A GEORGE II WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKTHOMAS JENKINSON, SANDWICH, CIRCA 1730The five-pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch square brass dial with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture to the richly matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with diamond lozenge half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and signed Thomas, Jenkinson, Sand:,wich to lower edge, with pierced steel hands and mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles, in a case with architectural moulded cornice and plain frieze over hinged glazed front applied with Solomonic twist-turned three-quarter columns to front angles, the sides with rectangular windows and plain quarter columns applied to bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with concave throat moulding over caddy moulded rectangular door fronted with quartered veneers within crossbanded borders, on conforming plinth base with concave upper moulding and plain skirt.218cm (86ins) high, 49.5cm (19.5ins) wide, 26cm (10.25ins) deep at the cornice.Thomas Jenkinson is listed in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as being recorded by Michael Person as born around 1656 and apprenticed in 1711 to Joseph Booth of Sandwich, Kent. Jenkinson gained his freedom in 1719, was married to Sarah Bing in 1723 and worked in Sandwich until his death in 1755.