3388 James Hargraves Bawtry c.1825

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James Hargraves Bawtry c.1825

An impressive trunk dial wall timepiece, the 12” diameter convex wooden dial signed ‘James Hargraves Bawtry’. The fusee movement with original anchor escapement has heavily ‘knopped’ pillars, and is fronted by brass matching hands, and is in a mahogany case with inlay to the trunk, and a moulded bezel, with integral lock, that still retains some of its original gilding.

Stock No. 3388

James Hargraves (sometimes Hargreaves) was born in 1768 and married Sarah Hibbard in 1797. He was established in Bawtry, (in South Yorkshire on the Great North Road) by 1807, and in premises in Swan Lane in 1822. He died in 1835.