MADAM – Poor old John Ellicott must be turning in his grave after having your article associate him with the spring clock bearing what is clearly a fake name (see last week’s International Events, page 44).
The clock [sold for €15,000 (£13,640) at Veilinghuis de Jager (35% buyer’s premium)] in Goes, Zeeland, certainly does not date from the period when Ellicott (or the firm) was at “the height of his powers”.
It shows all the signs of being a European made clock, probably Dutch, bearing a fake ‘London’ name and dating from some years after the death of Ellicott in 1772.