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Peter Closon C.1630
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A rare 1<sup>st</sup> period lantern clock by Peter Closon C.1630</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The posted frame has a hook and spikes, alarm on the iron backplate, heraldic frets, side door and bell. The separately wound two train movement has a reconverted verge balance wheel escapement and strikes the hours via a countwheel.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The 1" wide chapter ring with star ½ hour markers is fixed to the dial plate which is delicately engraved with flowers and foliage. There is a central alarm disc and a full signature <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Peter Closon Neare Hoborn Bridge Fecit”</em>. The single hand is a replacement.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">          </span>Peter Closon subscribed to the incorporation of the clockmakers company in 1630. One of the best known early clockmakers, he worked near Holborn bridge. Further information and several examples of his work can be found in “English Lantern Clocks” by George White.</span></p>
 
A very rare 17th century lantern clock stand.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A very rare 17<sup>th</sup> century lantern clock stand.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">     </span>The oak case of heavy construction comprises a full length back board, a fixed seatboard with convex moulds beneath, full length sides and front terminating with a small moulded plinth. In the trunk is a narrow door with turnbuckle fastener and iron butterfly hinges. There are full length moulds to the door and front.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: justify;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 18pt; text-align: justify;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></em></p> </span></span></p>
 
anonymous (Gilkes).
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ref No 482</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A rare and early small anonymous (Gilkes) 30hr hook and spike clock C.1715</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The posted iron framed movement has a hook and spikes; it has anchor escapement and strikes the hours on a top mounted bell through an outside countwheel.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The 7 ¾ square brass dial has an applied chapter ring, good hand, typical zigzag centre and most unusual outer engraving including 3 circles for each corner spandrel and whole dial border and outside wavy lines. The dial plate itself is very thin with some loss to the corners.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><strong></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>This clock is probably by Thomas Gilkes of Sibford Gower (1665-1743). For a full history of the Gilkes and other Oxfordshire Quaker families see Beeson – clock making in Oxfordshire.</span></span></p> <p> </p>
 
Henry Chapele, Bridgewater.
<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>An excellent late 17<sup>th</sup> century lantern clock by Henry Chapele, Bridgewater.</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span> </span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span>       </span>The posted frame case has side doors, frets, bell strap and bell, 5 finials and a hook and 2 spikes. It has good original wheel and metal work and a nicely decorated hammer spring. The escapement is original anchor and it strikes the hours on a bell via a countwheel. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span>       </span>The 6 ½" chapter ring has early ½ hour markers, signature and original hand. The dial plate is beautifully engraved with tulips and foliage in the centre and has very distinctive corners. <em>Note: A very similar, but slightly later clock can be seen in “English Lantern Clocks” by George White Pg 302.</em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span>          </span>Henry Chapele was working in Bridgewater in the late 17<sup>th</sup> century and early 18<sup>th</sup> century.</p> <p> </p>
 
William Tomlinson, London
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A rare 3-train ¼ striking lantern clock by William Tomlinson, London C.1730.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The posted frame case has side doors, frets, bell strap and bell, 5 finials and a hook and 2 spikes. It has good original wheel and metal work and verge escapement. The ¼ striking is on the centre train via a countwheel on a single small bell and the hour striking is on the rear train via a countwheel on the large bell.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The 8" dial has corner spandrels, a chapter ring with diamond ½ hour markers, a matted centre and a signature boss in the arch.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"> </p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-family: ">William Tomlinson was born in 1673 near Preston (Lancs). In 1699 when he married he was working at the dial and three crowns, London. He married again in 1721 and his address then was Gracechurch St. He was a maker of fine clocks.</span></p>
 
Edward Jenkins, Bristol C1730
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ref No 480</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">An attractive lantern clock signed Edward Jenkins, Bristol C1730 and later</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The posted frame case has side doors, frets, bell strap, bell and 5 finials. It has anchor escapement with long pendulum and strikes the hours via a countwheel. The 6" silvered chapter ring encloses a centre with foliage engraving. This clock sits on a purpose made pine bracket.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: "><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">          </span>Edward Jenkins was recorded working in Bristol in 1724.</span></p>
 
William Powley of Asby (Westmoreland).
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ref No 475</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">An exceptionally rare provincial lantern clock <span style="color: #ff0000;">with a 1¼ second pendulum</span> by William Powley of Asby (Westmoreland) late 17<sup>th</sup> century.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The posted frame movement is constructed mainly of iron; it has iron plates, side doors, bell strap and backplate. Most of the wheel and metal work is original and there is a very ornate hammer spring. The escapement is anchor and it strikes the hours on a bell via an outside countwheel.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">       </span>The 6" chapter ring has early ½ hour markers and original hand. This clock has a most beautifully engraved dial plate each corner is engraved with a flower and foliage and the centre with tulips rising up from the base signed beneath 12 “WP”. The engraving on this clock is almost identical to a James Ogden lantern clock from the 1680`s illustrated in “Lantern Clocks” by Loomes Pg 322-3.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt;"> </p> <p><span style="font-family: "><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">          </span>The Powley`s of Asby were a metal working family working there from the 1660`s. There was a William born in 1681, the son of John who married there in 1679. William could have been the maker of this clock or more probably an earlier unrecorded William. Only one other clock similar to this is known to us.</span></p>
 
William Raynes In Yorke.C.1680
<p>A rare early lantern clock by William Raynes In Yorke.C.1680 The posted frame case has iron hook and spikes, dolphin frets, a large bell and side doors with cut outs for the central pendulum. A very attractive dial has an applied 6 inch silvered chapter ring with the centre beautifully engraved with flowers and foliage and a central Tudor rose, it retains its original hand and is signed above V1. The 30 hour movement has divided trains with a central pendulum and verge escapement. Hour striking is via a rear mounted countwheel, it has good wheel and metalwork and of particular note is the decorated hammer spring. Note: A 30 hr longcase by Raynes is presently being exhibited at the "Time and Place" exhibition at the History of Science Museum in Oxford. William Raynes a well known but rarely found maker. He worked in York from around 1672 until his death from a riding accident in 1695.</p>
 
Gamard, Paris C. 1740
<p>A good small French timepiece alarm clock by Gamard, Paris C. 1740 The posted frame holds the silk suspended verge movement and verge alarm. There are two side doors with butterfly openers, side and front frets and a top mounted bell with a finial. The 5" chapter ring has distinctive 1/2 hour markers; there is a fully signed foliage engraved centre with central alarm disc and a fine hand. Antoine Simon Gamard was working in Paris from 1740-9. He is listed as being clockmaker to King Louis XV, a tribute afforded only to the finest clockmakers.</p>
 
John Mercer, Hythe (Kent) C.1730.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A very good lantern clock by John Mercer, Hythe (Kent) C.1730.</span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The posted frame case has side doors, frets, bell strap and bell, 5 finials and a hook and 2 spikes. It has good original wheel and metal work, anchor escapement with long pendulum and strikes the hours via a countwheel. The 6 1/2 inch chapter ring with unusual 1/2 hour markers encloses a centre with foliage engraving and a bold signature.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12.6pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John Mercer originated from Henfield or Ninfield (Sussex) and was apprenticed in 1713 to Thomas Barrett of Lewes then he worked in Hythe (Kent) from pre. 1737 - 79 (possibly from completing his apprenticeship C.1720.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></p>
 
Boothsbank Farm, Leigh Road, Worsley, Manchester M28 1LL. England