2150 A George III oak longcase clock, 33cm rounded painted dial, inscribed T Bell, 30 hour movement, striking on a bell, the hood with swan neck pediment, brass paterae, turned columns, shaped trunk door, inlaid plinth, 217cm high Thomas Bell is a new addition to the roll of Derbyshire clockmakers and may be related to the extensive Bell family of makers at Uttoxeter and Ashbourne. £300 - £400 2151 A George III oak longcase clock, 33cm white dial, dummy winding holes, Roman chapter, signed Jas Ashton/Tideswell, subsidiar y seconds dial, 30 hour movement striking on a bell, the hood with curly pediment, fluted brass capped columns, shaped door with Baroque brass escutcheon, flanked by fluted quarter columns, plinth base, 207cm high James Ashton was a third generation member of the extensive clockmaking dynasty which flourished on both sides of the Derbyshire/Cheshire border, being grandson of Samuel Ashton of Tideswell and son of Samuel’s younger son, Aaron, also of Tideswell. The elder branch of the family flourished at Ashbourne and Macclesfield, James himself was born c. 1769, was apprenticed to his father 1783-1790 and married Sarah Shepley (a relative of John Shepley of Derby, clockmaker) at Glossop in September 1791, working into the second decade of the 19th century. £400 - £600 2152 A George III oak longcase clock, 28cm square painted dial signed G Gould/South Molton, Roman and subsidiary Arabic numerals, 30-hour movement striking on a bell, the hood with concave moulded cornice above a carved frieze, rectangular door to waist, plinth base, 198cm high, c.1780
George Gould was born 1741, apprenticed to Christopher Day of South Molton 1755-1762 and was working until 1799. He was made a freeman of the town in 1798 and died in August 1809. He was a clockmaker of unusual ambition for a provincial maker, having made an astronomical clock, now in a public collection. £200 - £300
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