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Clockmaker/By : John Dalgleish of Edinburgh.

Duration: 8 Day.

Circa : 1765.

Height : 85.75 inches.

Case :
Finest mahogany case with swan neck and gilded rose shape paterae.
Boxwood fretwork below swan neck pediments.
Corinthian capped reeded pillars to hood with quartered pillars to rear.
Side observation windows to hood.
Long trunk door with wavy top and Corinthian capped reeded pillars to trunk.
Original hood door lock.
Canted corners base edges and boxwood fan inlay to base.
Width at widest point is 20.75 ins (hood top).
Bracket feet (original).

Dial :
12" x 16.5" brass arch dial with strike / silent option in arch.
Silvered Chapter ring and seconds dial with unusual Peacock style spandrels to dial corners and in the arch aside the strike / silent feature.
Matted dial centre with cartouche carrying makers name and salt box date aperture.
Matching steel hour and minute hands.
Roman numerals

Maker :
John Dalgleish clock and watchmaker.

Around the time this clock was made Edinburgh, as a fashionable centre produced, very similar dials and movements to the London Style but often with swan neck cases, a feature not found in London.

Admitted as a freeman of the Incorporation of Hammermen on 17 December 1742, his essay being a watch movement made in his own shop.

Burgess of Edinburgh, in the right of his father, John Dalgleish, freeman locksmith, on 11 February 1747. Deacon of the Hammermen in 1749.

Captain of the trained bands of the city when the Jacobite Army, under Prince Charles Edward Stuart, entered Edinburgh in mid September 1745.

He married on 31 December 1742, Hannah, daughter of John Johnston, merchant and sometime baillie of Culrose, Fife.

Father of Laurence Dalgleish, clockmaker who succeeded his father and was admitted as a freeman of the Incorporation of Hammermen on 12 December 1773 and a Burgess of Edinburgh in the right of his father 3 days later.

Died pre 1771

Price : £ 8,250

Guarantee : 12 months