A George III style mahogany hour-striking miniature longcase regulator Unsigned, the movement early 19th century, the dial and case later The substantial five knopped pillar bell striking movement with five-spoke wheel crossings, Harrison’s maintaining power and deadbeat escapement with adjustable pallets regulated by wood rod seconds pendulum with large brass lenticular bob and position adjustment screws to the ‘T’-bar suspension, now with 9 inch shallow ogee-arch top silvered brass dial with subsidiary seconds over Arabic twenty-four hour dial to centre within outer minute track, with blued steel hands, winding hole shutter lever to upper right hand corner and N/S selection lever to arch, in a purpose made mahogany case with shallow chamfered stepped superstructure over cavetto cornice, plain frieze, glazed dial aperture and rectangular side windows to hood, the trunk with concave throat and flame figured caddy moulded rectangular door, on crossbanded plinth base with moulded skirt, 171cm (67ins) high. Provenance: From the estate of Michael Hurst. Condition report disclaimer
A George III style mahogany hour-striking miniature longcase regulator Unsigned, the movement early 19th century, the dial and case later The substantial five knopped pillar bell striking movement with five-spoke wheel crossings, Harrison’s maintaining power and deadbeat escapement with adjustable pallets regulated by wood rod seconds pendulum with large brass lenticular bob and position adjustment screws to the ‘T’-bar suspension, now with 9 inch shallow ogee-arch top silvered brass dial with subsidiary seconds over Arabic twenty-four hour dial to centre within outer minute track, with blued steel hands, winding hole shutter lever to upper right hand corner and N/S selection lever to arch, in a purpose made mahogany case with shallow chamfered stepped superstructure over cavetto cornice, plain frieze, glazed dial aperture and rectangular side windows to hood, the trunk with concave throat and flame figured caddy moulded rectangular door, on crossbanded plinth base with moulded skirt, 171cm (67ins) high. Provenance: From the estate of Michael Hurst. Condition report disclaimer
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