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Clockmaker/By : Thomas Richardson of Weaverham.
Duration : 8 Day.
Circa : 1785
Height : 80.5 inches
Case :
Honey coloured oak with mahogany cross banding.
Turned pillars to hood, half turned to rear of hood and quarter pillars to trunk.
Glass panel to hood with foliate design against blue background.
Long trunk door with wavy top.
Canted mahogany sides to base with bracket feet.
Panel in base and bracket feet.
Width at widest point 22.5 ins (hood).
Dial :
13" square brass dial with large cherub head style spandrels.
Silvered Chapter ring with unusual shell half hour markers.
Hatched dial centre of the Liverpool style silvered second chapter ring.
Matching steel hour and minute hands and matching second and calendar hands.
Roman numerals.
Maker :
Thomas Richardson of Weaverham in Cheshire, engraved as 'Weverham' on dial. He was known to have been working in 1795.
Price : SOLD
Guarantee : 12 months.
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