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antique giltwood and painted longcase clock c1840

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SA341451

Antique Giltwood And Painted Longcase Clock, C.1840

Price

£3,750 | $4,993 USD | €4,249 EUR
Item Number: SA341451
Date of manufacture: 1800
Current Status: For sale
Seller: Carlton Clocks
This antique has been viewed 18 times in the past month with the most views from United Arab Emirates.

Description

A mid 19th century mahogany longcase clock by J.R. Laing, Glasgow in a highly decorative drumhead case,
painted with a cream ground and gilt raised edges and mouldings.
The moulded dial surround sits upon a pair of flowerhead carved terminals, water gilded on red bole. The hood is mounted on a tapering fluted column on a moulded box base and turned bun feet. Highly unusually, this longcase clock has no traditional door, but an invisible removable panel at the side to access the pendulum and weights.
The circular 12-inch Roman dial has subsidiary date and seconds dials, and substantial blued steel hands.
It is not clear whether the clock was originally painted and gilded thus. More usual was a polished mahogany finish.
196cm high.
In 1840 James Rankin Laing started a retail jewellers shop known as J. R. & W. Laing at 53 & 55 Brunswick Street, Glasgow. By 1860 they became wholesale dealers by 1890 and also sold chronometers. They then became Laing the Jeweller.
In 1897 the business was frequented by James Keir Hardie, an influential socialist politician who purchased a drumhead grandfather clock. The clock is now in the personal ownership of Michael Laing OBE DL, Chairman and CEO of Laing, Edinburgh and it has been on display in the Scottish Parliament since devolution in 2000.
[source: www.clockswatches.co.uk]
The movement is to be overhauled and guaranteed for 3 years.
Internal Ref: BK815A



Declaration

This item is antique. The date of manufacture has been declared as 1800.


Dimensions

Height = 196 cm (77.2")
Width = 60 cm (23.6")
Depth = 33 cm (13.0")


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Carlton Clocks
Chalfont Station Road
Little Chalfont
Bucks
HP7 9PN
United Kingdom
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