30-hour 18th century oak cased longcase clock by Jeremiah Standring of Bolton, (Lancs) c 1770, with a swan's neck pediment on a flat top with a blind frieze beneath, square brass dial flanked by reeded pilasters and wooden capitals, long trunk door with a concave wavy top, trunk with reeded quarter columns on a rectangular plinth on a decorative skirting, dial with a formerly silvered chapter ring and engraved dial centre, with Roman numerals, five minute Arabic's, square date aperture, circular boss engraved with the makers name, cast spandrels and �dummy� winding arbors, dial pinned directly to a rope driven countwheel striking movement, striking the hours on a bell. With weight and pendulum. 30-hour clocks with �dummy� winding arbors are more commonly found on later 19th century painted dial longcase clocks, this is an earlier example by a recorded Lancashire clock maker born in Rochdale in 1712, dying in Bolton 1782. Dimensions: Height: 225cm  Length/Width: 48cm  Depth/Diameter: 23cm