A Victorian mahogany quarter-chiming bracket clock Robert Hay, London, circa 1850 The substantial six pillar triple chain fusee movement with very thick plates and half-deadbeat escapement regulated by long lenticular bob pendulum with wide-jaw T-bar suspension, chiming the quarters on a graduated nest of eight bells and sounding the hour on a coiled gong mounted on a vertical iron strap behind the movement, the 10.5 inch wide cream painted lancet-shaped Roman numeral dial with pierced steel trefoil hands beneath small subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT selection dial and floral spray painted infill to apex, the lower margin signed Robert Hay, London surrounded by three further floral sprays, the lancet-shaped case with hinged glazed dial aperture to front, rectangular windows to sides and triangular topped glazed door to rear, on stepped ogee moulded skirt base, 60cm (23.75ins) high. Robert Hay, London does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources. From this it is perhaps appropriate to speculate that that he was either a retailer or perhaps a journeyman who spent his career exclusively working for others rather than setting-up on his own. It is interesting to note that three clockmakers with the same surname are recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working during the 1770's and 80's; John 1770, William who gained his freedom of the Clockmaker's Company in 1774, and James who was apprenticed in 1785. It is possible that Robert Hay was related to one or more of the above and may have even worked with or for one of them.
A Victorian mahogany quarter-chiming bracket clock Robert Hay, London, circa 1850 The substantial six pillar triple chain fusee movement with very thick plates and half-deadbeat escapement regulated by long lenticular bob pendulum with wide-jaw T-bar suspension, chiming the quarters on a graduated nest of eight bells and sounding the hour on a coiled gong mounted on a vertical iron strap behind the movement, the 10.5 inch wide cream painted lancet-shaped Roman numeral dial with pierced steel trefoil hands beneath small subsidiary STRIKE/SILENT selection dial and floral spray painted infill to apex, the lower margin signed Robert Hay, London surrounded by three further floral sprays, the lancet-shaped case with hinged glazed dial aperture to front, rectangular windows to sides and triangular topped glazed door to rear, on stepped ogee moulded skirt base, 60cm (23.75ins) high. Robert Hay, London does not appear to be recorded in the usual sources. From this it is perhaps appropriate to speculate that that he was either a retailer or perhaps a journeyman who spent his career exclusively working for others rather than setting-up on his own. It is interesting to note that three clockmakers with the same surname are recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working during the 1770's and 80's; John 1770, William who gained his freedom of the Clockmaker's Company in 1774, and James who was apprenticed in 1785. It is possible that Robert Hay was related to one or more of the above and may have even worked with or for one of them.
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