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MARGAINE, PARIS. AN ENGRAVED GORGE CASED STRIKING AND REPEATING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH PORCELAIN PANELS. CIRCA 1880.

The porcelain panels to the sides and dial are beautifully decorated with courting couples. Delicate shades of pink and blue have been used and the borders are edged in gold and turquoise and enhanced with white enamel beads. The dial is signed ‘Made in Paris for Howell & James to the Queen, London’ and has Breguet style hands in blued steel.

The gorge case is fully engraved and gilded and has a large viewing glass and repeat button to the top.

The eight day two train spring movement strikes the hours and half hour on a blued steel coiled gong. The bottom left hand corner is stamped with the Margaine trademark. It has a silvered platform lever escapement with a bi-metallic and cut balance wheel.

Height to base of handle: 5" (12.5 cms.)

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François-Arsène Margaine

Margaine had pemises at Rue Beranger 22 and Rue Bondy 54 in Paris. Allix and Bonnert record him as a very famous maker of carriage clocks. He was known to be working between 1869 to 1914. His trademark is of a beehive or skep with an ‘A’ and ‘M’ either side. He was awarded a silver medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1889 and a gold medal in 1900.

Further details can be found in ‘Carriage Clocks’ by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert.

Howell & James 1819-1911

John Howell & Isaac James started as silk mercers and by the time of the Great Exhibition were prominent retail jewellers and dealers in fine clocks. They first appeared in the London directories of 1820 and were still there in the 1880’s and traded from 5, 7 and 9 Regents Street. They exhibited at the International Exhibition of 1862, Paris 1867, London 1872 and supplied all of the clocks for the Grosvenor Hotel.

Further details can be found in ‘Thomas Cole and Victorian Clockmaking’ by

J B Hawkins and ‘Victorian Clocks’ by Richard Good.

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