Fletcher, Barnsley, an oak longcase clock, the thirty-hour d...

Hammer

£200

Fletcher, Barnsley, an oak longcase clock, the thirty-hour duration movement striking the hours on a bell, with the thirteen-inch round painted dial having black Roman numerals, date aperture and signed Fletcher, Barnsley, with brass hands, the oak case having quartered columns, the hood with a swan-neck pediment and brass capitals to the pillars, the base with raised mouldings and standing on bracket feet, height 208cm. Biography There are three members of the well-known Fletcher family working in Barnsley, Yorkshire at this period with the maker of this clock quite probably one of the two clockmaking sons of Tobias Fletcher, either Charles born circa 1780 or Tobias II born 1782. Reference Brian Loomes Yorkshire Clockmakers Pub. Daleman Books 1972