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A mid 18th Century oak and yew-wood cased 8-day brass dial longcase clock John Roberts, Ruabon, (pre-1764) sold with two weights, pendulum and winder
4 – 6 November 2008, 13:00 GMT
ChesterSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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John Roberts, Ruabon, (pre-1764)
Having a 12-inch square dial with Roman hours, Arabic minutes, foliate half-hour divisions, and an inner band of single-hand quarter-hour divisions, engraved "Jno. Roberts Ruabon", framing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, terrestrial calendar crescent and engraved flower, within mask-centred spandrels, the movement rack-striking on a bell, the case having a flat hood with burr-yew frieze over sunken hood columns, the long trunk door having herringbone inlay and yew crossbanding, the trunk itself also yew crossbanded, on a conforming base, wavy apron and bracket feet 202cm high (sold with two weights, pendulum and winder)
Having a 12-inch square dial with Roman hours, Arabic minutes, foliate half-hour divisions, and an inner band of single-hand quarter-hour divisions, engraved "Jno. Roberts Ruabon", framing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial, terrestrial calendar crescent and engraved flower, within mask-centred spandrels, the movement rack-striking on a bell, the case having a flat hood with burr-yew frieze over sunken hood columns, the long trunk door having herringbone inlay and yew crossbanding, the trunk itself also yew crossbanded, on a conforming base, wavy apron and bracket feet 202cm high (sold with two weights, pendulum and winder)
Footnotes
Literature: See Linnaird, William, Wales - Clocks and Clockmakers, Mayfield Books, 2003, p. 221 for a brief biography of this maker, plus an image of a dial (fig. 12.68) "by John Roberts of Ruabon made before 1764 when he moved to Wrexham".
Provenance: Broxton Hall, Cheshire.