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Clockmaker/By : David Collier of Gatley.

Duration: 8 day

Circa : Circa: 1760

Height : 82 inches.

Case :
Oak caddy top with fretwork to hood.
Turned oak hood columns with gesso caps.
Long door with wavy top and mahogany cross banding.
Quartered round columns to trunk and canted corners to base.
Plinth at base.
Oak backboard.
Width at widest point 22.75" (hood).

Dial :
12" square brass dial with recessed penny moon dial and large recessed calendar dial.
Penny moon in original paint featuring 1/4 moon, full moon, 3/4 moon and dark moon.
Lunar month calendar chapter ring appearing in box below penny moon.
Foliate engraving on matted background and twisted-leaf half-hour markers on chapter.
ring which are typical of mid-century Manchester region dials.
Maker's name ' David Collier Gatley' engraved on silvered chapter ring.
Superb quality large cherub head brass spandrels.
Matching steel hour and minute hands.
Roman numerals.
In a small cartouche below 12 o'clock is engraved 'B' over' F+N' which was requested to be done by the original owner but the meaning is now unknown.

Maker :
David Collier (1) born c1721 at Heaton Norris and apprenticed to John Shepley (1) of Stockport. He then worked at Gatley Green (Cheshire) until circa 1780 when he moved to Eccles in Lancashire where he died in 1792. A variation of this dial has been seen featuring a Halifax moon instead of a penny moon He had two sons - Samuel and John - who also became clockmakers

John was born in 1762 and moved from Gatley to nearby Cheadle circa 1780. Aged 17, he married Alice Hampson at Eccles in 1779. 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.

Samuel was born c1750 and married in 1772, working in Eccles, died 1806.

Price : £ 6,500

Guarantee : 12 months