Lot 278
Jump, London
A Victorian silver cased hump back repeating travelling clock
Auction: 7 December 2002 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the four pillar movement with lever escapement, overcoil hairspring, single barrel with twin drives, striking half hours on a gong, slow/fast indicator, engraved to back plate 'Jump', the engine turned dial with engraved Roman chapters, moonphase aperture and subsidiary seconds dial, within engraved gilt mask with subsidiary day and date dials, the arched case by Anthony Charles Jones, London, 1888, with chain handle, hollow recessed bun feet, bevelled glazed door hinged to right, solid rear door with covered winding apertures, spring loaded with pin catch to rear foot, inscribed to inside 'Presented to Mr WE Lord by Mrs Baring in commemoration of his friendship with the late Thomas Baring Esq.'; original key with spring loaded ratchet (winding end replaced); enclosed within original gilt tooled dark green leather travelling case, divided hinged top, red chamois leather lining and recess to base for key
clock 15.5cm high; case 19cm high
Footnote
Note; This clock is one of the celebrated series known to have been made by Jump after Breuget's pattern in the 1880s and 1890s, of which allegedly no two are the same. The firm had been founded by Joseph Jump, an apprentice of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, George IV's clockmaker, soon after Vulliamy's death in 1845 and was responsible for some of the finest English clocks and timepieces of the 19th century. Joseph's father Richard had also worked for Vulliamy. His grandson wrote about this series of hump back clocks: 'The first of these clocks was made for a Lord Ashburton before I was in the business. It cost the firm a load of money in time and trouble, for so many men had to make so many parts (the man that made the hands couldn't do anything else...) My father presented the bill to Lord A with trembling hands and apologised for the high charge. Lord A took the bill and wrote out a cheque at once for double the amount charged on the bill and expressed his appreciation.'
Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert Carriage Clocks; their history and development Antique Collectors Club 1974