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A George I repeating table clock by William Webster I, circa…
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Melbourne
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24-Jul-2023
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A George I repeating table clock by William Webster I, circa 1720, double fusee movement with verge escapement and pull repeat on six bells, striking the hour on a single bell, the silvered main dial with matted centre and mock pendulum aperture beneath subsidiary calendar, strike/ silent, and six bells to one bell subsidiary dials within gilt relief spandrels in an ebonised bell-top glazed case of typical form with a brass swing handle to the top and brass mouldings and foliate grilles to all sides, the dial and the richly engraved backplate each signed 'Wm Webster exchange Alley London', 41.5 cm high (with handle raised), 23.5 cm wide, 16.5 cm deep. Provenance: gifted to Abigail Byzant as a wedding present, 1730, thence by descent to Ernest T. Tennant, Aberavon, Wales, 1927 (information from a previously-prepared history of the clock detailing the various stages of its ownership from 1730 to 1927 passed to a. Bowlt upon his purchase of the clock in 1960), L.H. Allen Pratt (information from another note on the history of the clock given to a. Bowlt after his purchase of the clock), Stephenson & Alexander, Chartered Surveyors and Auctioneers, Cardiff, 9 and 10 November, 1960, sold to a. Bowlt. Other notes: a comprehensive overhaul of the clock in 2008 by Phillip Gale, clockmaker in St Austell, Cornwall, included reinstatement of the verge escapement, reversing a previous conversion to a recoil escapement and associated modifications, together with replacement and repair of other parts and cleaning of the movement and dial. (Mr Gale's invoice detailing his work is available for inspection.)
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Horology (Clocks & watches): Clocks - Zother