This Longcase Oak's Maker - Wm. ( William ) Gorfin of Stonehouse ( Gloucester ) is ( as yet ) an unrecorded maker.
This Longcase Oak's Movement - 8 day, 4 pillar movement with hourly ( rack ) striking and well executed moondrive mechanism. - Price: £6,850
ANTIQUE Longcase Oak CLOCK - LCOAK 316 |
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| Title | LCOAK 316 |
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| Case | Good, small, well proportioned, long door, quarter sawn oak case with cast brass spire/ball central finial to broken arch pediment. Typical "pillars attached" hood door, matching hood rear quarter columns, shaped top to trunk door and simple plain strip plinth to base. Good colour and good patination. | |
| Dial | 12" breakarch engraved and silvered brass dial with moonphases to arch and THE MOONS AGE engraved to a "rainbow" at top of arch. Subsidiary seconds dial and "sad mouth" date aperture. Signed Wm. Gorfin Stonehouse to dial centre. Blued cut steel hands. | |
| Movement | 8 day, 4 pillar movement with hourly ( rack ) striking and well executed moondrive mechanism. | |
| Maker | Wm. ( William ) Gorfin of Stonehouse ( Gloucester ) is ( as yet ) an unrecorded maker. | |
| Date | Dating by style circa 1795. | |
| Height | 82.7" ( 210 cms. ) or 80.7" ( 205 cms. ) ex. Finial. | |
| Price | £6,850 - SOLD | |