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Clockmaker/By : Thomas Knight of Birmingham

Duration: 8 day

Circa : Circa: 1790

Height : 78.25 inches (inc finials)

Case :
Exceptional quality solid mahogany case work and colour with dentil moulding.
Typical Midlands style with features found in this area such as domed inlay to top.
of trunk long door with mahogany cross banding.
Brass capped reeded pillars to hood door and trunk.
Swan neck with original paterea and finials.
Applied base panel.
Ogee feet (original).
Width at widest point 21.75" (Hood).

Dial :
Rolling moon 17" x 12" arch dial featuring a superb man-o-war painting flying the flag of a Rear Admiral of the Red on the sea scape.
The dial false is stamped Ashwin & Co, dialmakers who worked in Paradise Street, Birmingham 1777-91.
Dial painted 'Knight, Birmingham'
Matching, hour, minute and seconds hands.
Aperture calendar mouth.
Arabic numerals. It is believed that this clock may have originally had Roman numerals.
which were re-painted in the early 1800's to cater for the new fashion of Arabic numerals.

Maker :
Thomas Knight's known working dates were 1785 - 1791 and he worked in Bull Street, Birmingham:
          77 Bull St 1785-86
          31 Bull St 1787-91

This clock was believed to have once belonged to the Charrington brewing family at Maple Hayes House, Lichfield, a former manor house. The house was owned by a Colonel Negus in 1947 when the clock was purchased in auction. Maple hayes House later became a boarding school for King Edward V1 Grammar School and then a school for dyslexic children.

Price : £ 7,750

Guarantee : 12 months