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Buckingham Interiors has dated this Walnut Longcase Clock to the 1750s.
He probably started work at Diss in his own right about 1710, the first clockmaker to work in Diss, a small market town with a population of about 2,000 in 1800 and so considerably fewer when Benjamin began work there.
Shuckforth DISS in Norfolk', Benj. Shuckforth DISS', 'Ben. Shuckforth Diss', 'Benjamin Shuckforth Diss'. The first two forms, that signing with 'of' and that mentioning the county, both tend to imply an early period in his work, when he was not yet well known and when he felt Diss too might not be recognised readily. His clocks are of good quality and his longcase examples included a good many of eight-day duration rather than just the thirty-hour type we are often inclined to associate with clockmakers in country towns, though he made those as well. It would not surprise me if one day we found he had been apprenticed in London.
Benjamin is recorded as working from 1730-1760 at Market Place, Diss, Norfolk, he died in 1760.
Buckingham Interiors has dated this Walnut Longcase Clock to the 1750s.
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George II Walnut Longcase Clock by Benjamin Shuckforth C 1730 (Long Case)
