RARE BRASS LANTERN ALARM TIMEPIECE BY THOMAS SUTTON OF MAIDSTONE

RARE BRASS LANTERN ALARM TIMEPIECE BY THOMAS SUTTON OF MAIDSTONE, 18TH CENTURY, the brass arch dial with floral engraved decoration, applied Roman numeral chapter ring with lozenge half-hour markers and inner quarter-hour track, alarm setting disc to dial centre with s ingle steel hand, signed 'Tho's Sutton Maidstone', the single train, weight-driven movement with anchor escapement and 4" long pen-dulum, in a grained pine case, 22cm wide Provenance: Formerly in Lancotbury Manor, Bedfordshire