D. Edmonds

Life & work

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Timeline

D. Edmonds's recorded dates, dated events from this profile and its sources, and dated pieces and sales from the object catalogue. Dates are as each record gives them.

1. c. 1775 · Career

   First recorded as working

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2. 1778 · Career

   Surviving examples are verge fusee watches in silver pair cases; one sold by the dealer Cogs & Pieces, signed and numbered 912, has London hallmarks for 1778.

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3. 1778 · Career

   Verge pair-cased watch no. 912, London hallmarks for 1778; sold by Cogs & Pieces.

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4. 1787 · Career

   D. Edmonds was a Liverpool watchmaker of the late eighteenth century; the Metropolitan Museum of Art records him as active from 1787 to 1810.

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5. 1787 · Career

   Contributors to the NAWCC message board, citing Baillie's and Dr Kemp's listings, give his Liverpool working period as 1787 to 1810; Kemp records nine watches or movements attributed to him in the Liverpool Museum, hallmarked between 1775 and 1804 and all with verge escapements.

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6. 1810 · Career

   Last recorded as working

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7. 1818 · Career

   Forum contributors also report Edmonds movements in Coventry-made pair cases hallmarked as late as 1818–19, and one concluded that Edmonds worked in Liverpool from about 1775 to about 1820.

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Documented works

• Silver watch, late 18th century, 5.7 cm; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 89.2.94a, b, gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889.
• Verge pair-cased watch no. 912, London hallmarks for 1778; sold by Cogs & Pieces.

Where sources differ

• Working dates: the Met and Baillie/Kemp (as cited on the NAWCC board) give 1787–1810; Loomes's Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World gives 1775–1810; dated cases run from 1778 to 1818–19.
• Baillie lists two D. Edmonds of Liverpool in the same period; a forum contributor considers them duplicate entries for one man.

Collecting significance

The catalogued pieces listed on this page show the kinds of objects auction houses, dealers and museums attribute to this maker; each attribution is the source's own.

Firms, key models & movements

No firm, model or movement in this encyclopedia is yet recorded under this maker's name.

In the object catalogue

2 catalogued objects are recorded under D. Edmonds. Attributions are as given by each source and are not independent authentication.

• D. Edmonds Pair-cased Silver Verge WatchVerge & pair-cased watch
• D. Edmonds Silver Pocket WatchVerge & pair-cased watch · late 18th century

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Provenance

Where the 2 catalogued pieces by D. Edmonds were recorded, with the collectors, owners and sales their records name.

Collectors, owners and donors

• Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889Credit Line · D. Edmonds Silver Pocket Watch

Auction history

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