A10603

Silver English Verge with Silvered Cock

£950.00

Signed   Nath Hedge   Colchester
Hallmarked London   1763
Diameter   49 mm       Depth   15 mm

Out of stock

Description

A mid 18th Century English verge with silvered cock in silver pair cases.  Full plate fire gilt fusee movement with square baluster pillars.  Pierced and engraved silvered cock, pierced and engraved foot and silvered plate for the silver regulator disc.  Plain three arm steel balance, blue steel spiral hairspring.  White enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, blue steel hands.  Matching plain silver pair cases, silver pendant and bow, maker’s mark “IW”.

A number of members of the Hedge family worked in Colchester from 1740 to the 1800s.