A George II mahogany longcase clock, the case on bracket feet with canted angles to plinth with raised shaped panel, ¼-columns to trunk flanking the shaped door with brass escutchion, the hood with plain detached columns supporting the broken-arched top with pierced gilt brass sound frets, the dial signed Charles Haley, London on the silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, pierced blued hands, mask-and-foliate spandrels, the arch with subsidiary ring engraved Tempus Fugit with pendulum automaton in the matted centre, the five-pillar rack striking movement with anchor escapement and strike on bell

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A George II mahogany longcase clock, the case on bracket feet with canted angles to plinth with raised shaped panel, ¼-columns to trunk flanking the shaped door with brass escutchion, the hood with plain detached columns supporting the broken-arched top with pierced gilt brass sound frets, the dial signed Charles Haley, London on the silvered chapter ring, the matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture, pierced blued hands, mask-and-foliate spandrels, the arch with subsidiary ring engraved Tempus Fugit with pendulum automaton in the matted centre, the five-pillar rack striking movement with anchor escapement and strike on bell
7ft.5in. (226cm.) high

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