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Rare Langley Bradley of London bracket clock, circa 1710,…
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Sydney
Date:
11-Oct-2015
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Rare Langley Bradley of London bracket clock, circa 1710, ebonized pagoda topped case, with brass carry handle, three train fusee movement with six pillars, with seven bells, quarter chiming, hour strike, visible false pendulum, engraved Bradley London and to the base NULLO INHIBENTE, glazed sides, with key, has pendulum, working order, approx 50 cm high, 27 cm wide, 17 cm deep. Langley Bradley is recorded in Loomes, Brian the early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain as born circa 1663, apprenticed in February 1688 to Joseph Wise and freed 1694. He worked at the Minute dial in Fenchurch Street and was appointed Assistant of the Clockmaker's Company in 1720 and served as master in 1726. By 1748 he had moved to Mile end. Langley Bradley is perhaps best known as a turret clock maker who was commissioned by Sir Christopher Wren to supply the clock for St. Paul's Cathedral in 1707.
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Horology (Clocks & watches): Clocks - Bracket