* Longcase Clock. A George III longcase clock by John Safley, Edinburgh

Longcase Clock. A George III longcase clock by John Safley, Edinburgh, circa 1780, the 42 x 30cm brass dial with silvered chapter dial with black roman numerals, calendar aperture, a silvered dial engraved with masonic compass emblem and minutes, 3 winding holes, two dials to the arch for hours strick [sic] and quarters strick [sic], pierced brass spandrels, the movement with 8 bells, housed in a red walnut case with hood with broken arch pediment with fret cut scrolls, with weights and pendulum, 225cm highQTY: (1)NOTE:A manuscript note card is affixed to the inner door incribed 'John Safley Nicholson's Street Edinburgh (1764 (d.1803). A Scottish Masonic Lodge clock, red walnut architecrural case with "broken pediment" carved acanthus and 'egg & dart' mouldings. Superb 8 bell three train quarter chiming movement. Having 'dead beat' escapement, a detached 'star wheel' and 'continuous snail' on the strike train, a massive pendulum for accuracy, and steel work and blued of the highest quality'John Safley became a freeman clockmaker in Endinburgh in 1765, he died in 1803.