Thomas Tompion and Edward Banger London No 463

Thomas Tompion and Edward Banger London No 463.

A fine and rare Queen Anne period ‘Type 3’ longcase clock by this famous partnership. 
The case is veneered with figured walnut. The hood has pierced sound frets above two doric columns, a caddy top with mounts supporting three brass ball finials. The trunk door is numbered 463 on the leading edge. 
The 11 inch square brass dial is mounted with Indian mask and scroll spandrels. The silvered chapter ring has Roman hours and an outer Arabic 5 minute band. The finely matted centre has a subsidiary Arabic seconds dial and a chamfered date aperture with pin hole adjustment. It is signed on a polished reserve Tho: Tompion, EDW BANGER, LONDON.
The 6-pillar 8-day duration anchor escapement movement is fully latched and there is a cut out on the  backplate to release the anchor. It is rack striking with the hours sounded on a bell. The movement is punch-numbered 463 on the lower edge of the backplate.

Date: circa 1707.

Height: 95 ½ in (242 cm) .

* Thomas Tompion is universally regarded as the greatest of the clockmakers from the Golden Age of English Horology. Born in Ickwell Green, Bedfordshire in 1639, he moved to London in 1671 and became a Free Brother in the Clockmakers’ Company. In 1674 he established his business at the sign of The Dial and Three Crowns in Water Lane now called Whitefriars Street, and met Dr Robert Hooke, an eminent physicist and mathematician, who helped him with his movement designs. Through this association, Tompion came to the notice of Charles II and from that time he held an unrivalled position in English horology. Tompion died in 1713 and is buried at Westminster Abbey.
There are comparatively few clocks signed by Thomas Tompion and Edward Banger. The latter had been Tompion’s apprentice and he was made free of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1695. By 1708, the pair had quarrelled and there are no further jointly made clocks recorded. 
This clock is fully described and illustrated in Thomas Tompion - 300 Years by Evans, Carter and Wright on pages 480-481. It is also listed on page 80 of Jeremy Evans’ book Tompion at the Dial and Three Crowns.

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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