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A VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT MONTH-GOING WALL REGULATOR
CHARLES FRODSHAM, LONDON, NO. 1310. CIRCA 1870
A VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT MONTH-GOING WALL REGULATOR CHARLES FRODSHAM, LONDON, NO. 1310. CIRCA 1870 CASE: arched, with ormolu foliate cresting mount and fruiting finials to the top, further ormolu mounts to front angles, with glazed sides and trunk door, this with cast ormolu frame, further scroll and artistic trophy mounts to the chamfered front angles, with tapering terminal below DIAL: with engraved ormolu bezel to a dial with foliate engraved ormolu mask to silvered and engraved Roman chapter disc, its silvered centre also with foliate engraving and with subsidiary seconds dial, blued steel hands, signed on an oval above 'CHAS. FRODSHAM/Maker to the Queen/84 STRAND LONDON/1310' MOVEMENT: with thick rectangular plates joined by four double-screwed pillars, spot-finished back plate, the large chain fusee and barrel with Harrison's maintaining power, jewelled pivots to the dead beat escape wheel with unusual curved and jewelled pallets, the steel-rod pendulum suspended from a brass backboard bracket, steel-cased mercury jar bob (mercury removed) with engraved calibration scale to the top and pointer swinging against a silver calibrated beat scale engraved '(RAD 45ins.) CHARLES FRODSHAM, 84 STRAND, LONDON'; two case keys 63 in. (160 cm.) high; 12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) deep