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Simpson, Wigton, an oak and mahogany moonphase longcase clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the twelve-inch break-arch brass dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and outer five-minute numerals, the silvered centre with decorative scroll engraving and marked to the outer aspect for the sweep date hand, with a subsidiary seconds dial and signed for the maker Simpson, Wigton, with cast-brass female-head spandrels to the four corners, and having a moon-phase disc to the arch painted with the moon against a blue ground with gilt stars, the oak case having mahogany crossbanding to the trunk, door, hood and base, the swan-neck pediment with brass ball-and-spire finial to the centre and brass patrea, the hood having full pillars with cast-brass Corinthian capitals, the trunk with canted corners and boxwood stringing to the mahogany upper panel, the base standing on bracket feet, height 226cm (inc. finial) * Biography the Simpson family of clockmakers were Quakers with the brothers John and Joseph setting up business circa 1758. John died in 1796 and Joseph soon after with John Simpson Junior continuing the business until his death in 1837. The majority of their clocks were of thirty-hour duration, but a number of eight-day examples are known with at least two housing musical movements. See Brian Loomes 'Clockmakers of Northern England', Mayfield Books 2007.