The dial to Tompion No.241, a previously unrecorded longcase with a walnut and mulberry case on offer from Howard Walwyn at Masterpiece.
Kensington Church Street clock dealer Howard Walwyn will offer this previously unknown Thomas Tompion walnut and mulberry longcase at the Masterpiece fair in London.
The clock, numbered to both the well-preserved eight-day movement and the trunk door 241 for c.1694, fills one of the missing gaps in the Tompion oeuvre. As is indicated on an old trade label inside the trunk door of the case: This clock stood for many years at Halswell Hall Devonshire the ancestoral [sic] home of the late Lord Wharton.