An early 18th century and later oak longcase clock with eight day movement striking on a bell, the 12-inch square brass dial with matt centre, silvered subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, framed by a silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and outer Arabic minutes, inscribed 'John Tolson London', the hood with turned columns and glazed door above a rectangular trunk door, on a plain base and plinth, height 203cm, with pendulum and two weights (alterations and restoration). Note: John Tolson is recorded in 'Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World' by Brian Loomes as working in Bishopsgate, London, apprenticed in 1708 and made free of the Clockmakers Company in 1715. He was born in 1691 and died in 1737, aged 45.