THIS CLOCK IS ILLUSTRATED IN:
Hans Staeger, 100 years of Precision
timekeepers from John Arnold to Arnold &
Frodsham, Stuttgart, 1997, pp. 693-696,
illustrated in six colour plates.
The present clock is a particularly interesting
and early English carriage timepiece.
The condition is wonderful; the case is
unblemished and it retains its original lovely
gilding. The perfect white enamel dial is
free from any chips or hairline cracks.
The original platform escapement and the
movement plates are also gilded and of the
very highest quality with maintaining power
and cut bimetallic balance.
The partnership between John Roger Arnold
and Charles Frodsham was purely on paper.
In reality when J. R. Arnold died in 1843
Charles Frodsham, already a clockmaking
force in his own right, approached Arnold’s
executors and in 1844 he bought the whole
of the Arnold business. The postal address
became known as “Arnold & Frodsham,
Chronometer Makers, 84 Strand, London.
This title was retained until 1858 whereupon
it reverted to Charles Frodsham, Strand.
This particular clock is an extremely
interesting timepiece because it may well
be a unique clock in its own right. As above,
Frodsham began the joint signatures
from 1844 and it is thought that the serial
numbering for all his clocks began at 600.
The present clock, No. 664, could have
been old Arnold stock but it is more likely to
have been made by Frodsham. It’s doubtful
if any brass carriage clocks survive signed
Arnold, 84 Strand (possibly none were
made) and very few joint Arnold & Frodsham
carriage clocks between the 600-700 series
survive to this day – none of them in the
combination of timepiece in brass case with
enamel dial.
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