Chas. Haines, Swindon, an oak longcase clock, the thirty-ho...

Hammer

£65

Chas. Haines, Swindon, an oak longcase clock, the thirty-hour duration movement striking the hours on a bell with the square painted dial having black Roman numerals, floral corner decoration and signed to the centre Chas. Haines, Swindon, with decorative brass hands, the oak case having a swan-neck pediment with brass centre finial and patrae, the hood with cast-brass capitals to the pillars, all standing on bracket feet, height 206cm inc. finial. Biography Charles Haines, born Antage, Berkshire in 1798, is recorded as working as a clockmaker in Wood Street, Swindon by 1829 and still listed in 1861 as a widower living with his daughter Louise and a servant. Reference John Young Wiltshitre Watch and Clockmakers Pub. Sedghill Publishing 2004, with a longcase clock by Haines illustrated p.82.