Longcase emerges top
Horology topped the July 24-25 519-lot sale at the Bournemouth rooms of House & Son (15% buyer’s premium) when an 18th century longcase, being sold on the behalf of a local storage company where it had been left uncollected for years, was a specialist target.
With an eight-day movement by Asselin of London, a brass dial with pierced brass spandrels decorated…