Dutton & Co. London. c.1868 Stock No.3041

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Dutton & Co. London. c.1868
 

An impressive Victorian drop dial by Dutton & Co., the silvered engraved 12” diameter brass dial signed by this important maker, including the Queen Victoria royal cipher, and the date 1868. The typically high quality fusee timepiece movement has a steel pendulum rod, and heavy brass bob, and bold steel hands. The mahogany case has superb flame veneer to the trunk, and side and bottom doors. This clock was a part of a government commission of 1868 for the civil service, and inventory labels inside the case indicate that it hung in the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane.

Stock No. 3041

The celebrated maker William Dutton founded the firm that was continued after his death in 1794 by his sons Matthew and Thomas, becoming Dutton and Co after c.1850