Tompion trouble led to this Banger rarity
FEW clocks can claim to be as rare as this example, pictured right, which is being offered for sale at Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex on October 23. The rarity is based in part on the maker’s misfortune.
Edward Banger, born to a Somerset joiner and his wife around 1668, was apprenticed to his future wif…