Is this Knibb’s earliest surviving clock?
This Charles II eight-day longcase clock by Joseph Knibb – a ‘snapshot’ of early longcase clock development – doubled its estimate to sell for £240,000 at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions sale in Donnington Priory.
The rare survivor is one of only four documented longcase clocks from Knibb's time in Oxford (c.1662…