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A rare second quarter of the 18th century musical longcase clock playing 12 tunes on 13 bells and 25 hammers London an early 18th century lacquered musical longcase clock with 12 tunes Thomas Estwick, London image 1
A rare second quarter of the 18th century musical longcase clock playing 12 tunes on 13 bells and 25 hammers London an early 18th century lacquered musical longcase clock with 12 tunes Thomas Estwick, London image 2
A rare second quarter of the 18th century musical longcase clock playing 12 tunes on 13 bells and 25 hammers London an early 18th century lacquered musical longcase clock with 12 tunes Thomas Estwick, London image 3
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A rare second quarter of the 18th century musical longcase clock playing 12 tunes on 13 bells and 25 hammers London an early 18th century lacquered musical longcase clock with 12 tunes
Thomas Estwick, London

Fine Clocks
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare second quarter of the 18th century musical longcase clock playing 12 tunes on 13 bells and 25 hammers London an early 18th century lacquered musical longcase clock with 12 tunes

Thomas Estwick, London
The arched top with silk-backed giltwood sound fret over Doric columns, the trunk door with applied print framed by gilt chinoiserie decoration of figures and birds in landscapes, the sides with flowers, the 13 inch arched brass dial surmounted by an engraved silvered arc offering a choice of 12 tunes, comprising:

This great World's a Trouble
From Me to Thee
O lovely Charmer
A Young Virgin of 15
The Dame of Honour
The Happy Clown
The King Enjoys his Own
The 103 Psalm
The 113 Psalm
Lillibulero
Ormonds March
The Shady Bowers

centred by the painted rolling moonphase dial, the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring framed by mask and scroll spandrels, engraved foliage and a pair of subsidiaries for Strike/Silent and Chime/Not Chime, the matted centre with chamfered engraved date aperture and subsidiary seconds, the massive movement with specially cast front- and back-plates united by seven knopped pillars, with anchor escapement (the backplate cut with an anchor shaped aperture to allow for access), and rack strike on a bell mounted vertically on the frontplate, the rack of 12 bells mounted across the width of the movement and played by 25 hammers activated by a 12 inch long pinned brass barrel 2.39m (7ft 10ins) high.

Footnotes

The Dame of Honour, English country dance, transcribed in 1710, known also as Queen Bess's Dame of Honour
The Happy Clown first transcribed 1740
The King Enjoys his Own, known as When the King Enjoys His Own Again, written in 1643 in support of Charles I, it became a Jacobite song in the XVIII century.
Lillibulero, first transcribed in 1690.
Ormonds March, also Duke of Ormond's March, English country dance first transcribed in 1718.
The Shady Bowers first transcribed in 1740.

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