FINE ANTIQUE CLOCKS.
Established 1968.
Tel.(01732)358986. Fax.(01732)771842.
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FINE ANTIQUE CLOCKS.
Established 1968.
Tel.(01732)358986. Fax.(01732)771842.
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here.
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31527C.L An extremely attractive mahogany cased longcase clock. The case in the style much favoured by Holmes and Mudge and Dutton, has an arched top with strong mouldings down to the door and is surmounted by a small central pedestal with a round brass finial. The sides of the hood are canted but unusually do not have brass infills at the bottom of the fluted corners. The trunk has a full length trunk door with nicely chosen mahogany veneers surrounded by a strong mould. This follows down through and into the base, again with nice mouldings and with strong well chosen veneers to the plinth panel. The clock stands on a double footed plinth. The eight day weight driven movement is of superior quality that you would expect from Emery. It has five well shaped pillars, the centre one is latched. It has an unusual strike/silent mechanism which stops the rack from falling rather than moving the lifting piece which would be more usual. The dial has a plain centre with the signature "Josiah Emery, London" in flowing letters. It then has a silvered chapter ring and a subsidiary dial in the arch for strike/silent. The spandrels are well cast and the clock has typical blued steel hands. Height to base of finial: 7' 3" (221 cms.)
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JOSIAH EMERY
Josiah Emery, an eminent maker, was born in 1725 and died in 1796. He worked from 33 Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London and was born in Geneva but settled in England. Alberto said his work was particularly fine in all essentials without unnecessary show. He made many watches and submitted four timekeepers to the Board of Longitude for trial between 1792 and 1796. He was made an Honorary Freeman of the Clockmakers' Company in 1781, a distinction rarely given, this means that he must have kept his Swiss nationality. Two watches by him are in the Ilbert & Dennison Collections and a bracket clock by him was in the Wetherfield Collection.
Recently his name has come to even greater prominence due to the fact that he made the pocket chronometer that Lord Horatio Nelson had with him aboard Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. That particular watch was sold recently at Sotheby's achieving the remarkable price of £400,000.
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