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A Good Oak Eight Day Longcase Clock with an Interesting Engraved Coat of Arms for the Robinson Family, signed Will Wilson, Kendal, circa 1755, swan neck pediment, inset front columns, nicely figured trunk door with crossbanded inlaid outer borders, brick work decoration to the lower sides of the trunk, plinth with canted corners, 13-inch arch brass dial with a silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring signed, arch with silvered plaque with engraved Coat of Arms, four pillar movement with an anchor escapement and rack striking on a bell227cm highThe Coat of Arms is for the Robinson family and it would have been owned by John W Robinson of Highgate in Kendal at the time. John W Robinson was Mayor in Kendal in 1756-57.This clockmaker William Wilson was apprenticed to William Burton of Kendal in 1735. He purchased clock cases from Gillows and supplied them with a clock. Some of his clocks are displayed in Nunnington Hall near York (this clock was owned by a W Rutson, Mayor of Kendal 1772), and also displayed at Cannon Hall, WR of Yorkshire and Abbott Hall, in Kendal.Case has a good colour and a nice patina to the surfaces, some signs of small cracks to the hood sides, top central finial with wear and chips, front of the plinth with a central crack, trunk door slightly bowed, signs of old woodworm holes to the backboard and the topside of the hood which are now non-active, dial is clean, movement is clean. With pendulum and two weights.
