Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 565A
John Thwaites, London and Goodman, Kentish Town, A mahogany bracket clock with bracket, the five pillar, eight day duration movement striking the hours on a bell with pull repeat, with the backplate engraved with typical Thwaites border engraving and signed to the centre `Goodman, Kentish Town`, the frontplate stamped `I. Thwaites` with the serial number `3727`, the seven inch round, convex painted dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel decorative hands and signed `Goodman, Kentish Town`, with a gilt cast brass bezel, the arched `lancet top` mahogany case having raised moulding to the front, brass fishscale frets to the sides, complete with matching mahogany bracket, height 45 cms, 68 cm (inc. bracket). * John Thwaites (the ` J` usually stamped `I`) was a well known clockmaker having been apprenticed in 1772 and becoming a member of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1782 until his death in 1820. He supplied many of the leading clockmaker`s of the period with both movements and finished clocks as in this case. In 1808 he went into partnership with George Jeremiah Reed to form Thwaites & Reed who continued the business with the same practices. The serial number, 3727, indicates a date of manufacture of 1806.
