Richd. Blakeborough, Ottley, a walnut longcase clock the eig...

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£300 - £500

Richd. Blakeborough, Ottley, a walnut longcase clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell and having a fourteen-inch break-arch painted dial with black Roman numerals, a subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, rural church scenes to the four corners, a seascape with castle painted within the arch and signed for the maker Richd. Blakeborough, Ottley and numbered 2215, the iron falseplate to the rear cast with the dialmaker's name Finnemore, Birmingham, the walnut case having quartered-columns to the trunk, shaped top to the short door, shaped panel to the base with the hood having a swan-neck pediment and full turned pillars, all standing on bracket feet, height 248cm. Note: Richard Blakeborough is recorded as working in Market Place, Otley, Yorkshire from before 1822 until at least 1837. He may be the same maker recorded at Pateley Bridge. Longcase clocks are known made by him. Reference: Brian Loomes, Yorkshire Clockmakers, Pub. Dalesman Books, 1972.