£5,000 - £8,000
Good walnut and marquetry eight day longcase clock with a five pillar movement, the 10" square brass dial signed Edmund Appley, Charing Cross on the dial plate beneath six o'clock, the silvered chapter ring enclosing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds dial and apertures for days of the week and day of the month, the case with unusual bombe base, long beaded ebonised moulded door fitted with a lenticle and the hood surmounted by a stepped cornice, 87" high (pendulum and two brass cased weights)
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** Edmund Appley (1656-1688) was apprenticed to Jeffrey Bayley in 1670. He was Free of the Clock Makers' Company in 1678, establishing himself in Charing Cross, London. He died whilst on a business trip to Edinburgh and was buried there 11 August 1688
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