AN ENGLISH PATINATED BRONZE STRIKING CARRIAGE CLOCK WITH ORIGINAL OAK CASE

The clock case with deeply cut bevelled glass panels to the top, front and sides, below a swept handle, with moulded cornice and canted angles with foliate mouldings, on a stepped base and foliate cast feet, the 4 1/2in rectangular silvered dial with pierced blued steel trefoil hands, signed to the centre GILLETT & BLAND / CLOCK FACTORY / CROYDON, with foliate scrolls to top and base, the fine quality twin train chain fusée movement, stamped on the backplate 0658 (inverted), with large platform and three-arm brass balance, lever escapement, maintaining power and striking the hour on a bell, with solid shuttered rear door, locked by a square from the underside of the base, with its original oak case and a brass double-ended key

27cm high (handle up)

Gillett & Bland was established in the early 19th Century by William Gillett in Hadlow, Kent.  In 1837 the business moved to Clerkenwell; and in 1844 to Union Road, Croydon, where it would remain for over a hundred years. Charles Bland became a partner in 1854 and in 1877 the partnership expanded with Arthur Johnson joining, when it became Gillett, Bland & Co.

CONDITION REPORT
The clock is ticking and striking and the movement appears well cared for.  The clock case would benefit from a clean and wax to bring forward its lustre.  It’s carrying case has lost a moulding piece to the left side and the rear door key end is broken off.  The lock is not the original.