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A good small early 19th century mahogany domestic regulator Barraud's, Cornhill, London, number 578
8 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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A good small early 19th century mahogany domestic regulator
Barraud's, Cornhill, London, number 578
The arched hood with three ball finials over canted front angles flanked by brass fish-scale sound frets to the sides and lower quadrants, over a long arched trunk door of flame veneer and a matching base with applied re-entrant moulded panel on a stepped bracket, the 12 inch restored circular Roman dial with outer minute track and large subsidiary seconds dial, the twin train weight driven movement with five knopped pillars and rack strike on a bell, unusually with trip repeat facility, the deadbeat escapement to a wooden-rod pendulum with heavy brass bob and engraved rating nut 189cms ( 6ft 2ins) without finial high.
The arched hood with three ball finials over canted front angles flanked by brass fish-scale sound frets to the sides and lower quadrants, over a long arched trunk door of flame veneer and a matching base with applied re-entrant moulded panel on a stepped bracket, the 12 inch restored circular Roman dial with outer minute track and large subsidiary seconds dial, the twin train weight driven movement with five knopped pillars and rack strike on a bell, unusually with trip repeat facility, the deadbeat escapement to a wooden-rod pendulum with heavy brass bob and engraved rating nut 189cms ( 6ft 2ins) without finial high.
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Provenance:
In the early 20th century in the collection of Edward Dannreuther, concert pianist and Professor at the Royal College of Music.