A long established family business since 1957 specializing in Antique clocks, vintage watches, music boxes, and barometers. Buy with confidence with 12 months guarantee, signed for delivery or personal delivery when possible. Worldwide tracked and insured delivery. Please contact us for more details on a specific item, we can Skype/Face-time/Whatsapp and show you the item in more detail by video link. Members of The British Watch and Clockmakers Guild.
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Hunter of Bristol Moon Phase Longcase Grandfather Clock
Fine quality Bristol Georgian lunar moon phase longcase clock by John Hunter. A red walnut case with the original blind 'Bristol' fretwork to the hood. An impressive double pediment with swan neck and central brass finial. Brass capped fluted hood columns. Side glass hood apertures. An identifiable 'Bristol' area case with distinctive features. A raised plinth panel and fluted trunk sides. A well engraved silvered brass dial with date and seconds. Moon phases to the arch and high water in Bristol tide indicators. An 8-day duration mechanism striking the hours on a bell.
John Hunter of Bristol is recorded in A J Moores 'Watchmakers and Clockmakers of Bristol' book as working from 1764 - 1774. A very similar high water clock is illustrated in the book.
From Kembery Antique Clocks Ltd you can expect a genuine antique grandfather longcase clock that is serviced with 12 months guarantee. We personally set up and deliver to the UK, please contact us for a quote. We are members of The British Watchmakers and Clockmakers Guild.
measurements
Height:
234 mm
Width:
49 mm
Depth:
26 mm
Width is at widest point of hood
measurements
declaration
Kembery Antique Clocks Ltd has clarified that the Hunter of Bristol Moon Phase Longcase Grandfather Clock (LA466813) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1770