George Graham No. 734 A George II burr walnut eight-day longcase clock with original numbered winding key. Circa 1735/40 The case with boxwood and ebony line-inlaid panel to the front and sides of the plinth with double footed skirt, concave moulding beneath the rectangular trunk door twice punch-numbered 734 to the top of the leading edge and again on the interior face of the door above the substantial chamfered brass hinges, the hood with brass-capped three-quarter columns supporting the frieze with original pierced walnut frets, similar original pierced walnut frets to the sides, the moulded caddy top now lacking finial (see notes), the 12½ in. square brass dial signed Geo: Graham London at the base beneath the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced and chamfered blued steel hour and minute hands, the matted centre with large diameter subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture with pin-hole adjustment, Indian mask-and-foliate double-screwed spandrels, bolt-and-shutter maintaining power lever by chapters II and III, latches to the dial feet and also to the five substantial pillars of the movement with thick brass rectangular plates, the going train with original deadbeat escapement, original rectangular-section brass rod pendulum with large brass-cased lead lenticular bob terminating with a brass nib-piece with the original calibrated rating nut, the strike train with racks planted on the front plate and strike on the original bell, the movement backplate punch-numbered 734 at the base in the centre, right angle brass securing bracket fixing to a brass T-bar screwed to the top of the backboard; with the original winding key punch-numbered 734 with rectangular-section shaft and ebony handle, together with correspondence dated January to April 1944 to and from J.C. Hirst (the buyer) and P.J. Ormiston (the Secretary to the Duke of Buccleuch, Dalkeith Palace) 7 ft. 10 in. (238 cm.) high
George Graham No. 734 A George II burr walnut eight-day longcase clock with original numbered winding key. Circa 1735/40 The case with boxwood and ebony line-inlaid panel to the front and sides of the plinth with double footed skirt, concave moulding beneath the rectangular trunk door twice punch-numbered 734 to the top of the leading edge and again on the interior face of the door above the substantial chamfered brass hinges, the hood with brass-capped three-quarter columns supporting the frieze with original pierced walnut frets, similar original pierced walnut frets to the sides, the moulded caddy top now lacking finial (see notes), the 12½ in. square brass dial signed Geo: Graham London at the base beneath the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced and chamfered blued steel hour and minute hands, the matted centre with large diameter subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture with pin-hole adjustment, Indian mask-and-foliate double-screwed spandrels, bolt-and-shutter maintaining power lever by chapters II and III, latches to the dial feet and also to the five substantial pillars of the movement with thick brass rectangular plates, the going train with original deadbeat escapement, original rectangular-section brass rod pendulum with large brass-cased lead lenticular bob terminating with a brass nib-piece with the original calibrated rating nut, the strike train with racks planted on the front plate and strike on the original bell, the movement backplate punch-numbered 734 at the base in the centre, right angle brass securing bracket fixing to a brass T-bar screwed to the top of the backboard; with the original winding key punch-numbered 734 with rectangular-section shaft and ebony handle, together with correspondence dated January to April 1944 to and from J.C. Hirst (the buyer) and P.J. Ormiston (the Secretary to the Duke of Buccleuch, Dalkeith Palace) 7 ft. 10 in. (238 cm.) high
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