13th Jun, 2024 10:30
Summer Specialist Sale
George III walnut-cased 8-day brass dial longcase clock, Mayhew, Woodbridge
George III walnut-cased 8-day brass dial longcase clock, William Mayhew, Woodbridge [Suffolk], (1725-1791), the 12-inch square brass dial having a silver chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, signed "Will'm Mayhew WOOD BRIDGE", framing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar square, within baroque urn spandrels, the movement with four knopped pillars, the case with giltwood urn finials and pierced swan-neck pediment over crossbanded frieze, turned columns, boxwood-strung trunk with matching door and base with plinth, 199cm high (sold with two lead weights, pendulum, key and winder)
Literature: See 'Suffolk Roots' (Journal of the Suffolk Family History Society), Vol. 48 No. 1 (June 2022), pp. 13-20, wherein an article by Liz Brooks entitled 'William Mayhew and the Mayhew Family of Clockmakers of Parham, Suffolk' details:
William Mayhew was apprenticed to John Calver in 1741 for a fee of £40. Mayhew himself took on five apprentices during his long career, from 1754 onwards. He married Elizabeth Goodwin at St. Mary's Church, Woodbridge in 1772 and the couple settled at 'Woodcock' in Parham Bridge. William became a prominent member of the 'Woodbridge Association'. He died on 27th January 1791 and is buried in nearby Martlesham. His obituary appeared in the Ipswich Journal two days later:
‘Wednesday evening died, in the 66th year of his age, Mr William Mayhew, of Woodbridge, watchmaker. He was truly a man in whom there was no guile; sincere and upright in all his dealings. He was a self-taught genius, and had acquired a very considerable knowledge of mathematics and philosophy. Without having seen an orrery till many years afterwards, as soon as his apprenticeship was expired, he constructed one of his own, on the most simple principles, and finished it in the most elegant manner.’
An advertisement for the stock appeared in the Ipswich Journal of 12 and 19 February 1791:
‘WOODBRIDGE Now Selling Off at PRIME COST, or under. All the Stock in Trade of the late Mr WM Mayhew, Watchmaker and Silversmith, deceased, at his late Shop in Stone Street, Woodbridge; consisting of 8 day and other clocks, new and second hand watches, silver table and other spoons, a large assortment of fashionable silver and plated buckles and spurs, and a great variety of articles in the silversmith branch, which will continue on sale at very low prices till the whole are disposed of.'
Sold for £520
George III walnut-cased 8-day brass dial longcase clock, William Mayhew, Woodbridge [Suffolk], (1725-1791), the 12-inch square brass dial having a silver chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes, signed "Will'm Mayhew WOOD BRIDGE", framing a matted centre with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar square, within baroque urn spandrels, the movement with four knopped pillars, the case with giltwood urn finials and pierced swan-neck pediment over crossbanded frieze, turned columns, boxwood-strung trunk with matching door and base with plinth, 199cm high (sold with two lead weights, pendulum, key and winder)
Literature: See 'Suffolk Roots' (Journal of the Suffolk Family History Society), Vol. 48 No. 1 (June 2022), pp. 13-20, wherein an article by Liz Brooks entitled 'William Mayhew and the Mayhew Family of Clockmakers of Parham, Suffolk' details:
William Mayhew was apprenticed to John Calver in 1741 for a fee of £40. Mayhew himself took on five apprentices during his long career, from 1754 onwards. He married Elizabeth Goodwin at St. Mary's Church, Woodbridge in 1772 and the couple settled at 'Woodcock' in Parham Bridge. William became a prominent member of the 'Woodbridge Association'. He died on 27th January 1791 and is buried in nearby Martlesham. His obituary appeared in the Ipswich Journal two days later:
‘Wednesday evening died, in the 66th year of his age, Mr William Mayhew, of Woodbridge, watchmaker. He was truly a man in whom there was no guile; sincere and upright in all his dealings. He was a self-taught genius, and had acquired a very considerable knowledge of mathematics and philosophy. Without having seen an orrery till many years afterwards, as soon as his apprenticeship was expired, he constructed one of his own, on the most simple principles, and finished it in the most elegant manner.’
An advertisement for the stock appeared in the Ipswich Journal of 12 and 19 February 1791:
‘WOODBRIDGE Now Selling Off at PRIME COST, or under. All the Stock in Trade of the late Mr WM Mayhew, Watchmaker and Silversmith, deceased, at his late Shop in Stone Street, Woodbridge; consisting of 8 day and other clocks, new and second hand watches, silver table and other spoons, a large assortment of fashionable silver and plated buckles and spurs, and a great variety of articles in the silversmith branch, which will continue on sale at very low prices till the whole are disposed of.'
Auction: Summer Specialist Sale, 13th Jun, 2024
Our Summer Specialist Sale of Fine Furniture, Modern Design, Paintings, Prints, Silver, Jewellery, Watches, Ceramics, Glassware & other Collectors
Highlights included an Austral Islands Cheif's staff £15,500, a Large Minton majolica elephant four-branch candelabrum centrepiece £6,200, an Asscher cut diamond (approx. 4.5 carats) platinum ring £11,500, The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, K.C.S.I £12,500, and an early 19th century double-sided micromosaic table box £11,000.
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Wednesday 12th June - 10am till 5pm
