3448 - Edwards London c.1820

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Edwards London  c.1820

A very fine Regency bracket clock the round porcelain enamel dial signed ‘Edwards London’, sitting behind an elegantly chased brass mask, the movement signed ‘Edwards Shoreditch’ in a pagoda top ebonised case with delicate brass inlay, topped by a brass pineapple finial.

Stock No. 3448

This clock has an interesting provenance. It was acquired by George Fludyer, who died in 1837, and it passed by descent to Sir Arthur Fludyer, 5th and last baronet who died childless in 1922. It then passed to his sister Katherine who married Henry Randolph Finch, of The Croft, Manton, second son of George Finch, Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, and by descent thereafter until it was sold at auction in 2016. The Finch family had the title of the Earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham, Burley-on-the Hill.

There are a number of repair marks on the movement, the earliest in 1826 by the distinguished clockmaker Tupman. There is also a note on the (since repaired) dial saying ‘This dial was broken by F.Langley, Butler to Sir A. Fludyer’.

There are many makers with the name Edwards, but without an initial it is not possible to identify the maker; but it may have been Benjamin Edwards who is recorded working in Shoreditch at around that time.