A mahogany longcase clock of lovely colour with an eight-day duration movement that strikes the hours on a bell, the 11in. painted arched dial has black Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and date dials, blued steel decorative hands and is signed within the arch with the maker’s name ‘Wm. Flint, Ashford’, the falseplate to the dial is embossed with the dialmaker’s name ‘Walker & Hughes, B/ham’.
The mahogany case has an arched trunk door, a plain base with shaped plinth & Kentish style cresting to the hood which has the addition of plain hood pillars with brass capitals, the whole surmounted by three ball & spire finials.
* There were two William Flints of Ashford, Kent; father & son. William Snr was born in 1757 and died in 1813 and is recorded as having married Elizabeth Burch at St Mary's Church, Ashford on the 8th of April, 1780, who was more than likely a member of the Burch family of Kent watchmaker's. Their son, William Jnr, was born in 1787 and died in 1871 and followed on in his father's footsteps making not only eight-day longcase clocks but many thirty-hour examples and watches.
* George Walker & Thomas Hughes were working in Birmingham from 1812 until 1834, when the former died, becoming the most important and prolific of the Birmingham dialmaker's over the next two decades. One characteristic is the beautiful way in which the clockmaker's name is written on the dial as these were done at the factory rather than upon arrival at the clockmaker's workshop where they were often then signed by a local man and could be of lesser quality.
Height: 7 ft 1 inch (inc. centre finial)
Price: £5,250.00