Joseph Liddell, Oldswinsford, an oak longcase clock, the thi...

Hammer

£110

Joseph Liddell, Oldswinsford, an oak longcase clock, the thirty-hour duration bird-cage movement striking the hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the eleven-and-a-half-inch square brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and decorative half-hour markings, with the matted centre having a subsidiary date aperture and silvered plaque engraved Jos. Liddell, Oldswinsford, with cast-brass cherub-head corner spandrels and blued steel hands, the oak case having an arched trunk door with the hood having a caddy-top, and turned quarter-columns, height 214cm.