ANTIQUE CLOCKS IN RESTORATION

Charles Howse, London, mahogany, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, strike/silent, maintaining power.

John Dwerrihouse, Berkley Square, London, mahogany, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, Strike/silent.

J. Leroux, London, mahogany, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, strike/silent, centre sweep date.

Richard Green, London, mahogany, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, strike/silent.

James Green, London, mahogany, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, strike/silent.

Richard Daking, Halstead, mahogany, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, moonphases to arch, fan inlays to case.

John Woolley, Codnor, oak + mahogany crossbanding, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, moonphases to arch.

John Culliford, Bristol, bird and flower marquetry, 11” square brass dial, month going, circa 1700.

William Gatford, Uxbridge, mahogany, brass dial, 8 day, late 18C, moonphases to arch, centre sweep date.

Gorfin of Stonehouse ( Gloucestershire ) an ( as yet ) unrecorded maker. This example, dating by style, circa 1795. The long door case is of quarter sawn oak with cast brass spire/ball centred pitched pediment, has “pillars attached” hood door and has good colour and patination. The 12” breakarch engraved and silvered dial has moonphases to arch, subsidiary seconds dial and “sad mouth” date aperture.Blued cut steel hands. The 8 day movement with 4 pillars and hourly ( rack ) striking. Small, neat, pretty. Height 82.7” ( 210 cms. ) or 80.7” ( 205 cms. ) ex. centre finial. Now fully restored, tested, calibrated, photographed and ready for loading on to website. Meanwhile pic's are available. Price will be £6,850.

Richard Grove of London ( Wood Street ) is recorded apprenticed 1749, Clockmakers Company 1760 - 1817.A classic, late 18C, London, long door, flame mahogany, 8 day, brass dial, longcase clock with breakarch top. 12” breakarch brass dial with strike/silent feature to arch, rococo spandrels, raised, silvered chapter ring, finely matted dial centre, recessed silvered subsidiary seconds dial and conventional “square” date box.Rich.d. Grove London engraved to applied silvered nameplate below centre of dial. Blued cut steel hands The high quality 8 day, 5 pillar movement with hourly ( rack ) striking and pull hour repeat. Height 86.6” ( 220 cms. ). Now fully restored, tested, calibrated, photographed and ready to be loaded on to website. Meanwhile - pic's are available. Price will be £15,750. N.B.I have just purchased a very similar clock by the same maker.It will be repatriated to U.K. mid April. Anyone for an almost matching pair ?

Tanner of London.A seemingly unrecorded maker.Classic, long door, flame mahogany, London, pagoda top, brass dial, longcase clock.Central fret to pagoda, side frets to hood, brass capped, fluted, brass insert, hood columns with matching trunk quarter columns and plain hood rear quarter columns.Raised panel to typical 2 step plinth, the lower, shaped. 12” breakarch brass dial with “starry sky” moonphases to arch, the detail showing High Water at London Bridge.Engraved moon “humps,” silvered chapter ring, silvered subsidiary seconds and date dials within the finely matted dial centre.Signed Tanner London to lower chapter ring. Nicely executed 4 pillar, 8 day movement with hourly ( rack ) striking and tee shaped front plate to take the geared ( constantly engaged ) moondrive work. It is interesting to note an original error when the movement was laid out – both top dial feet holes being drilled without allowance for their shoulders ( which would’ve fouled the moon disc ) necessitating two extra holes slightly further out along the tee.The bottom dial feet holes being correctly drilled.The extra holes could have been filled to “tidy up” the movement during restoration but it was felt best to leave them as being an individual quirk of manufacture. Blued cut steel hands, brass strip pendulum and typical brass bound weights. Height 98.7” ( 250.8 cms. ) or 93.5” ( 237.5 cms. ) ex finial. This clock is now fully restored, tested, calibrated, photographed and ready to be loaded on to website. Meanwhile - pic's are available. Price will be £15,750.

Spencer & Perkins of London recorded ( Snow Hill ) 1765 - 1810. A classic, long door, flame mahogany, London, pagoda top, painted dial longcase clock by one of the most respected London makers of the period.12” breakarch, plain painted dial with strike/silent to arch, seconds and subsidiary dials. High quality, 5 pillar, 8 day, hourly ( rack ) striking movement with pull hour repeat and strike/silent facility.The superb quality of the movement commented upon by the movement restorer. Classic, pagoda top case with 3 brass spire/ball finials, “wrigglework” decorated, red “silk” backed brass frets to pagoda and to hood sides, brass capped, brass insert fluted hood columns with matching brass insert trunk quarter columns and plain brass capped hood rear columns.Good flame mahogany veneers to trunk door and to raised base panel above typical two step plinth, the lower, shaped. Polished brass hands, brass strip pendulum, brass bound weights. Height 98.8” ( 251 cms. ) or 92.7” ( 235.5 cms. ) ex. finial. This clock is now fully restored,tested, calibrated, photographed and ready to be loaded on to website. Price will be £15,750.

