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1352 A 19th century Japanned long case clock, arched painted dial, Roman chapter, Arabic minutes, subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, pierced hands, inscribed Chas. Stokes/Bewdley, 8 day movement striking on a gong, the arch with a bucolic scene of shepherd, and shepherdess with sheep in landscape, floral spandrels, the case with swan neck pediment, fluted columns, rectangular door, flanked by fluted quarter columns, skirted base, 223.5cm high Charles Stokes of Bewdley was a member of a long-established West Midlands dynasty of clock and watchmakers going back to William, of Stourbridge (died 1725). He was the grandson of John, also of Bewdley and Bridgenorth (1706-1789) and worked c. 1790-1820. £300 - £500
1353
1353 A George II/early George III longcase clock, 28.5cm square brass dial inscribed W.M. Porthouse, Penrith, Roman and Arabic numerals, leafy scroll cast spandrels, date aperture, 30hour movement striking on a bell, the associated case later folk carved, 193cm high
William Porthouse was born at Barnard Castle and baptised there in November 1705 son of James Porthouse (or Portas, as the parish clerk phonetically spelt it) and moved with his family to Penrith in 1715, being apprenticed, it is thought, to Aaron Cheesebrough there 1720-1725, marrying Mary Nicholason at Penrith in the latter year and having six children, including three clockmaker sons, John (1728-1787), William (b. 1736) who moved back to Barnard Castle after his apprenticeship in 1757, and George (1743-1817), who eventually succeeded his father. William somehow came into the orbit of Benjamin Franklin, making one of his three wheel clocks in the 1770s. £100 - £150
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1354 A George II mahogany longcase clock, 29cm arched brass dial inscribed Ogden, Darlington, silvered chapter ring inscribed with Roman and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, twin-winding holes, 8-day movement striking on a bell, the well-figured case with arched cresting, bras-mounted stop-fluted pillars and quarter-columns, arched rectangular door to waist, shaped plinth base, 220cm high, c.1745 John Ogden was a member of a very prolific and distinguished family of clockmakers, originally from Halifax. He signed clocks from both Sunderland and Darlington and died in 1753. £800 - £1200
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