A GEORGE III OAK CASED 30-HOUR STRIKING LONGCASE CLOCK

The arched hood flanked by three-quarter columns, between a glazed door, the trunk inset with an arched door, above a plain base and plinth, the 11 in. arched brass dial, signed on a convex roundel Tho Harben / in the Clift / Lewes, pierced mask spandrels, silvered chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half-hour markers, with matted centre, blued steel hands, posted frame movement with anchor escapement and countwheel strike on a bell

200 cm high

Thomas Harben, father and son, are recorded as working in Lewes throughout the eighteenth century.

Condition report:

1 pendulum. 1 weight. 1 case key