J. Smith and Son Clerkenwell for Clark Bishop Stortford. c.1870

Smith and Son Clerkenwell for Clark Bishop Stortford.

The frame of this skeleton clock is a J.Smith Clerkenwell design. (See ‘British Skeleton Clocks’, by Derek Roberts, published by Antique Collectors Club,1987, Fig ¾6a, p.133). This firm was set up in c.1840, and between about 1850 and 1900 was one of the premier London clock factories. Henry J Clark is recorded working in Bishop Stortford in 1874, and would have been the retailer of this clock, adding his name to it on a plaque.

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