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Antique clocks for sale

An extraordinary eight-day longcase clock made in the 1740s by the well-known clockmaker, Richard Bullock of Ellesmere, Shropshire, numbered on the dial 161, having a previously-unrecorded type of rack repeat striking system of his own invention, triggered by means of a sprung lever at the rear designed for left-handed or right-handed pull repeating. The original ELM case is in a primitive, Welsh-borders style, a scarce survivor, of superb colour and patination and still has the original wooden cord-pulley on the hood side for repeat triggering - very few clocks survive today with such a pulley system and very few elm clocks survive at all. One of the most interesting clocks we have ever had, this clock remains unchanged since it was made, shortly after the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the Battle of Culloden. Pictured after restoration. See article.
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A fine eight-day clock made just after 1790 by Thomas Ivory of Dundee, born 1770, died about 1825, a celebrated clockmaker, draughtsman and engraver, who abandoned his trade just after 1800 to work in publishing, and whose clocks are therefore seldom met with. The clock has one of the earliest types of painted dial, having the unusual type of square box calendar with brass calendar ring, like a brass dial clock. His son, James, became Lord Ivory. Pictured after restoration. SOLD.
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A particularly small (only 6 foot 3 inches) eight-day cottage or farmhouse clock in its original oak case of good patina, made in the 1740s by William Yeadon, who was apprenticed in London in  1738 to William Pridham and was working in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, by 1743 and was there till at least 1767. See article.
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A handsome eight-day clock by Richard Bullock of Ellesmere, Shropshire, numbered 254, made about 1760, and again incorporating his unique and very rare repeating system.  Pictured after restoration.
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