L John Ellicott

~. L John Ellicott, London, No. 1610, with London hallmarks for 1734. Fine 22 ct. gold pair cased watch. Double body outer, the bezel repoussé with flowers and pierced with foliage, the back repoussé with a mythological scene depicting Jupiter and Ebee, the border pierced and engraved with foliage and repoussé with four putti in cartouches. hlner double body bassine, polished, marked "I.B." (John Beesley). White enamel with Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute ring. Hinged gilt brass full plate with elaborate pillars pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage, fusee with chain, verge escapement, plain steel three-arm balance, flat balance spring, gilt brass cock pierced and engraved with a mask and scrolling foliage, diamond endstone. Signed on the back plate. In very good condition. Diam. 48 mm. Notes John Ellicott, Born in 1706, established himself in business about 1728 at Sweeting's Alley, which was situated just where the statue of 82 Rowland Hill nove stands, near the Royal Exchange. After the fire which destroyed the Royal Exchange in 1838, Sweeting's Ailey was not rebuilt. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738, being recommended for that honour by Sir Flans Sloane, Bart, Martin Folkes, John Senex, the celebrated globe maker, and John I-Iadley, the astronomer. At the meeting of the Royal Society, he became acquainted with James Ferguson, who afterwards frequently visited Ellicott's private flouse, at St. John's Hackney, where an observatory