Thos. ( Thomas ) Parnell of Canterbury is recorded - apprenticed 1773 to Richard Cramp, obtained his Freedom on 12th May 1784, known working “by the Westgate,” took apprentices - Charles Dowsett and Thomas Mummery in 1792 and 1799 respectively. Interestingly, it is stated that …….“no watches or clocks by him have been traced, though one was reported lost in July 1784” ( Kentish Gazette 10 - 14 July 1784 ). This ( apparently rare ) example is interesting in that the 12” breakarch brass dial has colourful, painted automata in the arch as follows :- Seesaw with male ( left ) and female ( right ) figures, driven from the pallet arbor. Sliding door activated on the warning, exposing a figure ( the Miller ). Windmill activated on the strike. Sliding door then closes. Very rare and interesting feature. The neat, breakarch top, long door, flame mahogany case with side windows to hood, brass capped brass insert fluted hood columns, plain brass capped hood rear quarter columns, brass insert canted fluted corners to trunk and two step base, the lower shaped. The 12” breakarch brass dial with automata to arch, raised chapter ring, rococo spandrels, typical late 18C “light touch” engraved and silvered dial centre featuring seconds dial, delicate scrolling, Thos. Parnell in script and CANTERBURY in block.Square date box above 6 o’clock position, blued, cut steel hands. Dating by style this clock is circa 1785. Height 82” ( 206 cms. ). This clock is now fully restored, tested, calibrated, photographed and ready to be loaded on to website. Meanwhile - pic's are available. It will cost £17,250.

Knight and Withers of Bristol recorded 1833 - 1837.A good, neat, short door, typically “Bristol” ebony strung, mahogany longcase clock with swan neck pediment, typically “Bristol” wavy detail to inner edge of hood door, brass capped fluted hood columns, canted corners to trunk and simple strip plinth to base.The 12” breakarch colourful painted dial by W. ( William ) Francis of Birmingham with highland figure to arch, seashell spandrels, and with matching subsidiary seconds and date dials.Polished and punch decorated brass hands. Dating by style this clock is circa 1835. N.B. William Francis the dialmaker worked ( at this period ) from 11, Smallbrook Street, Birmingham and died in 1833, his widow carrying on from the same address until 1843. Height 85” ( 216 cms. ) or 83” ( 211 cms. ) ex. finial.. This clock is now fully restored, tested, calibrated, photographed and ready to be loaded on to website. Meanwhile - pic's are available. It will cost £4,250.

Obadiah Smith of Ratcliffe Highway, London.A very good, month going, long door, inlaid chevron strung, highly figured contrasting walnut, early 18C, brass dial, longcase clock, the case of excellent proportions with breakarch top, typical "London," two step base and side windows to hood. The 12" breakarch brass dial signed Obadiah Smith Ratcliffe Highway London to wheatear edge engraved convex boss in arch and having "feathered head" spandrels, "starburst" to centre of subsidiary seconds dial, ringed winding holes and conventional square datebox in the finely matted dial centre, above the 6 o'clock position. Blued cut steel hands. Unusually, the going and striking trains are transposed and the two winding holes are not "dropped" in the dial, the layout and appearance being that of a conventional 8 day example. The month going movement with 5 finned, ringed and knopped pillars striking on a single bell via a countwheel positioned on the backplate of the movement. N.B. Recorded apprenticed to Thomas Lumpkin, Master Citizen and Clockmaker, Middlesex, London 30th May 1718 for 7 years at a premium of £20, then transferred to John Allen in May 1720 when, it is believed, Thomas Lumpkin died as he is not known after 1719. Obadiah Smith was a known member of The Clockmakers Company in 1725 - about the time he made this clock.Recorded died 1727 at Kingston on Thames, Surrey so we may confidently date this clock to circa 1725. Now fully restored, tested, calibrated, photographed and to be loaded to website shortly. Please note that all my antique clock movements are stripped down to component level, then precisely rebuilt to original tolerances "last a lifetime" standards - not just made to work. Height is 88.5" ( 225 cms. ). It will cost £24,500.