COllECTORS' iTEMS, wORkS Of ART & ClOCkS

664
william & Thomas farmer, Stockton, an oak
and mahogany longcase clock the eight-day
duration movement striking the hours on a
bell, the thirteen-inch break-arch painted dial
with black Roman hour numerals subsidiary
seconds dial to the centre, shell decoration
to the four corners and a classical scene to
the arch depicting Britannia, with decorative
brass hands, signed to the centre with the
maker’s name ‘Farmers, Stockton’, the oak and
mahogany case with round inlaid decoration
to the door, an inset panel with gadrooned
moulding below the hood, the break-arch hood
with brass capitals to the full pillars and a swanneck
pediment, height 220cm.
£300 - 400
* William & Thomas Farmer are recorded as
working from before 1827 until at least 1851
with Thomas having worked alone from 1770
and William known to have been working circa
1820.
665
T. B., a walnut longcase clock the thirty-hour
duration birdcage movement with flat steel
pillars, striking the hour on a large bell with
an outside countwheel, the eleven-inch square
brass dial with a silvered chapter ring engraved
with black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys halfhour
markings and signed ‘T.B.’ either side of VI
o’clock, with brass female-head spandrels and a
matted centre with engraved round decoration
and a large single steel hand, the walnut case
with a glass lenticle to the trunk door, a short
base, shaped three-quarter columns to the hood
and caddy top, with a label within the trunk
giving some provenance, height 218cm.
£500 – 700
* The interior note suggests this clock as
belonging to T Baldwin of Ashton-under-Lyme
and having been there at least 120 years before
the date of this label, which itself has some age.
It makes the suggestion that T.B is the makers
initials, although it is more likely these are those
of the original owner who, in all probability, was
the Thomas Baldwin mentioned.
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