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A rare thirty-hour longcase clock movement and dial
A rare thirty-hour longcase clock movement and dial
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A rare thirty-hour longcase clock movement and dial Joseph Windmills, London, circa 1695 The single-handed posted countwheel bell striking movement with column-turned uprights, ball feet and verge escapement regulated by short bob pendulum, the 10 inch square brass dial with matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with stylised sword hilt half hour markers and signed J: Windmills, London to lower edge, with pierced steel hand and winged cherub mask and scroll cast and pierced spandrels to angles, 32cm (12.5ins) high overall. The life and work of Joseph Windmills and his successors is comprehensively documented in Neale, J.A. Joseph and Thomas Windmills Clock and Watch Makers 1671-1737. Joseph joined the Clockmakers' Company as a free Brother in on 29th September 1671 - the same year that Joseph Knibb, Daniel Quare and Thomas Tompion also gained their freedom of the Company. He initially worked from Blow Bladder Street in St. Martins le Grand, London before moving to premises at Swan Court, Mark Lane End, next Tower Street by April 1674 where the business remained. Joseph took his son, Thomas, as an apprentice who, after gaining his freedom in 1696, is thought to have immediately gone into business with his father; by 1700 the firm had become a partnership which lasted until Joseph's death in 1724. As a contemporary of Knibb, Quare and Tompion, Joseph Windmills would have had to compete with some of the finest clockmakers that have ever lived during a period of heightened scientific enlightenment. In this environment Windmills excelled, producing clocks of a quality that equalled many of his more famous peers. A related movement is illustrated in Neale, A. J. Joseph and Thomas Windmills Clock and Watch Makers 1671-1737 on pages 62-3 (figures 2.39 and 2.40) and a very similar dial from a third clock is illustrated on page 64 (figure 2.41).
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A rare thirty-hour longcase clock movement and dial

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