A fine and rare George I oak eight-day musical longcase clock Benjamin Rodgers, Chesterfield, circa 1730 The substantial five-pillar triple train inside countwheel bell-striking movement playing a choice of two tunes via eight bells with fifteen hammers every four hours, with original anchor escapement and outside fly with adjustable vanes for the music train, the 12 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds and foliate engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within an applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes and foliate half-hour markers, the lower edge signed Benjamin Rodgers, the angles with female mask and scroll cast spandrels, with tune selection switch at 9 o'clock, the case with elaborate moulded caddy and ball finials above integral columns to hood above shaped-top long door with lenticle to trunk, on plinth base with moulded skirt, 242cm high. Benjamin Rodgers is recorded in Hughes, Roy G. and Craven, Maxwell Clockmakers & Watchmakers of DERBEYSHIRE as working in Chesterfield circa 1729-40. Provenance: The Workshop of John Hooper.
A fine and rare George I oak eight-day musical longcase clock Benjamin Rodgers, Chesterfield, circa 1730 The substantial five-pillar triple train inside countwheel bell-striking movement playing a choice of two tunes via eight bells with fifteen hammers every four hours, with original anchor escapement and outside fly with adjustable vanes for the music train, the 12 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds and foliate engraved calendar aperture to the matted centre within an applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes and foliate half-hour markers, the lower edge signed Benjamin Rodgers, the angles with female mask and scroll cast spandrels, with tune selection switch at 9 o'clock, the case with elaborate moulded caddy and ball finials above integral columns to hood above shaped-top long door with lenticle to trunk, on plinth base with moulded skirt, 242cm high. Benjamin Rodgers is recorded in Hughes, Roy G. and Craven, Maxwell Clockmakers & Watchmakers of DERBEYSHIRE as working in Chesterfield circa 1729-40. Provenance: The Workshop of John Hooper.
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