Lot 7023
A 19th century oak and mahogany longcase clock by William Pybus, Caistor, Lincolnshire, Swan neck p...
A 19th century oak and mahogany longcase clock by William Pybus, Caistor, Lincolnshire, Swan neck pediment with brass paterae and a central brass finial, break arch door flanked by reeded pillars with capitals, trunk with canted corners, full length crossbanded door with a flat top and angled corners, on a rectangular plinth with a shaped base, 12”painted break arch dial inscribed “W Pybus, Caistor” with painted and gilt decoration to the arch and spandrels, upright Arabic numerals, 15 minute Arabic’s and minute markers, matching stamped “thistle” brass hands and semi-circular calendar aperture with calendar disc behind, subsidiary seconds dial and hand, dial pinned directly to an eight-day rack striking movement with recoil escapement, striking the hours on a cast bell. With pendulum and weights.
There were two father and son clockmakers both called William Pybus working in Caistor from 1783 to 1861. This clock c1820-30.
10026
SOLD £360