Thwaites & Reed, Clerkenwell c.1886 Stock No.3217

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 Thwaites & Reed, Clerkenwell c.1886

A top quality late Victorian wall timepiece, the 12” diameter painted flat iron dial signed ‘Thwaites & Reed, Clerkenwell’. The fusee movement is numbered 15059 – dating it to 1886. The oak case has a turned surround and one side and one rear access door, and a cast brass bezel.

Stock No.3217

John Thwaites, son of Aynsworth Thwaites, was working from around 1761, and became the first wholesale maker, making both movements alone and entire clocks for other clockmakers. In 1814 he entered partnership with George Jeremiah Reed and the firm of Thwaites and Reed continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century.