulding punch-numbered 1330 - 0 16½ in. (42 cm.) high, 11½ (29 cm.) wide, 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) deep