3371 J.H.Allis Albion Chambers Bristol c.1860

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J.H.Allis  Albion Chambers Bristol c.1860

A very rare miniature 5-glass Victorian mantel timepiece, with a 3” square silvered engraved brass dial to the chain fusee movement in a rosewood case with boxwood stringing. Total height - 6 ¼”  (160 mm.).

Stock No. 3371

This is probably the smallest ‘Library Timepiece’ that I have ever seen.

John Hagger Allis, born in 1817 in Tewkwsbury, was a distinguished Bristol maker, and is recorded working at this address from 1851 - 1876. He also made barometers, and he made a clock exhibited in the 1851 Great Exhibition.