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Tavernicus Clock - 30 Years in the Making - 2009/04/15 22:39
The Tavernicus clock is shown on the home page and in the GALLERY with detailed photos. Click on the link to view
http://www.tavernicus.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_easygallery&act=categories&cid=43&Itemid=47
This clock is not for sale but it is finally finished after thirty years of intermittent work. I found the dial (only) in an antique shop in Northamptonshire in 1988. After minor repairs to the dial I made the trunk out of softwood with an oak door. It is all my own work but for the base moulding which was completed by Chris Moss in Bath some 25+ years later. In between time the movement was "made" by Rosemary & Time in Thame. The photographs in the Gallery show that it is an adapted "original" tavern clock movement. After about 5 years the clock was complete but for its base and that is how it stayed (working but unpainted) until Tavernicus was established. At that point the trunk was base coated by Jay Smith in Bath who sadly was unable to finish the gilding. Glynis Overton then completed the gilding, chinoiserie, dial re-touching and lacquering. The dial is not repainted but is as found with retouching. On the 15 April 2009 I wirewool polished the case and attached the escutcheon which has waited over 20 years to be pinned in place. The movement now needs to be cleaned and oiled but is working. It has been a long time coming but represents the DNA of the setting up of Tavernicus.
This clock is neither a replica nor a recreation. I like to think of it rather like the Greek Urns in the British Museum which although complete are just assemblies of actual shards with the new clay visible. The dial is original and so the trunk lacquer is not aged and the appearance of the glistening gilding is more like the look that the original trunk would have had in or around 1780
Post edited by: Gattom, at: 2009/04/15 22:52
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