A rare and interesting strut clock very much in the manner of Thomas Cole and signed for one of his main retailers, Hunt & Roskell of London, who exhibited several Cole clocks at the Great Exhibition of 1851.The gilded oval case is profusely engraved with floral and c-scroll decoration and has a folding two-piece handle to the top and spring-loaded revolving strut, of typical Cole design, to the base, with the oval dial held within a scroll shaped frame. The dial is also profusely engraved with matching decoration and has blued steel fleur-de-lys hands, black Roman hour numerals and signed to the top and base Hunt & Roskell, 156 New Bond Street, London.To the lower part of the dial is a moon-phase aperture sat within the curved date crescent with a further blued steel hand. The engraving to the dial centre isn’t symmetrical as mostly seen on Cole clocks, although this is not so unusual on earlier made clocks, those pre-numbered, and there are certainly a number retailed by Hunt...