Richard Cole, Butter Market, Ipswich. An unusual and large silver key wind full hunter pocket watch London Hallmark for 1798-9Offered from the T P Camerer Cuss CollectionRichard Cole, Butter Market, Ipswich. An unusual and large silver key wind full hunter pocket watchDate: London Hallmark for 1798-9Movement: Finely engraved gilt full plate fusee verge, pierced balance cock with engraved foliate scrolls, an urn, a lion mask and crossed palms, Joseph Bosley's form of regulation, round baluster pillars, No.1068Dial: White enamel with regulator style black Arabic numeral hour markers, outer minute divisions, large subsidiary seconds, winding aperture at 3, blued steel spade hands, start/stop lever to edge of dial operating whip to contrate wheelCase: Polished consularSigned: Movement, case stamped 'WL' possibly for William LewisSize: 60mmRichard Cole was the first in a dynasty of watchmakers and his son, also named Richard, founded with Joseph Usher the well-known watch and chronometer makers, Usher & Cole.Provenance:John Francis ColeT P Camerer Cuss CollectionIllustrated:A Watchmaking Centenary, Usher & Cole, J F Cole and T P Camerer Cuss Published Privately, 1961 figure 3The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches, T P & T A Camerer Cuss, AC C 1976, plate 91 page 158 and figure 3 page 285