Samuel Shepley, Stockport, an oak longcase clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the twelve-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and five-minute outer numerals with decorative 'flame' half-hour markings and signed either side of VI o'clock for the maker Sam. Shepley, Stockport, the matted centre engraved with floral decoration and having a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with cast-brass c-scroll spandrels and blued steel hands, the flat-top oak case with mahogany crossbanding, the hood having full pillars with gilt-wood capitals, the trunk with quarter columns set into the corners, the base with canted corners, with further crossbanding to the shaped trunk door, height 188cm * Biography Samuel Shepley was a member of the well known Stockport clockmaking family working in the area in the 18th century. Born in 1749, he married Martha Heginbotham in 1755 and is known to have undertaken various works for St Mary's Parish Church including maintaining the clock, having taken over the role from his father in 1753, with his last act before his death in 1780 being to repair the clock and chimes in 1779. See Edmund Davies 'Greater Manchester Clocks and Clockmakers', Mayfield Books 2007.
Samuel Shepley, Stockport, an oak longcase clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the twelve-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and five-minute outer numerals with decorative 'flame' half-hour markings and signed either side of VI o'clock for the maker Sam. Shepley, Stockport, the matted centre engraved with floral decoration and having a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, with cast-brass c-scroll spandrels and blued steel hands, the flat-top oak case with mahogany crossbanding, the hood having full pillars with gilt-wood capitals, the trunk with quarter columns set into the corners, the base with canted corners, with further crossbanding to the shaped trunk door, height 188cm * Biography Samuel Shepley was a member of the well known Stockport clockmaking family working in the area in the 18th century. Born in 1749, he married Martha Heginbotham in 1755 and is known to have undertaken various works for St Mary's Parish Church including maintaining the clock, having taken over the role from his father in 1753, with his last act before his death in 1780 being to repair the clock and chimes in 1779. See Edmund Davies 'Greater Manchester Clocks and Clockmakers', Mayfield Books 2007.
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