Longcase clock by John Trubshaw, London, c. 1700–1710

Dealer description — Howard Walwyn

A good Queen Anne period ebonised 8-day hour-striking longcase clock by this excellent maker. The 12-inch square dial has an applied silvered brass Roman chapter ring with cherub and crown corner spandrels. The dial centre is finely matted with an inset date aperture above VI and a subsidiary seconds dial below XII. The maker’s signature John Trubshaw , London is engraved along the bottom edge of the dial plate. The blued-steel hands appear to be original and are finely wrought and pierced. The high quality 8-day movement has its original anchor escapement and strikes the hours on a single bell via an inside locking plate. The pine trunk and the hood which has attached columns to the front and quarter columns to the rear and fine fretwork below the front cornice are ebonised. There are two rectangular glazed hood windows to afford a view of the movement. The trunk door is set with a brass rimmed glass lenticle to show the moving/swinging pendulum. Height: 86 in (218.5 cm) Width: 19 in (48.25 cm) Depth : 10 ¼ in (26 cm) *John Trubshaw was an eminent clockmaker who was born in 1665 in Staffordshire and was apprenticed to Robert Halstead in London from 1679 until 1686 when he was made free of the Clockmakers’ Company. He himself took on various apprentices from 1688 in his own workshop and he became a Clockmakers’ Company Assistant from 1710. He was elected as Warden of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1714 but he sadly died before he could take up office in November of that year. He was buried at St Bride’s, Fleet Street on 16h October 1714. References: Brian Loomes, Clockmakers of the World: 21 st Century Edition , p.782 Brian Loomes, Clockmakers of Britain 1286 – 1700 , p.494 HW6237