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Gloucestershire / Re: Bristol area 1780s - any chance of identification?
« on: Thursday 25 April 19 18:53 BST (UK) »
Hello Josey,
This is the cllock face of the Chertsey museum Milsom Clock. I think the case hood is later than the clock mechanism.
The clock is the treasure of my father Willliam Ebden and he lives in Kent which is far from me and you would need to ask him directly.
The clock may have been bought in Bristol by my father's maternal great grandfather John Marshal, whose own father was a Bridgewater cabinet maker. John Marshal became a school master and eventually the founder of an educational publishing house in London. But he would have had west country roots.
My family also descend from the Milsoms of Bath and Bristol which is coincidental.
I now have higher resolution images of the Will Milsomn clock sold by Havard and Havard of Cowbridge.
My father's clock goes like a tick. It was restored by Charles Allix, who wrote the Antique Collectors Club book on the English Carriage Clock.
Kind regards,
Edward
This is the cllock face of the Chertsey museum Milsom Clock. I think the case hood is later than the clock mechanism.
The clock is the treasure of my father Willliam Ebden and he lives in Kent which is far from me and you would need to ask him directly.
The clock may have been bought in Bristol by my father's maternal great grandfather John Marshal, whose own father was a Bridgewater cabinet maker. John Marshal became a school master and eventually the founder of an educational publishing house in London. But he would have had west country roots.
My family also descend from the Milsoms of Bath and Bristol which is coincidental.
I now have higher resolution images of the Will Milsomn clock sold by Havard and Havard of Cowbridge.
My father's clock goes like a tick. It was restored by Charles Allix, who wrote the Antique Collectors Club book on the English Carriage Clock.
Kind regards,
Edward