Daniel Ross, Exeter, a mahogany weight-driven wall clock, t...

Hammer

£450

Daniel Ross, Exeter, a mahogany weight-driven wall clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, with the ten-inch round painted dial having black Roman numerals and signed D. Ross, Exeter, with blued-steel spade hands, the mahogany case with canted corners, curved base, cross-banding to the trunk door and an octagonal surround to the hood, height 126cm Biography Daniel Ross is recorded as working as a chronometer and watchmaker at 31, High Street, Exeter, just below St. Stephen's church, from circa 1837 and is still known to be working in 1863. He supplied a turret clock to Old Blundell's, Tiverton in circa 1842 and another for St. Mark's in Dawlish. A watch signed Ross, High Street, Exeter is on display in Exeter Museum. Reference Clive N. Ponsford Time in Exeter Pub. Headwell Vale Books 1978.