Two watch-papers in The Heal Collection on same mount (Heal,39.244). A number of clocks in America, tracable as parting gifts to Quaker visitors. It is noticeable that the base continues to show increased ornament in the feet, with an added scroll (again the same as this piece).įellow of Merchant Taylors Company, Watch and clock maker. (Exactly the same as this clock) The pediment of the hood reverts to types which are often found decorated with lacquer work, and the brass terminals are of similar character to those of an earlier period. The height is less, being only 8 feet 2 inches. the clock in the picture taken from the book was owned by the renown collector, clock and watchmaker Percy Webster.Īnother clock, by Thomas Wagstaff, in date about 1780, exhibits a less grandiose appearance.
As you can see on the last image the old clock from that book in 1917 has been merged together with this clock and the elements fit perfectly. The last two images are taken from a Book called ‘A chat on old Clocks’ from 1917 where another Thomas Wagstaffe of London clock can be seen dating from the same period. The clock is complete with all three original finials, three graduated brass cased weights and a very substantial brass pendulum which has quite a unique +/- regulation marker at the base. The elegant deep flamed Mahogany case with pagoda top and red silk fret above a long shaped moulded door with canted corners and typical London panel base upon a double plinth Strike ~ silent dial to the arch which fronts a substantial five pillar three train movement with anchor escapement an hourly rack strike on a single bell and playing the quarters on all eight bells. The clock has been fully restored by a very high qualified restorer.ġ2" arched brass dial with Chinese Rococo cast brass spandrels, silvered chapter ring and Roman numerals with five-minute markers, matted centre with seconds dial and date aperture beneath a shaped name plaque bearing Thomas Wagstaffe, London. It is most likely a case of the East workshop simply sticking to 'what they knew' and making movements in the way in which they had always been made and refusing to adopt the growing standardisation of practises alternatively, the movement may have been left over from a batch made in the East workshop some years beforehand and later sold with the 'modern' 12 inch square dial.Fine & Exhibition quality Longcase Clock on Eight Bells by Thomas Wagstaffe of London ~ Circa 1780 The style of the current clock movement is very much set on early period practises, with its tall plates and latched pillars, and this used in conjunction with a fully developed 12 inch dial may seem an unlikely combination.
He died a rich man and when Henry Jones, one of his previous apprentices, was Master of the Company, East gave the Company a gift of £100 to his credit, Jones matched this sum. The London Gazette of January 22nd-26th 1690 records that a Mr East was working at "the Sun outside Temple Bar". During his long working life, he took on eight apprentices: Thomas Wolverstone, Robert Hanslapp, Walter Gibbs, Edward Wagstaff, Henry Jones, John East, Adam Pearce and Richard Bellinger. He quickly adopted the pendulum on its introduction and made some of the finest clocks of the immediate post 1657 era. In 1660 he was appointed Chief Clockmaker to the King. During his time in office as Master, in 1645 and again in 1653, he held meetings at his premises in Fleet Street, at the 'Musical Clock'. Provenance This clock was bought in the 1930's in Cornwall and has been in the same family ever since.Įdward East (1602-1696) was the youngest Assistant to the court of the Clockmakers Company on its formation in 1632.Now contained in a later 18th century oak case with mahogany hood and banding. The 12 inch square brass dial bordered by an engraved wheatear border, with twin cherub and crown spandrels enclosing the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring engraved with sword hilt half-quarter marks, elaborate half hour marks and signed in an arc following the outer line of the low mark between VII and V, the finely matted centre carrying a subsidiary seconds ring and a square date aperture with chamfered edges and decorated with birds and a basket of fruit, the dial feet pinned to the frontplate of the tall (5in x 8in) rectangular plates, the plates united by six knopped and finned pillars latched to the frontplate, small diameter 'scape wheel to the anchor escapement and internal rack strike on a bell, the repeat lever with protruding steel arm pivoted so as to activate the repeat of the last hour struck by pulling from either side.
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