Ellicott, Royal Exchange A mahogany bracket clock, the double fusee, eight-day duration movement

Ellicott, Royal Exchange A mahogany bracket clock, the double fusee, eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the eight-inch round, convex dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel hands and signed by the maker ‘Ellicott, Royal Exchange’, with a cast brass bezel, the mahogany dome topped case having decorative boxwood inlay to the front, height: 41cm. * The Ellicott family were well known clockmakers working at the Royal Exchange, having started with the ingenious maker John Ellicott who died in 1733. A succession of family members, including John jnr, one of the countries most eminent makers, continued the business with, at the date this clock was made, Edward jnr. who became a Freeman of the Clockmakers Company in 1795 before becoming Master, and died in 1835.