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A GEORGE III EIGHT-DAY TAVERN CLOCK
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A GEORGE III EIGHT-DAY TAVERN CLOCK

CIRCA 1760

已結束2013年9月19日

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A GEORGE III EIGHT-DAY TAVERN CLOCK
CIRCA 1760
CASE: with label This clock which dates from 1760, stood for about 120 years in the White Hart Inn, Ampthill, Beds. It was acquired by Sir Albert Richardson for the Avenue House Collection in 1920., also with pencil inscription From Houghton House Ampthill Bought for the Marquis of Tavistock 1765 Bought by A.E.R in Ampthill for Avenue House 1927, redecorated DIAL: circular painted dial with counter-poised minute hand MOVEMENT: the eight-day single-train timepiece movement with tapered plates, four knopped pillars and recoil anchor escapement, pendulum and weights
60½ in. (154 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) diameter; 7½ in. (19 cm.) deep

Almost certainly Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (1739-1767), Houghton House, Bedfordshire, 1765.
The White Hart Inn, Ampthill from where acquired circa 1927.

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This clock was rescued by Professor Sir Albert Richardson in 1926 when it was being turned out of the White Hart Inn, Ampthill. According to the inscription it had been there for 120 years before which it had been in the possession Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock at Houghton House, which lies just to the north of Ampthill. Houghton passed in 1767 to his son, also Francis Russell, who would become the 5th Duke of Bedford, and who stripped Houghton of its roof leaving it to decay. Houghton, thought to be the inspiration for House Beautiful in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, was one of Professor Richardson's early conservation projects and it was his efforts which eventually saved this magnificent structure from demolition by an unsympathetic local farmer.