Beschreibung:

A Victorian mahogany bracket timepiece Barraud and Lund, London, circa 1860 The five pillar single chain fusee movement finished to a high standard with anchor escapement regulated by half-seconds pendulum suspended from pivoted transverse regulation beam, the backplate signed Barraud & Lund, Cornhill, London and numbered 1796 over pendulum holdfast bracket, the 8 inch shallow arch single sheet silvered brass Roman numeral dial engraved BARRAUD & LUND, CORNHILL, LONDON, 1796 to centre, with blued steel spade hands and foliate scroll engraved infill to lower spandrel areas and the arch centred with SLOW/FAST pendulum regulation dial, the architectural pedimented case with recessed panel fronted tympanum above stepped ogee cornice and silvered brass canted fillet inset glazed dial aperture to the front door flanked by canted angles, the sides plain and the rear with rectangular glazed door, on stepped base with recessed front apron panel over moulded skirt with squab feet, 51cm (20ins) high. Paul Phillip Barraud (born 1752) worked with his father at first until his death in 1795 after which Barraud turned his attention more towards chronometers. Using the valuable experience gained whilst working on Mudge's timekeepers with W. Howells and G. Jamieson to good effect, he became very successful. After his death in 1820 the business was continued by his sons taking John Richard Lund, a former apprentice of John Pennington (who developed the auxiliary compensation balance weight to correct for middle temperature changes), into partnership in 1838.