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An interesting late 17th century weight driven 30 hour clock with short verge pendulum and 8 inc...

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An interesting late 17th century weight driven 30 hour clock with short verge pendulum and 8 inc...
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An interesting late 17th century weight driven 30 hour clock with short verge pendulum and 8 inch dial The dial signed Richard Savage, Londini fecit The square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels framing the Roman chapter ring with fleur de lyse half-hour markers and inner quarter hour track to a finely matted centre with Arabic alarm setting disc (the numerals accentuated by the addition of red wax) and single pierced steel hand, signed either side of VI Rich Savage Londini fecit, the weight driven movement with top and bottom plates united by gently tapering columns terminating in turned finials, the verge escapement with pendulum terminating in a brass bob with turned decoration set within the frame, countwheel striking the hours via a steel hammer on a large bell mounted above, with decorative terminal to the hammer stop, (alarm work previously positioned on the backplate but now lacking), the dial, 20cms wide Footnotes: Brian Loomes in Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World lists Savage as working in Wenlock Magna from 1692 to 1696. He worked in Shrewsbury from 1698 and he died in 1728. It is quite possible that from 1696 to 1698 Savage made a move to London. The current clock bears several similarities to his other recorded clocks, in particular, the contrate wheel has decorative line turning and the contrate collet is cup-shaped. For a resume of Savage's life and work, see Darken and Hooper, English 30 Hour Clocks, Penita Books, 1997, p95, 387 and Loomes, Lantern Clocks and Their Makers, Mayfield Books, 2008, p287, 376-381. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

An interesting late 17th century weight driven 30 hour clock with short verge pendulum and 8 inch dial The dial signed Richard Savage, Londini fecit The square brass dial with winged cherubs head spandrels framing the Roman chapter ring with fleur de lyse half-hour markers and inner quarter hour track to a finely matted centre with Arabic alarm setting disc (the numerals accentuated by the addition of red wax) and single pierced steel hand, signed either side of VI Rich Savage Londini fecit, the weight driven movement with top and bottom plates united by gently tapering columns terminating in turned finials, the verge escapement with pendulum terminating in a brass bob with turned decoration set within the frame, countwheel striking the hours via a steel hammer on a large bell mounted above, with decorative terminal to the hammer stop, (alarm work previously positioned on the backplate but now lacking), the dial, 20cms wide Footnotes: Brian Loomes in Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World lists Savage as working in Wenlock Magna from 1692 to 1696. He worked in Shrewsbury from 1698 and he died in 1728. It is quite possible that from 1696 to 1698 Savage made a move to London. The current clock bears several similarities to his other recorded clocks, in particular, the contrate wheel has decorative line turning and the contrate collet is cup-shaped. For a resume of Savage's life and work, see Darken and Hooper, English 30 Hour Clocks, Penita Books, 1997, p95, 387 and Loomes, Lantern Clocks and Their Makers, Mayfield Books, 2008, p287, 376-381. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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