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Handley and Moore, London and Francis Adams, London, a Regency bracket clock: the shaped eight-day duration, double-fusee movement having an anchor escapement and striking the hours on a bell, engraved to the backplate by the movement makers Handley & Moore, Clerkenwell, London, with typical border engraving, the pendulum with an engraved bob and fine regulation, the eight-inch round painted dial having black Roman numerals, blued-steel hands, a strike/silent lever above XII o'clock and signed F.B. Adams, London, the mahogany curved-top case with brass inlaid decoration, brass fish-scale frets and handles to the sides, canted corners and surmounted by a pediment top with brass finial, height 49cm.* Biography Handley & Moore were makers of movements to the clockmaking trade, working in Clerkenwell Close from 1801 until Handley retired in 1820 whereupon John Moore continued alone.*Biography Francis Bryant Adams, apprenticed in 1795, is recorded as working in St. Johns Square, Clerkenwell, a few hundred yards from the Handley & Moore workshops, until 1825 with his son of the same name continuing the business.*Notes Reference Brian Loomes Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, Pub. NAG 2006.