AVIATION INTEREST an interesting collection of items relating to Captain William Frederick James Harvey DFC & BAR, MC, MBE (1897-1972), to include part of a Bristol Fighter propeller mounted with a barometer (H O Quinn, London), a Royal Flying Corp flying helmet and photograph of Captain Harvey, and a photocopied copy of the typescript of Pi in the Sky, A History of No 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps & RAF in the War of 1914-1918 by W F J Harvey MBE, DFC, TD. *Captain Harvey served with the Signal Company of the Royal Engineers (TA) until he transferred to the RFC in 1916. In December 1917 he was posted as a pilot to 22 Squadron, flying Bristol Fighters. In 1918 he was promoted to Captain and took command of 'B' flight, he and his observers accounting for no less than 26 aircraft and balloons. He was awarded the RAF's first DFC and Bar to this. After the War he wrote many magazine articles for Air Pictorial and wrote a history of his old Squadron.
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A post-Regency mahogany wheel barometer, the level signed Bernascone, Sheffield, 20cm silvered register, hygrometer, alcohol thermometer, convex mirror, the case with swan neck pediment, outlined throughout with boxwood stringing, 97.5cm high, c. 1830 Records show Luciano Bernescone as working between 1825-1845.
A Victorian gothic oak cased combined mantel timepiece and barometer, 19 th century, retailed by E.Greenwood and Co, London, 3.5” white enamel dial with Roman numerals above a 4.5” barometer dial with fahrenheit thermometer, all contained within gothic arched and foliate carved case on ogive plinth, 45cm high, 32cm wide, 12cm deep
An 18thC oak longcase clock, with dentil moulded swan neck and fluted pillared hood, ball and spike and ball and eagle finials, with canted sides, a full length shaped trunk door with central key within a shell oval patera, reeded quarter inset pillars, plain base with bracket feet, the 30cm square arched dial having rococo scroll applied spandrels, the arch with a roundel marked Geo. Clapham BRIGG, the chapter ring having Roman hour and Arabic minute numerals, the central floral engraved field having seconds ring and date crescent, eight day movement striking a bell, 217cm H.George Clapham of Brigg was clockmaker from c.1767 to c1790 and is listed in Lincolnshire Clock, Watch and Barometer makers by Wilbourn & Ellis. He is known to have produced several brass and painted dial clocks, including lunar arch and a three train extant.Brigg Clockmakers 1767-approxmately 1790The dates are working dates, and have appeared in "Watch and Clockmakers of Hull Vol 1 by the late G H Baille and Vol 2 Brian Loomes. The first date is Baille's and the second, Loomes, who includes both dates in his volume.This particular clock which has a brass face has minute numbering in Arabic numerals, minute numbers tended to die out about 1800-1810. Matching 'blued' steel hands dated about 1790. Typical of the period before 1790, the "blued" steel hands did not match. The hands on this Clapham clock are unmatching.Matching brass hands had largely replaced steel ones about 1825-1830, by this time relatively few brass dial clocks were made. I (DR Harry Jackson) have at the time of writing seen two other George Clapham clocks; one of which had a brass dial and was seen in a house in Broughton and the other had a painted dial and was seen in the Brigg R.D.C. Offices - both some years ago.This clock was given to George Jackson who died on 28 May 1951, by Rev. A.W Lagenly, Vicar of Bottesford (included Ashley), 1896-1910. A condition of the gift was that George should keep the clock in the family; accordingly he gave it to me a few years before his death. The clock was overhauled by Mr Roger Tringham of Keadly in April 1978.It continues to keep good time after what is believed to be 200 years. 15 May 1978.
SCOTTISH ROSEWOOD, IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL, ABALONE, AND BRASS INLAID STICK BAROMETER, GARDNER GLASGOW MID 19TH CENTURY the Gothic style architectural case inlaid with foliate scrolls, flowers and urns, with dual inscribed gauge plates and a thermometer tube to the body mounted on an ivory scale with Fahrenheit and Recaumier measures; mercury filled 98cm high
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