Longcase Clocks

This is a beautiful longcase clock , we do not normally describe our clocks so passionately but this is an object of beauty . The overall proportions of the clock are perfect , the balance of the silvered dial and polished quarter sound frets , the simple yet elegant hands , the mellowed mahogany case , the tuned bell strike for the hours sounding through silk backed 'fishscale' frets . The movement is deadbeat with mainainting power ,8 day of extremely high quality throughout with very substantial plates . The design is classic regency with the unfussy round dial , hand engraved with the makers names Gravell and Tolkien London and numbered . Tolkien is the great Grandfather of the author J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit , Lord of the rings ) Gravell and Tolkien were the successors to the late Eardley Norton .

Gravell and Tolkien , London .

H.7'6"  W. 1'75"  D.9"

The overall proportions of this clock are perfect , the balance of the silvered dial and polished quarter sound frets , the simple yet elegant hands , the mellowed mahogany case , the tuned bell strike for the hours sounding through silk backed 'fishscale' frets . The movement is with deadbeat escapement and has maintaining power , 8 day duration and of extremely high quality throughout . The design is classic regency with the unfussy round dial , hand engraved with the makers names Gravell and Tolkien London and numbered . Tolkien is the great Grandfather of the author J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit , Lord of the rings ) Gravell and Tolkien were the successors to the late Eardley Norton .

Fully restored and sold with a two year guarantee.

  G.B. Pounds

 

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