£300 - £500
A QUEEN ANNE EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK MOVEMENT WITH TEN-INCH DIAL SAMUEL WORLEY, STARTON, CIRCA 1710The five pillar inside countwheel bell striking movement with anchor escapement for regulation by a seconds pendulum, the 10 inch square brass dial with ringed winding holes to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and signed Simon, Worley, Starton, Fecit to lower margin, with scroll pierced steel hands and unusual winged cherub, Lambrequin and foliate scroll cast spandrels to angles, (no seatboard pendulum, weights or pulleys).28cm (11ins) high including the bell, 15cm (6ins) deep. Samuel Worley is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as working in Starton (believed to be Staverton, Wiltshire), circa 1700-1720.
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