LOT 92 A good mid 19th century carved mahogany regulator William Hampson Thompson, Liverpool
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William Hampson Thompson, Liverpool The elaborate carved mahogany case with applied scrolls and ropetwists framing the glazed door, on a panelled base centred by a shield, the 16 inch one-piece signed silvered dial with outer Arabic minute track enclosing the subsidiaries for running seconds and Roman hours, with blued steel hands, the movement with tall shaped plates secured to the seatboard via three heavy brass L-shaped brackets and united by five knopped pillars, all arbors set in screwed end-stops, each wheel of six-crossings with high count pinions terminating in a jewelled deadbeat escapement, the long crutch with micrometer regulation to a (later) gridiron pendulum reading against an engraved silvered beat scale, the weight suspended via a large pulley with engraved centre 2.39m (7ft 10ins) high.
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