A GEORGE III MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKTHOMAS HUNTER JUNIOR, LONDON, CIRCA 1775The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with recessed silvered subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture to the centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll-pierced steel hands and cast rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath arch with circular silvered signature boss engraved Tho's Hunter Jun'r. London flanked by conforming scroll cast mounts, the case with concave sided 'pagoda' upstand incorporating shaped fretwork panel to fascia over cavetto moulded break-arch cornice and hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by brass stop-fluted columns, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with concave throat moulding over flame-figured mahogany break-arch door applied with complex mouldings to edges, the base with concave top mouldings over rectangular raised panel, moulded double skirt and block feet.244cm (96ins) 56cm (22ins) wide, 28cm (11ins) deep.Thomas Hunter junior is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed 1734 gaining his freedom in 1742, he worked from New Broad Street Buildings, was appointed Warden in 1762 then served as Master in 1765, he died in 1785.