Joshua Farrer, Pontefract, a mahogany longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the associated twelve-inch break-arch dial having a raised silvered chapter ring with engraved black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markings and outer Arabic five-minute markings, signed Joshua Farrer, Pontefract, the matted centre with a subsidiary date aperture and having decorative blued steel hands, with cast-brass 'crown' spandrels to the four corners and 'cherub and crown' mount to the arch, the mahogany case having a swan-neck pediment, applied pillars to the hood with brass Corinthian capitals, shell inlay to the shaped trunk door, hood and base, the trunk with canted corners, all standing on bracket feet, height 230cms.* Biography Joshua Farrer, born 1788, is recorded as working in Pontefract until 1862, being a member of this prolific clockmaking family whose origins can be traced back to William and/or Abraham in Pontefract, Yorkshire.* Notes Ref Brian Loomes, Clockmakers of Northern England, Pub. Mayfield Books 1997.