Five verge pocket watch movements Various makers, late 18th century and later Comprising five gilt full plate single fusee movements each with four columnar pillars and sprung three arm balance, the first with fine scroll pierced and chased backcock with grotesque mask decoration at the junction with the engraved foot flanked by silvered regulation disc with adjacent applied conforming infill opposing signature JOHN MORRIS, LONDON, No. 1788; the second also with fine scroll pierced and chased backcock with engraved foot flanked by regulation disc within decorated infill opposing applied plate signed J. Rothschild, BRISTOL, 2013; the third again with scroll pierced and chased backcock flanked by calibrated regulation sector opposing applied plate signed Cha's Davidson,London, 6492; the fourth similar to the third and signed Edw'd Crow, FAVERSHAM, 6014 and the fifth with radial scroll pierced balance bridge set beside bright-cut matted plate inset with silvered regulation disc and signed T. ASPINWALL, MANCHE ST.R 18 to a burnished banner, (all but the Aspinwall and Davidson movements without dials and in varying states of repair), the pillar plates 45mm (1.75ins) diameter and smaller, (5). The makers of four of the movements in the current lot are recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World with the following working dates: John Morris, London c. 1761; Charles Davidson, London c. 1775; Edward Crow, Faversham c. 1800 and Thomas Aspinwall, Manchester 1787-92. Joseph Rothschild is recorded in Moore, A.J. THE CLOCKMAKERS OF BRISTOL as working from several addresses in Bristol 1807-68.