A rare Swiss polychrome painted tinplate figural `clock pedlar` timepiece, unsigned, mid to late 19th century. The miniature spring-driven movement with long pendulum and circular white enamel Roman numeral dial set into a case modelled as a wall clock with foliate spandrels and cottage scene painted break-arch dial supported on the chest of a figure in broad-brimmed hat, dark coat, red waistcoat and breeches, and carrying a bundle of pendulums in his left hand, with further dummy clock movement on his back (the sliding front concealing the winder), standing upon a wooden base, 37cm high

By repute - given to Thomas Henry Dallow, Chief Superintendent of Herefordshire Police, the great, great grandfather of the current owner, in the 19th Century, as a retirement gift (ex inf. vendor).