Marcks and spender – carriage clock attracts buyers at Hampshire sale
Pitched at £500-800, this grand sonnerie carriage clock came with little information for bidders at Jacobs & Hunt’s (22% buyer’s premium) sale in Liss other than plentiful illustrations and the name C Marcks & Co, Bombay and Poona engraved to the silvered dial.
Marcks, which still exists as a re-booted operation in Mumbai, was the late 19th-early 20th centur…