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A highly important early Colonial Australian cedar longcase…
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Sydney
Date:
18-May-2009
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A highly important early Colonial Australian cedar longcase clock by James Oatley, Sydney 1820, the dial inscribed 'Oatley Sydney 1820', the hood with a swan neck pediment over a circular casuarina veneered door, flanked by freestanding twisted reeded columns, the trunk with a casuarina and panel within a pine stringing above a long door with a double curve to the top flanked by matching quarter columns on a square base with bracket feet to the front and sides, the 12 inch silvered copper dial with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds and date dials, with an eight day duration movement with a Graham dead beat escapement with maintaining power, double clicks on the time grate wheel which is hidden underneath the bell housing and a rack strike, with original dial, copper pendulum bob, key and weights, restorer's inscribed marking on back plate '5B670-88'. Provenance: James Badgery (1769 - 1827), Exeter, NSW, by descent to his fist Son Henry Badgery (1803 - 1875) by descent to his Son Frank a Badgery (1852 - 1915) by descent to his Son Frank E Badgery (1887 - 1970) by descent to his Son Frank a Badgery (1912 - 1982) by descent to his Son, the present owner Malcolm J Badgery (1955 - present), the Badgery Family, the Badgerys are one of the great 18th century pioneering farming families of New South Walesand although today spread far and wide, the name resonates because of the family ownership of land in and around Badgery's Creek
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Horology (Clocks & watches): Clocks - Longcase