Old brass clock.

Picked up a few things today and this clock was one of them. Bloody heavy, brass, front opens and on the back someone has engraved
British ambassador Saloon
Spelling not too flash. Wound it and it did still work. 6 inches across has come out of something reminds me of a rail type clock but maybe not big enough.
Any ideas on age and what it would have come from much appremediated. Chris

 

It is a ship's bulkhead clock that may date from the middle of the last century.

Purely hypothetically, it may have come from the saloon of a small craft that was rather grandiosely named 'British Ambassador'.

As a photographic aside, I recommend that any pictures with flash burn be discarded and retaken under better lighting conditions, such as daylight.

 

Thanks af and point taken

 

Found this maybe it survived

 

Wow do you think its that old cat find a makers mark unless the sf is abbreviated for something the only thing I found was seth thomas

 

It took my morning brain a minute to figure that out, but I agree with your phptpgraphic advice. I can't pronounce it though.

 

Come now! Nothing hard about that. Fip tip graphic.



Say it with panache, and you Will Be Believed.

 

I've been practicing, and can now say phptp, without the i's. Although the i's have it of course.

 

The clock is compatible with a 1958 ship. It would not surprise me if it was the one you found. Early ship's clocks had deeper cases to accomodate a fusee movement.This one has a going barrel lever movement. Quite possibly made by Smiths English Clocks.
It would be usual for such saleable fittings to be removed during de-commissioning or scrapping. It is not impossible that someone connected to the ship kept it as a souvenir and scratched the information on the back.
S amd F stand for slow and fast.