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1473 A George III oak longcase clock, 13.5cm circular engraved brass dial, Roman chapter, subsidiary minute and date aperture, signed Harlow/Ashburn (sic), thirty-hour movement with countwheel striking on a bell, the hood with moulded outswept cornice and brass capped Doric columns, shaped rectangular top to trunk door, skirted base, bracket feet, 204cm high, c.1780
The clock was made by Samuel Boulton Harlow (17511815), eldest son of Ashbourne clockmaker Joseph, although he was apprenticed to John Litton of Ashbourne 1767-1774, after which time he worked for a while at Birmingham before returning to Ashbourne where he sold clockmaking materials, made clocks to a high standard, as well as watches, and was the inventor in 1794 of a key to save breakages of watch springs (a device often attributed to Breguet). This relatively prolific family continued as clockmakers at Ashbourne for a further two generations. £300 - £400
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1474 A George III oak longcase clock, 29.5cm square painted dial inscribed Jno. Chapman, Loughboro (sic), Roman and subsidiary Arabic numerals, brightly painted with a bird, sprigs to spandrels, date aperture, 30-hour movement striking on a bell, flat-topped hood with dentil cornice, brass-capped Doric pillars, shaped rectangular door to waist inlaid with an oval patera, mahogany crossbanded and outlined throughout with barberpole stringing, skirted base, 192.5cm high, c.1815
John Chapman was a notable Loughborough character. Son of a farmer at Holywell Hall, he was born in 1754 and apprenticed to Joseph Donisthorpe of Loughborough 1767-1774, when he took over his master’s business when Donisthorpe conveniently died that year. He was a prominent Baptist and married twice, producing three sons by his second wife Sarah (nee Parkinson of Quorn). He was in 1795 a co-founder of the Leicestershire Society of Clockmakers and later made lace making machines as well. Bankrupted in 1834, he died in 1840. His son john was notable as the improver of the Hansom cab, greatly refining J A Hansom’s design. £150 - £200
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