Clockmaker/By : David Collier of Gatley, Cheshire.

Duration : 8 day.

Circa : 1760.

Height : 88 inches. (excl finials)

Case :
Swan neck with paterae fronting square caddy top / platform often used by clock case makers in the Manchester area.
Painted foliate area below swan necks on green background.
Oak with mahogany cross banding to hood and trunk.
Long door with wavy top and inlaid serpent in centre also inlay to base.
Quartered round columns to trunk and canted corners to base.
Bracket fee.
Oak backboard.
Width at widest point 22.25" (hood).

Dial :
Brass rolling moon dial with scenes of gentry fishermen and engraved hemispheres.
Maker's name ' David Collier Gatley' engraved in arch.
Superb quality large cherub head brass spandrels.
Dial 18.5" x 13" with well engraved centre and winding holes to look like flower heads.
Silvered minute chapter ring with half hour markers, salt box calendar aperture and recessed seconds dial with star burst centre.
Matching steel hour and minute hands.
Roman numerals.

Maker :
David Collier 11, Gatley, born 1740. He was the son of DAVID 1 of Etchells, the father of JOHN of Cheadle, the brother of SAMUEL of Eccles and Gatley, and the nephew of THOMAS of Eccles.

A variation of this dial has been seen featuring a seconds dial instead of a penny moon
and brass season spandrels instead of large cherub heads.

His son John, born 1762, also became a clockmaker and moved from Gatley to nearby Cheadle circa 1780. Aged 17, he married Alice Hampson at Eccles in 1799. His gravestone reads 'John Collier of Cheadle, clockmaker, died June 11th 1816, aged 54.

A fine painted Wilson dial longcase clock signed John Collier with ships at 3 and 9.00 o' clock has been noted

Price : £ 5,950

Guarantee : 12 months.