This is a quite petite 8-day Georgian clock from around 1740, with slightly later alterations.
It has an 11” brass dial, housed in a medium oak case.
The brass face has floral etchings and a working date aperture. As was usual with W Barnard, the clock number is engraved beneath his name.
The movement is clean and in good working order. It keeps good time. It chimes on the hour to a bell.
The hood has a pagoda top with crenellated base, and integrated wooden pillars.
The slim trunk is solid, and has a nice patina. The arch-topped door is full length and flush-fitting - as was typical of early 18C clock cabinets. It has a working lock and key, and brass H-hinges.
H = 79.5” (approx) W = 16.5” D = 8.75”
William Barnard was born in Newark about 1710 (one report says 1707) and was apprenticed for seven years, probably at the usual age of fourteen to clockmaker Daniel Tantum, who at that time (1724) worked in Nottingham, a dozen or so miles to the west. If his birth was in 1707, that would make him seventeen years old when apprenticed, and that was unusually old for apprenticeship in those days.So William Barnard may have worked at Newark as early as 1733, or may have moved there in 1740, which is traditionally said to have been his starting date. The oldest proven date for his working there which I am aware of is the year 1744. We know this from a recently-published book by Dennis Moore, 'British Clockmakers & Watchmakers Apprentice Records 1710-1810', All his clocks are said to have been numbered. His clock number is usually positioned on the front of the dial, sometimes beside his signature, but on those clocks with seconds dials (usually only eight-day ones) the number is often placed inside the seconds ring.
This is a quite petite 8-day Georgian clock from around 1740, with slightly later alterations.
It has an 11” brass dial, housed in a medium oak case.
The brass face has floral etchings and a working date aperture. As was usual with W Barnard, the clock number is engraved beneath his name.
The movement is clean and in good working order. It keeps good time. It chimes on the hour to a bell.
The hood has a pagoda top with crenellated base, and integrated wooden pillars.
The slim trunk is solid, and has a nice patina. The arch-topped door is full length and flush-fitting - as was typical of early 18C clock cabinets. It has a working lock and key, and brass H-hinges.
H = 79.5” (approx) W = 16.5” D = 8.75”
William Barnard was born in Newark about 1710 (one report says 1707) and was apprenticed for seven years, probably at the usual age of fourteen to clockmaker Daniel Tantum, who at that time (1724) worked in Nottingham, a dozen or so miles to the west. If his birth was in 1707, that would make him seventeen years old when apprenticed, and that was unusually old for apprenticeship in those days.So William Barnard may have worked at Newark as early as 1733, or may have moved there in 1740, which is traditionally said to have been his starting date. The oldest proven date for his working there which I am aware of is the year 1744. We know this from a recently-published book by Dennis Moore, 'British Clockmakers & Watchmakers Apprentice Records 1710-1810', All his clocks are said to have been numbered. His clock number is usually positioned on the front of the dial, sometimes beside his signature, but on those clocks with seconds dials (usually only eight-day ones) the number is often placed inside the seconds ring.