A William and Mary eight-day longcase clock movement with 10 inch dial Unsigned, circa 1690 and later The outside countwheel bell striking movement with four (formerly six) finned pillars pinned through the backplate and anchor escapement for regulation by seconds pendulum, the 10 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, calendar aperture and ringed winding holes to the matted centre within applied narrow Roman numeral chapter ring now reversed with the rear engraved with feathered cruciform half hour markers and small Arabic fine minutes within the slender minute ring, now with rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles, (the trains with significant historic reworking and replacements, no pendulum or weights). Although the current movement has seen a significant degree of reworking and replacements to the trains several interesting details survive. Perhaps the most notable are the movement pillars which are unusually pinned through the backplate. This detail is very rarely seen on London made examples but appears in the work of John London of Bristol in particular a movement illustrated in Darken, Jeff (ed.) TIME & PLACE English Country Clocks 1600-1840. In addition to being pinned through the backplate the present mechanism was also originally made with six (perhaps even seven) pillars which again mirrors the example by John London. The dial is also noteworthy in the plate is particularly thick at the centre (in excess of one eighth of an inch) but thins down to less than half of this thickness at the edges. This feature has been observed on early examples from the workshop of Joseph Knibb in particular during his time in Oxford and is suggestive of a high quality approach by a regional maker. The chapter ring has been reversed but retains its original engraving to the reverse side. This engraving is fairly distinctive with very tight and heavily 'feathered' cruciform half hour markers which at first glance can be mistaken for asterisk markers - a design favoured by early West Country makers. The chapter ring is also fairly narrow measuring only 1.375 inches which is suggestive of an early date. The movement has clearly seen alterations mostly to the strike train. Evidence in the plates indicates that the pivots were positioned further towards the centre and form an inwards arc. This allowed for a seventh pillar to be positioned towards the right hand margin to match the one on the left. It would also appear that original escape wheel was of smaller diameter and the pallets were positioned lower down. From this it is maybe appropriate to speculate that the subsequent provision of a larger diameter escape wheel required the repositioning of the strike train due to lack of space. In all the current lot is very much an interesting relic which could either serve as a study-piece or be restored as a functioning relatively early movement with a 10 inch dial.
A William and Mary eight-day longcase clock movement with 10 inch dial Unsigned, circa 1690 and later The outside countwheel bell striking movement with four (formerly six) finned pillars pinned through the backplate and anchor escapement for regulation by seconds pendulum, the 10 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial, calendar aperture and ringed winding holes to the matted centre within applied narrow Roman numeral chapter ring now reversed with the rear engraved with feathered cruciform half hour markers and small Arabic fine minutes within the slender minute ring, now with rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles, (the trains with significant historic reworking and replacements, no pendulum or weights). Although the current movement has seen a significant degree of reworking and replacements to the trains several interesting details survive. Perhaps the most notable are the movement pillars which are unusually pinned through the backplate. This detail is very rarely seen on London made examples but appears in the work of John London of Bristol in particular a movement illustrated in Darken, Jeff (ed.) TIME & PLACE English Country Clocks 1600-1840. In addition to being pinned through the backplate the present mechanism was also originally made with six (perhaps even seven) pillars which again mirrors the example by John London. The dial is also noteworthy in the plate is particularly thick at the centre (in excess of one eighth of an inch) but thins down to less than half of this thickness at the edges. This feature has been observed on early examples from the workshop of Joseph Knibb in particular during his time in Oxford and is suggestive of a high quality approach by a regional maker. The chapter ring has been reversed but retains its original engraving to the reverse side. This engraving is fairly distinctive with very tight and heavily 'feathered' cruciform half hour markers which at first glance can be mistaken for asterisk markers - a design favoured by early West Country makers. The chapter ring is also fairly narrow measuring only 1.375 inches which is suggestive of an early date. The movement has clearly seen alterations mostly to the strike train. Evidence in the plates indicates that the pivots were positioned further towards the centre and form an inwards arc. This allowed for a seventh pillar to be positioned towards the right hand margin to match the one on the left. It would also appear that original escape wheel was of smaller diameter and the pallets were positioned lower down. From this it is maybe appropriate to speculate that the subsequent provision of a larger diameter escape wheel required the repositioning of the strike train due to lack of space. In all the current lot is very much an interesting relic which could either serve as a study-piece or be restored as a functioning relatively early movement with a 10 inch dial.
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