Rt ROSKELL, Liverpool. No 3928
Beautiful PATENT rack lever movement with calendar and compensation-curb by this most important manufacturer, circa 1805, from the Alan Treherne collection.
£345.00
Capped fullplate fusee movement with three-wheel train, of typical best quality Liverpool work. Litherland’s rack lever (frictional rest) escapement, the escape wheel run in slides. Steel balance, spiral balance-spring with compensation-curb mounted on the index. Lovely one-piece enamel dial, with the addition of a calendar, lettered in gold, rather than seconds indication at 6, and signed on the rear by its maker COOPER – see my Profile on Enamel Dials. Original gold hands and blued-steel calendar hand. 47 mm diameter, 14 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Peter Litherland, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. PATENT No 1889, June 1792. A form of non-detached lever escapement that was successful not only for him and his partners but also gave rise to what soon became a burgeoning Liverpool watchmaking industry and its exports to America.
Robert Roskell, famous Liverpool watch, clock and chronometer maker/retailers, one of the most influential of Lancashire firms whose output soon overtook that of Litherland, this being one of his earliest productions.
NB: It was always Alan Treherne’s intention to add to and publish the earlier work of Roger Carrington on this most important of Liverpool retailers; a firm that continued in business for over a century and which later formed a close association with the London firm of Nicole Nielsen. Alan’s collection of Roskell items incorporated the Carrington collection but sadly the hoped for article was never completed. It is my plan to collate their information and produce a Profile on the Roskell firm at some point.
Formerly on the Donald B Wing collection. A most unusual and beautiful movement with just two main problems: the top balance pivot is broken and the dial has a chip at the centre of the seconds bit. Otherwise complete and mostly in lovely crisp condition showing few signs of wear, and deserving of an appreciative new home.
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Capped fullplate fusee movement with three-wheel train, of typical best quality Liverpool work. Litherland’s rack lever (frictional rest) escapement, the escape wheel run in slides. Steel balance, spiral balance-spring with compensation-curb mounted on the index. Lovely one-piece enamel dial, with the addition of a calendar, lettered in gold, rather than seconds indication at 6, and signed on the rear by its maker COOPER – see my Profile on Enamel Dials. Original gold hands and blued-steel calendar hand. 47 mm diameter, 14 mm deep, not including centre arbor.
Peter Litherland, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. PATENT No 1889, June 1792. A form of non-detached lever escapement that was successful not only for him and his partners but also gave rise to what soon became a burgeoning Liverpool watchmaking industry and its exports to America.
Robert Roskell, famous Liverpool watch, clock and chronometer maker/retailers, one of the most influential of Lancashire firms whose output soon overtook that of Litherland, this being one of his earliest productions.
NB: It was always Alan Treherne’s intention to add to and publish the earlier work of Roger Carrington on this most important of Liverpool retailers; a firm that continued in business for over a century and which later formed a close association with the London firm of Nicole Nielsen. Alan’s collection of Roskell items incorporated the Carrington collection but sadly the hoped for article was never completed. It is my plan to collate their information and produce a Profile on the Roskell firm at some point.
Formerly on the Donald B Wing collection. A most unusual and beautiful movement with just two main problems: the top balance pivot is broken and the dial has a chip at the centre of the seconds bit. Otherwise complete and mostly in lovely crisp condition showing few signs of wear, and deserving of an appreciative new home.