AN EARLY VICTORIAN EBONISED SMALL FOUR-GLASS LIBRARY MANTEL TIMEPIECEFRODSHAM, LONDON, CIRCA 1840The four columnar pillar single chain fee movement with ogee-shouldered plates incorporating conforming arched cut-outs to lower margin, anchor escapement regulated by lenticular bob pendulum and screw holdfast clamp mounted on the backplate, the 3.25 by 4 inch silvered brass Roman numeral dial with blued steel moon hands over engraved signature Frodsham, Gracechurch Street, London to lower margin, the case with hinged brass carrying handle to the stepped shallow gabled chamfer tand over canted silvered brass fillet inset glazed front door, the sides and rear door with further gable-shaped glazed apertures incorporating similar fillets to interior, on ogee moulded skirt base withpressed bun feet.19cm (7.5ins) high with handle down, 14cm (5.5ins) wide, 11cm (4.25ins) deep.John Frodsham is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working 1822-49. He was son to William junior and father of Henry John and George Edward and moved to 31 Gracechurch Street in 1837. After his death in 1849 he was succeeded by his son George Edward Frodsham (born in 1831) firstly in partner with Edward Baker and then alone (possibly from 1864). In 1882 the biness became G. E. Frodsham andpany and then a Limitedpany in 1888. The following year (1889) the biness advertised as being clockmakers to the Queen, Prince of Wales, The Royal Observatory and The Lords of the Admiralty and continued under George Edward Frodsham until 1901 when he presumably retired.