184.    $250

Thomas Bostock bracket timepiece, ca. 1840’s.  An 18-inch tall bracket timepiece in walnut veneer with applied carvings on the front.  There are some filled cracks to the veneer on the top and front below the dial.  The 8-inch painted metal dial is signed “BOSTOCK, Sandbach”; Bostock was a watch and clockmaker in the first half of the 19^th century in Sandbach, a town north of Birmingham in England.  There is a flat glass in the bezel and two side glasses, as well as a glass on the back door.  A key unlatches the bezel.  The thick plate brass fusee movement is unsigned; it is running like a champ. $250-$500.