John Rayment, Huntingdon, an oak longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, with the twelve-inch brass break-arch dial having a raised, silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals and outer Arabic five-minute numerals, the matted dial centre having a date aperture and subsidiary date aperture, with cast-brass urn spandrels to the four corners, the arch with a round silvered boss engraved with the makers name Jno. Rayment, Huntingdon and with cast-brass dolphin spandrels to either side, the oak case having a break-arch hood with three-quarter turned pillars, with boxwood stringing to the break-arch trunk door and having a plain base, height 203 cms.* Biography John Rayment, born 1715, the son of clockmaker Richard Rayment is recorded as working from at least 1751 in Huntingdon and died in 1795. He was succeeded by his son, also John, born circa 1745 who is known working in Stamford, Lincolnshire also as an auctioneer, silversmith and dentist before becoming master of the Ladies' Boarding School at Huntingdon.