Featured Calling Afantiques! Long case clock ID, please.

I have been sent this photo asking for any info. I can get other photos if needed as I suspect a closer view of the clock face and one of the works might help!

Any info I can pass on would be great. Thanks!

 

u no the drill.....many more pics required...

 

It's sort of a 2-part question: one is the clock and the other is the case.

 

Yes. I hope to have more photos soon.

 

More photos...

 

I can't make out all the words

Think I see "Royal Exchange" then London.

 

Yeah, that’s what I saw. Hoping to find out the rest...

 

I think it’s Fra (Francis) Perigal.

 

Thanks, Anund! Saw this via Google, so makes it a fairly old clock!
https://research.britishmuseum.org/...ection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=81348

 

And this from a book on the Perigal watches at the Met museum.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Dd...=onepage&q=francis perigal watchmaker&f=false

 

And Anund is on the money. The owner wrote: "FRAs Perigal" (The small s is up at the top of the A as to where I have
it, on the lower part).

 

@afantiques
Can we narrow the date down a bit? Late 18th c?

 

@kentworld
Af hasn't been seen since April 11.
Don't know if anyone has contact info or not for him.

 

Thanks!

 

I do hope AF is OK and that he hasn’t caught the virus. Fairly stringent lock-down in Britain right now, too.

I joined a clock group in Facebook and received this reply which I think pretty much gives the information I need.

“Your clock is 1790 give or take five years either way. It is a top quality clock with maintaining power (it keeps the power on when the clock is wound). The dial would originally have been silvered all over. The hands look to be later replacements. There are several Francis Perigals listed. Yours is probably Francis the third apprenticed in 1778 and died 1843. Congratulations you have a very fine clock. Treasure it. As to value; clocks are well down at present but certainly well into four figures.”

I did wonder about the brass dial. I bet several someones lovingly polished it over and over!

 

you could look in the ebay community, he's sometimes there.

 

Gad! I haven’t been there for years!

 

Neither have I but I got a message through ebay from kentworld.

I have had some computer problems, and don't like using this one too much, so I went silent for a while.

Normal service should be resumed as soon as I get a new laptop.

The clock seems to have been pretty well described already.

No disease at AF manor, but I have not been out of the house and garden for a month.

 

a belated horologistic Easter then. or for the literature lover "De Proundis".