This small inkwell clock is both a lovely and historically important piece as it is ties together a number of aspects of my research into a group of previously unrecorded French makers of the period. The rear of the dial, the mainspring and the inside of the movement are all signed by the relevant parties who are instrumental in the manufacture of this clock, along with the retailers name to the dial and backplate, and it is fitted with a well-known style of escapement.The ten-day duration carriage clock movement strikes the hours and half-hours on a bell with an outside countwheel and is fitted with a chaff-cutter escapement as patented by Paul Garnier in 1830. The backplate is signed and numbered Moser à Paris 182 with the frontplate stamped with the initials and serial number H.L. 3280, being those which I have now identified as the blanc-roulant makers Holingue frères, Louis and Jean-Francois from the horological town of Saint Nicolas d''Aliermont near Dieppe in northern France...