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Clockmaker/By : John Penlington of Ince (Cheshire)

Duration: 8 day

Circa : Circa: 1750

Height : 84 inches

Case :
Oak - honey (colour) with mahogany cross banding to hood and trunk door and base.
Square caddy top hood with fretwork above hood door and side windows, clover shaped.
Reeded pillars to hood.
Long trunk door with square top and original lock.
Plinth to base.
Width at widest point 22" (Hood).

Dial :
Brass dial 12" x 12" with ringed winding holes.
Silvered minute chapter ring (with half hour markers) and seconds dial.
Matching steel hour and minute hands with pointer second hand.
Matted dial centre.
Salt box calendar aperture with silvered date dial.
Eagle and urn spandrels.
Roman numerals.
Makers name engraved below 6.00 o'clock.

Maker : John Penlington was buried on 8 February 1762 by F E Slater, vicar of Ince. It appears that he was the son of Henry Penlington and was baptised 29 April 1701. In 1717 he was apprenticed to Gabriel Smith of Barthomley, probably Cheshire's most famous clockmaker and he worked later at Ince.

In an old Cheshire parish accounts book appears the following:

Tho's Hinde's Accounts for Churchwardenship for 1750 -
Paid Jno. Penlington for repairing ye church clock £0.10s.0d (50 pence)
Paid Jno. Penlington for cleaning ye church clock and other repairs £0.7s.0d (35 pence)

A John Penlington, believed to be the clockmaker, was overseer of the poor in 1756 and his name occurs several times in the Vestry minutes.

An alternative engraved spelling of his name was 'Pennington'

Price : £ 4,750 - SOLD -

Guarantee : 12 months