Thomas Hampson, Wrexham - an oak longcase clock with the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the backplate engraved with a D above LH surrounded with engraved stars, the twelve-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markings, diamond half quarter-hour markings, and signed 'Hampson, Wrexham, 486' either side of 30, the matted centre with engraved decoration to the date aperture, ringed winding holes and a subsidiary seconds dial, with decorative blued steel hands and female-head spandrels to the four corners, the oak case with crossbanding to the trunk door and base, three-quarter columns with giltwood capitals to the hood and a blind fret below the caddy top, standing on bracket feet, height: 224cm * Thomas Hampson of Wrexham is recorded as working in the High Street from before 1728 until at least 1748, his home known as 'The Clock'. He was a prolific maker and numbered the majority of his clocks on the dial, as in this example. Two longcase clocks are in the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans with another two in Wrexham Museum. It is known that Hampson made the sundial for Llandderfel churchyard. His son Thomas carried on the clockmaking business and is known to have been working prior to 1772.
Thomas Hampson, Wrexham - an oak longcase clock with the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the backplate engraved with a D above LH surrounded with engraved stars, the twelve-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markings, diamond half quarter-hour markings, and signed 'Hampson, Wrexham, 486' either side of 30, the matted centre with engraved decoration to the date aperture, ringed winding holes and a subsidiary seconds dial, with decorative blued steel hands and female-head spandrels to the four corners, the oak case with crossbanding to the trunk door and base, three-quarter columns with giltwood capitals to the hood and a blind fret below the caddy top, standing on bracket feet, height: 224cm * Thomas Hampson of Wrexham is recorded as working in the High Street from before 1728 until at least 1748, his home known as 'The Clock'. He was a prolific maker and numbered the majority of his clocks on the dial, as in this example. Two longcase clocks are in the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans with another two in Wrexham Museum. It is known that Hampson made the sundial for Llandderfel churchyard. His son Thomas carried on the clockmaking business and is known to have been working prior to 1772.
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