Jonas Barber, Junior, English tall clock, ca 1770. Senior and Junior made clocks in the Winster Valley of northern England for 100 years.
This is an important English clock now over 200 years old and still in very nice condition. It was made with mahogany, stands 81" tall, slide off bonnet, and a narrow waist. The top glass is held with new putty which does not mean it was replaced, for putty 200 years old would fall out anyway. There are two full columns and two half columns. The center door has a working key lock, with key, and fancy brass escutcheon and matching pull handle. The base has a removable cover. The brass dial is 18" high, 13" wide, with a seconds dial, month opening, and is signed at the bottom, "JBarber Winster". The large hands are a matching pair, second hand may not be original. The rolling moon dial has two movable pointers that pivot from the center bottom and indicate the time of the tides. The moon dial does not have the correct drive. We will include with the clock a book about Jonas Barber with a diagram showing what the correct drive should look like. The movement is 8 day, strikes a large iron bell, is mounted to the original seat board and has nice brass pulleys and a pair of period iron weights. The front plate of the movement is numbered, as are all of Junior's clocks. This one is "Number 859", which dates the clock around 1770.
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