Jas. Howden Edinburgh c.1790 Stock No.3251

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Jas. Howden Edinburgh c.1790

An elegant ‘tear drop’ tavern clock, the 17” diameter wooden dial signed ‘Jas Howden, Edinburgh’, the weight driven square plated timepiece movement fronted by highly decorative pierced brass hands. protected by convex glass in a heavy moulded bezel with integral bezel lock. The mahogany case has a shaped removable door with a lock at the top, and a convex moulded foot.

Stock No.3251 

James Howden was apprenticed to James Cowan and is recorded working in Edinburgh from 1771, dying in 1810. He was succeeded by his two sons, James and William. A very similar tavern clock to this made by his erstwhile master, James Cowan, is illustrated in ‘The Tavern Clock’ (Martin Gatto, 2012), fig 4 – 11, p. 48