A GEORGE I EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK MOVEMENT AND DIALJOHN DR...

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£150 - £180

A GEORGE I EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK MOVEMENT AND DIALJOHN DRAPER, LONDON, CIRCA 1720The five finned pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement for regulation by a seconds pendulum, the 11.75 inch brass break-arch dial with subsidiary seconds dial and foliate scroll border engraved calendar aperture to the Ho-Ho bird decorated matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and fleur-de-lys half hour markers, with scroll pierced steel hands and herringbone border engraved surround to the plate including the arch, centred with a silvered boss engraved JOHN, DRAPER, LONDON within leafy surround over Silent/Strike selection switch, (lacking spandrels, pendulum and weights).41cm (16.375ins) high excluding later extension piece to the arch, 30cm (11.75ins) wide, 13cm (5ins) deep overall.John Draper is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed in 1695, gaining his freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1703 and working in London until 1726.