A MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKTHE MOVEMENT AND DIAL BY JOHN BUSHMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1720, THE CASE LATERThe five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture to the matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers and Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track, with pierced steel hands and female mask centred scroll-pierced spandrels to angles, beneath arch centred with a silvered boss engraved John, Bushman, London flanked by dolphin cast mounts, now in a Victorian flame figured mahogany case with swan neck pediment over hinged break-arch glazed front flanked by free-standing baluster turned uprights, the trunk with concave throat moulding over short rectangular caddy moulded door, on plinth base with cavetto top moulding and shallow moulded skirt.211cm (83ins) high excluding finial; 54.5cm (21.5ins) wide, 26.5cm (10.5ins) deep.John Bushman (Buschmann) is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain as a `High German` watchmaker born circa 1661 and made brother of the Clockmaker`s Company in September 1692. He married Mary Wyatt in the Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster in December 1690, was made an Assistant of the Clockmaker`s Company in 1720 and was believed to be working until 1722. Baillie records that he was born in Hagen, Germany. From this is possible that he was related to the Buschmann dynasty of clockmakers who worked from Augsburg throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.