An English early Victorian longcase regulator. The attractive case with glazed door is veneered with both mahogany and rosewood. Full reeded hood columns with brass capitals and half-reeded trunk columns surmounted with brass corinthian caps complete the decoration. Eight-day-duration, time-only movement with chamfered plates. Dead beat escapement and maintaining power.

The round, silvered brass dial, with subsidiary seconds and hour rings, is engraved with the inscription:

"Regulator"

Maker unknown. Circa 1850. The exceptional quality of this movement suggests it was constructed by one of three makers: Thwaites & Reed, Elliotts, or Smith's of Clerkenwell.

$18,500

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