A MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

A MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK

BY JOSEPH TABRAHAM, WALTHAM ABBEY, MID-18TH CENTURY

the brass eight day four pillar movement with an anchor escapement and striking on a bell, the brass dial with a silvered chapter ring with black Roman hours and Arabic five minutes, the matted centre with a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, beneath an arch with a moonphase inscribed 'at London Bridge when the moon is ... Dayes Olde / high water...minutes / Past...a clock', the arched hood with canted corners above a trunk with an arched door and panel base, with two brass cased weights and a pendulum

213cm high