Accessories included different patterns of privates' and sergeants' combination tools--chained leather-topped snapcaps and brass or iron-and-cork "muzzle stoppers" known as
tompions.
A half-brother to the classy Lady Springbank, Thomas
Tompion caught the eye when fifth on debut but could not build on that when only third next time up.
It sold the lion's share within days--over 8.5m [pounds sterling] worth in total--including the 4.5m [pounds sterling] paid for the Medici
Tompion. The fair also enabled, in effect, an unusual collaborative museum purchase.
This fine clock was made in London by Daniel Quare, one of the best makers, who was rated alongside
Tompion, Knibb, East, Windmills, LeCount and the like.
looks THOMAS
TOMPION lools the solution to the Sir Gerald Whent Memorial Nursery at Newbury.
Roland Arkell, of Antiques Trade Gazette, said a pounds 500,000 Thomas
Tompion clock which police confirmed was missing was the "king of table clocks".
Among the stolen antiques are a pair of 1750 white porcelain busts depicting Mongolians and a rare 1675 Thomas
Tompion clock.
The ornate timepiece is a rare piece of work from the mechanical genius acknowledged to be England's greatest clockmaker, Thomas
Tompion. It is expected to fetch between pounds 600,000 and pounds 900,000 when it is sold at the Olympia salerooms in Hammersmith Road, London, on June 19.
This month's talks on the subject of `Time' in art include `Mercury's Metamorphoses: Time and Veronese' by Nicholas Friend, `Time in 20th-century painting' by Michael Harrison, and `Thomas
Tompion and his clocks at the Fitzwilliam Museum', given by the Honorary Keeper of Clocks and Watches, Deputy Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, Dr Colin Lattimore.
TOMPION PLATT, Head of Policy & Research, Living Streets