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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jivvy, post: 824898, member: 8184&quot;]Reading the <a href="https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/28091/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/28091/" rel="nofollow">Bonham&#039;s press release</a>: <i>&quot;The clock may have passed out of royal hands as early as 1694, the year of Queen Mary&#039;s death, or on the death of the King in 1702. Officers of the royal households were unpaid, and were by custom entitled to a share of the furnishings of royal palaces on the death of the sovereign.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Evidently, the 1949 sale was by the great-grandson of someone who bought the case &quot;in France.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Charity shop, no doubt. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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