AN EARLY VICTORIAN MINIATURE LONGCASE REGULATOR Dent, London; retailed by William Dunstall, Gravesend. Circa 1855 The 10in. diam. silvered regulator dial of typical layout with blued steel hands and signed in the center William Dunstall Gravesend , the movement with massive rectangular plates secured by five robust pillars with blued steel securing screws at the front plate, the wheel train end-capped throughout and with six crossings, Harrison's maintaining power, Vulliamy-type jewelled deadbeat escapement with adjustment to the crutchpiece for the steel-rod pendulum suspended from an independant brass bracket secured to the backboard, the mercury jar within a steel frame with foliate engraved gilt decoration around the jar and to the weight tray, the pully wheel with six crossings and brass-cased weight, the movement itself secured with milled steel and brass bolts through an iron backboard bracket, the well proportioned case with glazed sides and foliate-carved apron beneath the dial, velvet-lined door, panelled mahogany backboard, foliate carved and gadrooned moulding to the double-footed plinth with a fielded rectangular panel 5ft. 7in. (175cm.) high
AN EARLY VICTORIAN MINIATURE LONGCASE REGULATOR Dent, London; retailed by William Dunstall, Gravesend. Circa 1855 The 10in. diam. silvered regulator dial of typical layout with blued steel hands and signed in the center William Dunstall Gravesend , the movement with massive rectangular plates secured by five robust pillars with blued steel securing screws at the front plate, the wheel train end-capped throughout and with six crossings, Harrison's maintaining power, Vulliamy-type jewelled deadbeat escapement with adjustment to the crutchpiece for the steel-rod pendulum suspended from an independant brass bracket secured to the backboard, the mercury jar within a steel frame with foliate engraved gilt decoration around the jar and to the weight tray, the pully wheel with six crossings and brass-cased weight, the movement itself secured with milled steel and brass bolts through an iron backboard bracket, the well proportioned case with glazed sides and foliate-carved apron beneath the dial, velvet-lined door, panelled mahogany backboard, foliate carved and gadrooned moulding to the double-footed plinth with a fielded rectangular panel 5ft. 7in. (175cm.) high
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