A MAHOGANY MINIATURE LONGCASE TIMEPIECE WITH PASSING STRIKE AND MOONPHASE The dial signed for Thomas Far, Southampton, early 19th century and later The early 19th century movement with four-wheel train, shouldered plates, anchor escapement regulated by 21 inch pendulum and sounding each hour with a single blow on bell mounted above the plates, the 6 inch brass break-arch dial inscribed Tho's Far, Southampton to the silvered centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with cruciform half hour markers and Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll-pierced blued steel hands and Indian mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath arch with rolling moonphase incorporating terrestrial sphere engraved lunettes and curved silvered scale annotated for age of the moon to the upper margin, now in a later case with swan neck pediment over hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by Corinthian columns with brass caps and bases to hood, the trunk with stepped ogee throat moulding over shaped-top caddy moulded door flanked by quarter columns to trunk, on plinth base with conforming top mouldings and canted angles over bracket feet, together with a further stained oak separate box-shaped plinth. 149cm (58.75ins) high excluding additional plinth, 32cm (12.5ins) wide, 20cm (8ins) deep. Provenance: The Selwyn Demmy Collection. Thomas Far of Southampton does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources however the movement and possibly the dial of the current lot would appear to date from the early 19th century.