It was at the Isle of Wight firm Island Auction Rooms. This remarkable Longcase took £240,000 on August 7.

The 7ft 9in (2.38m) high clock combines a year-going striking movement by the celebrated maker Daniel Quare (c.1647-1724) with a première partie brass, pewter and tortoiseshell boulle case inlaid with Berainesque designs.

It had been previously sold in the early 1970s by Winchester dealer G.H. Bell to a clock connoisseur from the Isle of Wight, whose family offered it for sale

The late owner had tried to sell it through Christie’s in 1987, but it failed to make its reserve (it was bid to £78,000)

The price comfortably beats the £135,000 achieved by Tennants of Leyburn for a burr walnut Longcase c.1740 by George Graham in July 2006.

The buyer’s premium was 15 %

So the auctioneer made a bob or two.

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