John Seddon, Frodsham, a fine Georgian walnut longcase clock...

John Seddon, Frodsham, a fine Georgian walnut longcase clock with revolving globe moon, the eight-day duration movement having an anchor escapement and striking the hours on a bell with an inside countwheel and ringed movement pillars, with brass-cased weights, the thirteen-inch break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markings, Arabic five-minute numerals, eight-hour markings and engraved below VI o'clock with the makers name Jon. Seddon, Frodsham, the matted dial centre having a subsidiary seconds dial, a date aperture with engraved surround, silvered ringed winding holes and applied cast-brass decoration, with engraved wheat-ear engraving below the arch and cast-brass gilded cherub-head spandrels to the four corners, the arch with cast-brass dolphin spandrels, and a revolving globe moon showing the moon-phases with a silvered, engraved surround, with blued-steel hands and a gilded-brass concave bezel, the typical Seddon-style walnut case having an arched hood with fret-work frieze, concave moulding and three-quarter columns, the cross-banded trunk door having a bulls-eye glass with the base standing on bracket feet, height 220cm. John Seddon and his brother Samuel are recorded as makers of very fine clocks, working in Frodsham, Cheshire following a family clockmaking tradition with their church records going back to 1676. Note: A manuscript 'in the National Archives, London 'Acquittances for new clock at Westminster Abbey', dated 1738-39, now held in the Westminster Abbey Library

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