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Good Quality Regency ‘Egyptian Style’ Mahogany Longcase Clock by John Grant (1 of 11)
Wick Antiques Ltd
Flag of United KingdomHampshire, UK
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Good Quality Regency ‘Egyptian Style’ Mahogany Longcase Clock by John Grant

REF: LA476396
£12,500
€14,602
$15,723
Certified DealerApproved item413 sales by dealer
Certified DealerApproved item413 sales by dealer
Description
A good quality Regency ‘Egyptian style’ mahogany longcase clock by John Grant, the case surmounted by Egyptian columns with heads and feet of cast gilt brass, the lancet style hood with an open brass fret above the dial and on the sides, backed with silk, and flanked by twin ebonised columns, the circular enamelled dial with roman numerals in black on a white ground and inscribed ‘John Grant, Fleet Street,’ with levers for chime/silent and for Westminster chime/chime on eight bells, the hour struck on a large coiled gong, decorated throughout with boxwood stringing. With a paper label stating ‘Harrods Limited Furniture Depository, Barnes, S.W.13. Sir E J Venner, D/No. 485 22/4/55’. English, circa 1800. Provenance: Sir E.J. Venner Footnote: John Grant, 75 Fleet Street, London, was apprenticed to his uncle Alexander Cumming. He was appointed honorary freeman of the Clockmaker’s Company in 1781 and was Warden by the time he died in 1810. There are numerous examples of his work in the Guildhall Museum, London. His son, also John Grant, continued the business until 1852, holding the position of Master five times between 1833-67. Sir John Franklyn Venner (1902-55) was officially listed, during the war, as a group captain in the Auxiliary Air Force. |He had, in fact, been the financial director of the Special Operations Executive from 1940. It is noted by Christopher J Murphy in Neville Wylie (ed.) The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War-Special Operations Executive 1940-1946, p.196, that by 1942 he was in direct control of the total expenditure of the Soe and by Michael Richard Daniell Foot, in Soe: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940-1946, p.360, that “Venner left a name with those who knew him of wizardry bordering on genius: as witness the fact that when he cast up his final accounts, he showed a profit of £23m”. He was knighted in additional recognition of his huge contribution to the war effort.
measurements
Height:
88.5 in
Width:
21 in
Depth:
10.25 in
declaration
Wick Antiques Ltd has clarified that the Good Quality Regency ‘Egyptian Style’ Mahogany Longcase Clock by John Grant (LA476396) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being Regency
location
This Good Quality Regency ‘Egyptian Style’ Mahogany Longcase Clock by John Grant is located in Hampshire, United Kingdom

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