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20 - A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY OAK HOOK AND SPIKE JOINED LONGCASE CLOCK CASE, WITHOUT MOVEMENT, ENGLISH, CI...

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A RARE WILLIAM AND MARY OAK HOOK AND SPIKE JOINED LONGCASE CLOCK CASE, WITHOUT MOVEMENT, ENGLISH, CIRCA 1685-1690. The lifting high gabled hood with bold cornice and bolection mouldings, glazed to three sides without a door. Above a joined and panelled case with twin panelled and moulded door descending almost full length to a small square panelled plinth, with similar full height framed and panelled ends having bolection mouldings and matching lower panels, retaining the original elm back board and iron hook/spike. All made from high quality quartered oak throughout, with excellent natural colour and surface patination., 203cm high 36.5cm wide 35.5cm deep Note - Certain longcase clocks of the later 17th century were made to house either a Hook and Spike movement or a Lantern Clock, they did not have an opening door in the hood, it had to be lifted vertically to access the movement, as in this clock. The cases design can be traced to the earliest of Longcase clocks by Ahasuerus Fromanteel of Norwich and London, after 1656. By the 18th century the majority of clock cases were not of mortice and tenon joined, pegged construction. Provenance - Albert Gautier Collection, Newton Old Hall, Tibshelf, Derbyshire. Purchased by Herbert and Norma Beedham, early to mid 1970s. Albert Gautier was an early furniture and clock collector from the 1960s into the 1970s.

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+ Calendar 2025-03-19 11:00:00 2025-03-19 23:59:59 Europe/London The Beedham Collection Part II The Beedham family has been collecting early oak furniture and related works of art for over 70 years, however, the origins of this collection goes even further back. Historically, the Beedham family ran pubs in the South Yorkshire area for over 250 years and in former times it was custom and practice that an incoming pub landlord would take over the whole of the items in the establishment from the previous landlord. It was in this way the Beedham Collection really started. Herbert Beedham, my father, was the first of the family to leave the public house trade and he started up his own Antique business, and brought to the business a wealth of furniture and objects which had been passed down by the family over many years. Herbert had a great passion for early items and would regularly visit the antique and ‘junk’ shops of Sheffield, coming back, much to my mother’s dismay, with yet more antiques and collectables. It was during this time he struck up a friendship with the curator of the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield who introduced Herbert to the, at that time, unknown L S Lowry, from whom he subsequently tried desperately and sadly unsuccessfully to buy a painting. Herbert’s greatest passion was to collect Tudor and Elizabethan Manor House furniture and objects. A Daily Telegraph reporter once visited his shop and wrote an article in the paper emphasising the love that he showed for his items, running his hands over the polished surfaces. Beedham Antiques was established in 1974 and moved to Holme Hall in Bakewell Derbyshire a large Grade I listed 15th/16th Manor House (pictured) where many of the privately owned pieces pieces for sale in this collection were displayed in their authentic surroundings. Paul Beedham, Herbert's son, took over the business in 2012 and has proudly celebrated its 50th year anniversary and is carrying on its tradition of supplying the finest Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture to important Manor Houses and collectors. Since our family were great private collectors, many of the pieces on display in the saleroom have not been seen on the market for a number of decades. Beedham Family Bishop & Miller Auctioneers

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