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An early 19th Century mahogany-cased 8-day painted-dial longcase clock with moon phase William Parke, New Mills, circa 1820 sold with pendulum and key
4 – 6 November 2008, 13:00 GMT
Chester£700 - £900
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William Parke, New Mills, circa 1820
Having a 14-inch broken-arched Roman dial with subsidiary seconds dial, terrestrial calendar crescent, and inscribed maker's name "Wm. Parke/New Mills", within gilt floral spandrels, the arch with lunar calendar scale over rolling moon painted with a ship flying the Red Ensign, plus a waterside thatched cottage, the hemispheres each painted with the Dove of the Holy Spirit with olive branch of Peace, flying over the Earth, the movement, with anonymous false-plate, rack-striking on a bell, the case having three brass ball-and-spire finials over a swan-neck pediment and moulded square columns, the triple-arched trunk door between conforming columns, on a matching base and ogee bracket feet 241cm high (sold with pendulum and key)
Having a 14-inch broken-arched Roman dial with subsidiary seconds dial, terrestrial calendar crescent, and inscribed maker's name "Wm. Parke/New Mills", within gilt floral spandrels, the arch with lunar calendar scale over rolling moon painted with a ship flying the Red Ensign, plus a waterside thatched cottage, the hemispheres each painted with the Dove of the Holy Spirit with olive branch of Peace, flying over the Earth, the movement, with anonymous false-plate, rack-striking on a bell, the case having three brass ball-and-spire finials over a swan-neck pediment and moulded square columns, the triple-arched trunk door between conforming columns, on a matching base and ogee bracket feet 241cm high (sold with pendulum and key)