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See Brian Loomes article on this maker.

This is a really nice rare example of this unique maker. Only he and his master Thomas Pace  used integral foot-column-finials. Originally a balance verge, early conversion to short pendulum verge. Standard full size lantern. Original (2) independent weight driven trains retained.

Recent service / restoration. Original throughout (chain drive conversion, replaced, back plate, vintage doors). Real good escapement action, and fully operational and runs well.  £4,650.

The movement late 17th century, the dial and case later. The movement with tall rectangular plates united by seven knopped and ringed pillars (all latched except two larger central ones which are pinned), with twin gut fusees, the going train terminating in a knife edge verge escapement held in a heart-shape apron, the striking train with rack striking on a bell, the backplate signed to the centre, L.Bradley, LONDON below a 'Green Man' mask issuing foliate scrolls, all enclosed by a wide stylised wheatear border. Set in the case by two engraved brass L-shaped brackets mounted along the bottom edge, and with no evidence of any other fixture, mounted to period 9.25 inch square dial with a later skeletonised chapter ring. The correct bespoke walnut case probably dating to the first half of the 20th century, with caddy top surmounted by a handle over side glazed apertures to a moulded base 47cms (18.5ins) high.

Serviced, in good running condition. £3700.

BRADLEY, LANGLEY. London. He was born in 1671, the son of Thomas and Martha (née Curtis) Bradley of St Dunstan's Stepney, and was apprenticed in February 1687/8 through the Clockmakers' Company to Joseph Wise and was made free in 1695. He took as apprentices: May 1695 Thomas Norwood (through Richard Knight); August 1700 Joseph Mountford (son of Bartholomew Mountford of Southampton, clerk); February 1708/9 John Paybody (son of John Paybody of St Mary Magdalen Ber-mondsey, hairdresser, deceased); November 1713 John Wood; April 1719 Edward Roberts; 1721 his son Benjamin, freed 1728, and perhaps others after 1720. On 3 September 1696 he was married by a Faculty Office marriage licence at Tottenham to Ann Wise, widow of Thomas Wise, clock-maker, the brother of his former master, and daughter of William Ravenscroft. Langley Bradley and Ann lived in St Gabriel's parish, perhaps taking over Thomas Wise's former premises. In 1697 he signed the Clockmakers' Company oath of allegiance. He and his wife, Ann, had several children baptised at St Gabriel's Fenchurch Street: June 1697 William; September 1698 Ann; August 1700 Susannah; October 1702 Margaret; April 1706 Benjamin. In 1714 the King paid Langley Bradley, clockmaker, £80 in tallies, £103 8s od in money. In 1720, when watch-case maker William Jaques died, Bradley paid off an account he owed him of £75 8s 5d. He worked at the Minute Dial in Fenchurch Street, but was at Mile End in 1748. He was a Clockmakers' Company Assistant from 1720, Master of the Company in 1726.

He is best known for turret clocks, especially that for St Paul's Cathedral, with two figures striking the quarters, built in 1707. For many years there were disputes about its performance and pamphlets were published about the dispute. Other turret clocks known include St Giles, Edinburgh and Cripplegate Church, London, for details of which see Clocks magazine, February and March 1979, also article by Brynn Hodgson Antiquarian Horology, March, June and September 2002. He was also known for longcase, bracket and lantern clocks and watches, signed variously 'L. Bradley Londini', 'L. Bradley, London', 'Lang. Bradley, London' and 'Langley Bradley London'.

Courtesy of Brian Loomes ‘Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700’

A good, posted countwheel bell-striking movement with early anchor escapement  conversion for regulation by seconds pendulum, the dial with central rose decorated Arabic numeral alarm disc enveloped by stylised leafy tulip sprays issuing from a three-petal flowerhead positioned just above six o'clock and with finely engraved signature ‘Richard Beck Neere the French, Church Londini Fecit’ to upper margin, with original iron hand within a replaced, earlier, narrow  first period chapter ring (possibly  by Bowyer c1620) with floating asterisk half hour markers, the standard London Lothbury frame with column turned corner posts beneath armorial foliate pierced frets, vase turned finials and domed bell bearer, the sides with hinged brass doors and the rear with hanging hoop and spurs (originally with balance wheel regulation), complete with pendulum and  weight.

40cm (15.75ins) high, 15cm (6ins) wide, 19.5cm (7.75ins) deep including spurs. 

Beyond the earlier chapter ring and door replacement in its distant past, there is a lot of originality to this clock Including all original steelwork and alarm work behind the dial  (matchstick man foundry marked hour wheel spur)

Cleaned, serviced and running.  £3950.

Richard Beck is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as born circa 1632 and apprenticed to John Selwood in 1646. On Selwood's death in 1651 Beck continued his apprenticeship under Thomas Loomes gaining his freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1653. In 1855 he married Elizabeth Gilbert at St. Benet Fink with whom he had three children. Richard Beck was a Parliamentarian who supported Fromanteel and Loomes rebelling against the Clockmaker's Company in 1656. Sadly illness brought Beck's life to an end at a premature age; he died in May 1659 leaving his wife and three young children.  Richard Beck's working life only lasted six years and coincided with the short-lived English Commonwealth period (1649-1660). Despite his short-lived time at the bench Loomes notes that at least five lantern clocks by him are known; his work therefore provides us with a concise 'snapshot' of lantern clock production during this short period of time. The present clock is perhaps of notable interest in that it utilises classic 'third period' Lothbury frame castings hence is probably one of the earliest clocks to do so, whilst the dial engraving follows 'second period' style with stiffer/stronger hatching to the elements. Indeed the dial engraving can be compared to that on a 'second period' clock by Henry Ireland illustrated in White, George English Lantern Clocks on page 158 (Figure III/69), and the frame conforms to castings featured on page 180 (Figures IV/37 and 38). 

WILLIAM WEBSTER, LONDON. A GEORGE III EBONISED VERGE BRACKET CLOCK with inverted bell top pediment above a glazed moulded door enclosing an 8" round silvered dial with Roman and Arabic numerals surrounding calendar and mock pendulum apertures, regulation aperture at 12 o'clock fronting a signed eight-day five pillar double fusee movement with rise and fall verge escapement striking the hours on a bell.

39cm high not including handle. A fine example from a quality, sought after maker.

Serviced. £3,500.

A fine quality, unsigned mid-late English 17th C brass lantern clock, the silvered finely engraved dial with Roman numerals, the single train thirty hour verge movement striking on a bell, 39cm high.  rare verge escapement (old reinstatement) with inside case back pendulum. Great frame / doors (cast and scraped) with multiple repair entries. Original (?) brass encased single weight / pulley.  Little wear.

Serviced and good running condition. £2900.

A continental weight driven single handed wall clock in the mid 17th century style.

The frame and wheelwork of this clock are original, carefully restored in the 19th century to what it once was.

The tall case with arched dialplate and doors centred by a bell mounted in a double-frame with spiral finial, the painted dial with twin cherubs heads against a starry sky, the Gothic Roman chapter ring with single steel hand over a subsidiary quarter-hour dial, the right hand door painted with an early astronomer looking through a telescope, the left with a scholar holding a Classical column and globe. The weight driven movement with iron wheels and pinions, the verge arbor suspended on silk, the strike with inside countwheel striking on the bell above. 46cms (18ins) high.

£3250. Serviced / fully operational with a superbly running balance wheel escapement.

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