Benjamin Shuckforth, Dis (Diss, Norfolk); An early 18th-century 8-day walnut longcase clock dating to around 1730 . The typical tool hood with cross grain broken arch, the movement chiming the hours on a single bell, the brass (30cm) dial with an applied silver chapter in the secondary dial and calendar aperture, with named boss in the arch. The figured case with long arched top door and cross-grain mouldings throughout on a later plinth.
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.
Watches, several longcase clocks, wall clocks and several lantern clocks are all known by Benjamin Shuckforth, , signed variously as: ''Ben Shuckforth of Diss'', and ''Ben. Shuckforth DISS in Norfolk'', Benj. Shuckforth DISS'', ''Ben. Shuckforth Diss'', ''Benjamin Shuckforth Diss''. The first two forms, that signing with ''of'' a
...nd 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.
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We do not accept returns.Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1044852
Dateline of this antique is 1750
Height is 210cm (82.7inches)Width is 52cm (20.5inches)Depth is 24cm (9.4inches)
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