Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Lot 617
George Page, Naveby and George Usher, Lincoln, an oak and mahogany longcase clock having an eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the eleven-and-a-half inch painted break-arch dial having black Roman hour numerals, subsidiary seconds and date apertures, with painted cottages to the four corners and a further rural scene painted within the arch depicting a farmer with his dog, signed to the centre with the maker’s name ‘Geo. Page, Navenby’, with decorative brass hands, the oak case having mahogany crossbanding to the base, a shaped top to the trunk door, scroll-topped canted corners with ebonised inlaid stringing, the hood with further string to the door, fluted pillars with cast brass capitals, a swan-neck pediment with brass paterae and three ball-and-spire finials, the inside of the case bearing a label stating ‘George Usher, Cabinet and Case maker, Lincoln, No...’ the serial number being indistinct but possibly ‘15’, height: 215cm. * George Page is recorded as working in Navenby, Lincolnshire from before 1854 and was a member of a long line of well-known clockmakers working in the area over a number of generations. * George Usher was a cabinetmaker working in Lincoln during the mid-Victorian period and was a member of the cabinet making and watchmaking family of that name which included James Ward Usher, the jeweller, watchmaker, collector and entrepreneur who left a bequest to found the famous Usher gallery in Lincoln.
