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An English floor standing…
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Melbourne
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21-Jul-2024
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An English floor standing mahogany case regulator, circa 1850, with Australian provenance, the arched case with a long glazed door above a tapering panelled base, a minute ring and subsidiaries for seconds and Roman hours to the silvered dial, the deadbeat escapement with maintaining power, weight driven with a mercury jar compensative pendulum, 210 cm high, 63 cm wide, 39 cm deep. Provenance: Lot 106, The Melbourne Clock Museum sale, Bonhams & Goodman, 29 April 2008, Melbourne, This clock reputedly featured in the window display of Thomas Gaunt, jewellers of Bourke Street Melbourne, from about 1850 and was the timepiece by which Melbournians set their pocket watches as they walked past.
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Unclassified