Lot 102A

- Engraving and dial in keeping of time and style
- Wear consistent with age
- brass finials likely modern
- expansion cracks to veneer on hood, gouge on side panel
- small crack on top of plinth left hand side
- overall nice untouched dry condition, original glass to dial
- silvered dial with slight creas across from VIII to IV but this may be in making.
- Not tested for time, with trunk key, winder pendulum and weights


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Commissioned by Major-General J. M. Antill, Jarvisfield NSW (by repute)
Thence by descent to Julia Campbell Antill via marriage in Picton to John Weston Perry of Horsley Estate, Smithfield, May 1898
Retained by the family of Mr D.K.W. Perry, Sydney

Richard Johnson (1770-1844) was born in London where he trained as a chronometer, watch and clock maker. He emigrated to Australia with his wife Elizabeth on the 15th of August 1833 and they lived in Newtown. Soon after arriving he opened a watchmaker's shop in George St, Sydney. On the 18th of August 1835 he was made Superintendent of Government Clocks, a position he held until the early 1840's when he moved to Maitland to establish his business there.

Scarcity of materials during this period led to copper instead of the traditional brass being used for the clock face. It is thought this copper was sourced from excess material used in the manufacture of the Hyde Park Barracks clock.