An early Victorian mahogany longcase regulator, circa 1840 The case with arched top and on a stepped and panelled plinth, the glazed front door backed by a latched removable fretwork panel below the dial, the trunk baseboard with aperture and associated silvered beatscale inscribed GREENWICH TIME , the 12in. silvered dial of regulator format with outside minute ring and subsidiary seconds and Roman hour rings to the centre, signed Alex Marshall Glasgow , with blued steel hands, the substantial four pillar movement with shouldered and spot-finished plates, back-screwed pillars, with double carriage jewelled pallets to the deadbeat escapement, high count train, wheels secured to the collets and with six crossings, Harrison's maintaining power, with unusual stopwork operated by the gut line, the crutch with beat adjustment, with rise and fall regulation operated via a key through the top of the case (possibly later), with rear winding square and unused hand-setting arbor, the mercury pendulum with nickel-finish rod and with conforming finish to the weight -- 69½in. (177cm.) high
An early Victorian mahogany longcase regulator, circa 1840 The case with arched top and on a stepped and panelled plinth, the glazed front door backed by a latched removable fretwork panel below the dial, the trunk baseboard with aperture and associated silvered beatscale inscribed GREENWICH TIME , the 12in. silvered dial of regulator format with outside minute ring and subsidiary seconds and Roman hour rings to the centre, signed Alex Marshall Glasgow , with blued steel hands, the substantial four pillar movement with shouldered and spot-finished plates, back-screwed pillars, with double carriage jewelled pallets to the deadbeat escapement, high count train, wheels secured to the collets and with six crossings, Harrison's maintaining power, with unusual stopwork operated by the gut line, the crutch with beat adjustment, with rise and fall regulation operated via a key through the top of the case (possibly later), with rear winding square and unused hand-setting arbor, the mercury pendulum with nickel-finish rod and with conforming finish to the weight -- 69½in. (177cm.) high
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