$22,515
Japanned Quarter-Striking and Musical Longcase Clock by Joseph Eayre, St. Neots, England, c. 1765, the oak case with black background, caddy top, flat gilt and raised japanned decoration on waist door, base and sides, engaged columns flanking the hood door, tombstone-shaped waist door, base plinth with two-stage base molding and low bun feet, 13 in. composite brass dial with finely matted center and recessed date ring, silvered components including a Roman numeral chapter ring with quarter-hour marks, seconds bit, subsidiary dials for Chime-Not Chime and Strike-Quarter Silent-Silent , ten-tune selection arch listing The 113 Psalm, The Recruting Officer, A Minuet by Mr. Handel , Britain Strike Home , and others, recessed name boss marked Joseph Eayre St. Neots framed with floral and herringbone engraving, brass spandrels and blued steel hands, three train, seven pillar movement with recoil escapement, rack and snail hour and quarter-hour strike on two bells, a nest of fourteen bells and twenty-eight hammers mounted above the 13 1/4 in. pinned cylinder, all regulated by a pendulum and powered by three cast iron weights, ht. 104 in. Note: For information on Joseph Eayre see T.M.N. Owen, Church Bells of Huntingdonshire , 1899, pp. 100, 120, and John Milburn, "Some Horological Extracts from Stukeley's Diaries," Antiquarian Horological Society , Vol. 6, No. 4, 1969, pp. 206-211. Japanned decoration extensively restored and repainted, caddy top replaced from the crown moldin Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-07-25
