A very small and charming bracket or mantel clock in a carved mahogany case with an engraved silvered roman dial. The eight day movement strikes the hours on a gong, with an associated mahogany wall bracket.A mantel clock by Elkington & Co can be found in the Royal Collection, having previously been owned by Queen Mary.The firm Elkington & Co. is one of the most important names associated with the production of silver plate and decorative objects in England in the 19th century. Formed as a silversmith in Birmingham in 1836, the business was the creation of its founder George Richards Elkington (1800-1865) who although initially trained as a maker of silver-mounted scent bottles, progressed his career with experiments to improve gilding techniques. By the late 1830''s Elkington began to apply the principals of electro-metallurgy to gilding and plating with silver and by 1838 he had discovered and patented a new way to bond silver onto the surface of another metal using electrici...