Clocks · Bracket clock
Small fusee mantel clock by Jump, London, c. 1890
- Maker / attribution
- Jump (maker)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Historical period
- Industrial Revolution (1850 – 1900)
- Country of origin
- England
- Place
- London
- Object type
- Bracket clock
- Dimensions
- Height 12 in (30 cm)
- Stock no.
- Product 254
- Credit line
- Dealer listing, P A Oxley (product 254)
- Catalogue title (original)
- Small Fusee Mantel Clock by Jump of London (English)
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Record summary
Catalogued by P A Oxley (dealer), Wiltshire (stock number Product 254), this is a bracket clock by Jump, made in London, England, dated c. 1890. The Atlas places it in the Industrial Revolution period (1850 – 1900) of its Clocks collection. Recorded dimensions: Height 12 in (30 cm). The record is illustrated with 6 photographs.
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Catalogue description
Dealer description — P A Oxley
An excellent London mantel clock by these famous makers. The 8 day duration movement with a single fusee, anchor escapement and substantial brass plates. The backplate signed Jump, London. The unusually shaped and high quality pendulum typical of the standard of work that was being produced by the Jump workshops. The 4½" round painted dial with Roman chapters and matching blued steel hands. The very desirable Fiddle Back Sycamore veneered case of Balloon shape with tulipwood edge inlay, oval inlay below the dial and standing on four brass ogee feet. Note: Joseph Jump was apprenticed to the famous maker Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy in 1827. During the 1850âs when Vulliamy died, Joseph and his brother Alfred continued the business. He later joined forces with Henry Jump and they continued together until 1899 when Henry died. During their time together they worked at 55 Pall Mall and 11 Old Bond Street. In the early 20th century the Jump Clockmakers were Clockmakers to the King. Maker Jump of London
Historical context
Industrial Revolution (1850 – 1900)
American interchangeable-parts manufacture; railroad time standards; Swiss and German factory systems.
Factory production transformed the clock into an everyday object. American makers (Seth Thomas, Ansonia, Waterbury) and German factories (Junghans, Gustav Becker, Lenzkirch) sold millions of shelf, wall and alarm clocks worldwide; France produced standardised Paris movements and carriage clocks; electric time distribution began.
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Atlas type guide
Bracket, table and spring-driven clocks
Spring-driven clocks freed timekeeping from the hanging weight. The coiled mainspring, documented from the fifteenth century, made portable table clocks possible; to even out its declining force, makers used the fusee, a conical pulley connected to the barrel by a gut line or chain. Renaissance table clocks from Augsburg and Nuremberg — drum-shaped, square or tower-shaped in gilt brass — were luxury scientific objects, often with astronomical dials and alarms.
After the pendulum, English makers developed the bracket clock: a wooden case with a carrying handle, a short pendulum with a verge escapement, and often repeating work to sound the hours on demand at night. Later examples use the anchor escapement. In the nineteenth century, 'table clock' became a broad term for spring clocks of every nationality.
What to look for
- A fusee in the movement (cone-shaped pulley) and the type of line — gut or chain.
- Verge escapement with a short bob pendulum, often with a decoratively engraved backplate.
- Repeat cords or buttons that make the clock strike again on demand.
- Gilt-brass engraved cases and horizontal dials on Renaissance pieces.
- Case shapes: inverted bell, bell top, break-arch, lancet or balloon.
Dating clues
- Drum and tower table clocks: c. 1520–1650.
- Ebony veneered English bracket clocks with verge escapements: c. 1670–1800.
- Engraved backplates were usual on English clocks until c. 1800, then generally plain.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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