Although not signed, this small carriage clock can be safely attributed to Thomas Cole and his brother James Ferguson Cole as noted by John Hawkins in The Hawkins Pictorial Survey of Cole Clocks Part 1.?The eight-day duration timepiece movement has a platform lever escapement with plain steel balance and is identical to that supplied to Barwise, London as noted by Hawkins on page 93 as being made by James Ferguson Cole with the pinned pillars for the backplate being an early Cole feature. The movement is numbered on the backplate 47, and to the top of the plates 59.Another near-identical movement is known being signed Aubert & Klaftenberger, 157 Regent Street, London in a Thomas Cole case.The inset silvered dial is of Cole design with finely engraved rococo and floral decoration, black Roman numerals and Cole style Breguet blued-steel moon hands and engraved gilded mask. This style of dial is noted on many examples of Cole clocks shown in the Hawkins survey. ?Another import...