A 19th century mahogany longcase clock, 36cm arched enamel dial inscribed T Saltby, Grantham, profusely painted with an Eastern mounted soldier on ... the battlefield, the arch with an officer dancing with his lady, the spandrels with the Continents personified, Arabic numerals, twin-winding holes, eight-day movement striking on a bell, the hood with swan neck pediment, arched rectangular door to waist inlaid with a shell patera, flanked by reeded canted angles, outlined throughout with boxwood stringing, bracket feet, 224cm high Thomas Saltby was a peripatetic maker in the Grantham area. He was born the son of John Saltby at Aswarby in 1784, would have been apprenticed to Nathan Shaw of New Sleaford from 1796 to 1803 and married Ann Parker there in 1807 and is recorded as working over the following 15 years. Read more
A 19th century mahogany longcase clock, 36cm arched enamel dial inscribed T Saltby, Grantham, profusely painted with an Eastern mounted soldier on ... the battlefield, the arch with an officer dancing with his lady, the spandrels with the Continents personified, Arabic numerals, twin-winding holes, eight-day movement striking on a bell, the hood with swan neck pediment, arched rectangular door to waist inlaid with a shell patera, flanked by reeded canted angles, outlined throughout with boxwood stringing, bracket feet, 224cm high Thomas Saltby was a peripatetic maker in the Grantham area. He was born the son of John Saltby at Aswarby in 1784, would have been apprenticed to Nathan Shaw of New Sleaford from 1796 to 1803 and married Ann Parker there in 1807 and is recorded as working over the following 15 years. Read more
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