8th Sep, 2023 10:00
Silver and Objects of Vertu
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An eighteenth-century gilt copper pair-cased pocket watch, plain outer case, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals and hands constructed from gold-coloured metal, the movement signed, "Pickett & Rundell London" and numbered 704, diameter 5cm approx
Philip Rundell was apprenticed and went into the London goldsmith's business Theed & Pickett which became Pickett & Rundell in 1781. The firm had a major showroom at 32 Ludgate Hill and manufacturing subsidiaries, one run by Benjamin Smith (and for some years Digby Scott) in Greenwich, and another by Paul Storr in Dean Street, London. In 1799 Rundell is estimated as the joint-eighth richest non-royal person in Britain, owning £1M. He was one of ten known such British millionaires in 1799.
Sold for £220
An eighteenth-century gilt copper pair-cased pocket watch, plain outer case, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals and hands constructed from gold-coloured metal, the movement signed, "Pickett & Rundell London" and numbered 704, diameter 5cm approx
Auction: Silver and Objects of Vertu, 8th Sep, 2023
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