Lot Essay
Sir Nicholas Goodison noted: Benjamin Vulliamy's Clock Books, which survive in the British Horological Institute, give full details of the manufacture of clocks from Nos. 296-469 and 746-1067. No. 296 is recorded in 1797. Similar timepieces, with different medallions, are recorded at Crichel, Dorset and Harewood, Yorkshire (No. 293).