Brass Dials

J. Wilde - Macclesfield stock no. 1038
A good example of a Lancashire Chippendale style longcase clock.

The eight day duration movement striking the hours on a bell. The white dial showing seconds, with date aperture and with moonphase feature to the arch. The corners are painted in a geometric pattern . A fine mahogany case standing on bracket feet. The plinth is fitted with canted and reeded corners, the long trunk door has Gothic arches with a center finial to the top of the door, flanked with triple gun-barrel columns. The hood with turned and reeded columns with swan neck pediment and brass paterae and finials.

Price: $18,500 Height: 7'10" , Ca 1785

 

W. Massey - Nantwich stock no. 1215

A rare and exceptional example of a Lancashire/Chippendale style longcase clock.

The eight day duration movement striking the hours on a bell. The white dial showing seconds, with date aperture and with moonphase feature to the arch. The corners are painted as ripe fruit with blossoms. The finely made case is of exceptionally rare Pollard Oak standing on bracket feet. The plinth has canted corners and has a center field of Pollard Oak with Pollard Oak crossbanding. The trunk has a door with Gothic Arches and is crossbanded with Pollard Oak and an Ebony escutcheon, and is flanked by triple gun-barrel columns with Ebony rings to base, center and top. The hood is fitted with quadruple gun-barrel columns standing on a square oak plinth, the barrels have Ebony rings to the base, center and top, the swan neck pediment embracing an inverted crenellated finial.

Price: $19,500 Height 7'2" , 1824 - 34

 

R. Mullell - Withymoor stock no. 1070
An impressive rich mahogany longcase clock.

The eight day duration movement striking the hours on a bell. The white dial showing both seconds, with a date aperture, and moonphase feature to the arch. The corners are well painted scenes depicting the four corners of the Empire. The mahogany case is standing on bracket feet, the plinth of flame mahogany crossbanded with rosewood , the long door with an oval inlay of an urn is flanked with turned and reeded columns with superb brass Corinthian Capitals. The hood with turned and reeded columns, fitted with superb brass Corinthian Capitals, a swan neck pediment terminating in brass paterae.

Price: $16,000 Height: 8' , Ca. 1820

 

L.Desh - Glasgow stock no. 1257

An impressive and rare Burl Walnut Scottish Long Case clock.

This very fine and impressive Scottish long case Drum Head clock is veneered to the front and sides with the finest Burl Walnut. The elegantly shaped Bombe plinth stands on its original feet and supports the tapered case trunk door using  moldings sympathetic to the Bombe plinth. The door has crisply carved upper and lower corbels which blend into the fine carvings under and surrounding the hood. The 8 day weight driven clock movement strikes the hour on a large coiled gong. This fine clock retains it's original Scottish type cast iron weights and it's original cylindrical pendulum bob with wood rod. The white painted dial has a subsidiary dial showing the seconds and indicates the time with it's original blued steel hands.

The dial is signed; L, Desh   32. Dundas St. Glasgow.
Leonard Desh is recorded as working in Glasgow in 1860.

Price: $18,500 Height: 8' , Ca. 1820