Turret clock tops it off at Bath auction
The latest Clocks & Watches sale at Gardiner Houlgate (20% buyer’s premium) in Corsham, near Bath, was topped at £16,000 by this large iron two-train turret clock movement by Thomas Cooke (1807-68) of York. The estimate was £1000-2000.
As well as a maker’s plaque reading T Cooke & Sons, York from 1860- 90 it is inscribed on the …