Yonge & Son, Strand London c.1820 Stock No.3268

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Yonge & Son, Strand London c.1820

An elegant Georgian fusee wall clock, the 13.5" flat wooden dial signed 'Yonge & Son, Strand London', the five pillar numbered fusee movement by Thwaites and Reed, in a mahogany case with turned dial surround, and quarter-round cast brass bezel with integral lock and  silvered sight ring. The brass hands are typical Thwaites 'pierced arrow' hands, the minute hand with counterbalance. The rear of the dial has the original instructions to the dial painter, and is also signed 'Lowther 1821' who is recorded as a case maker at that date.

Stock No.3268

The fine Thwaites movement has 'A' shaped plates, with the number punched on the top of the front plate. Instructions to the original dial painter show that things never change - added is 'as soon as possible'!

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.

Thomas Nicholas Lowther is recorded as one of a number of Lowthers, as a clock case maker working in Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, c.1820 - 1832