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A fine Victorian mahogany longcase regulator of small size
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A fine Victorian mahogany longcase regulator of small size

T. COOKE & SONS, LONDON. CIRCA 1840

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A fine Victorian mahogany longcase regulator of small size
T. Cooke & Sons, London. Circa 1840
The diminutive arched case with beaded panel to the plinth, foliate-carved apron beneath the silvered dial of regulator layout and signed T. Cooke & Sons, 31. Southampton St. Strand London, 24-hour ring, all hands of blued steel, the movement with substantial shouldered brass plates with massive double-screwed pillars, wheel train with six crossings, Vulliamy-type deadbeat escapement, the pendulum suspended from a bracket on the backboard - the steel rod terminating in a faceted glass jar with calibrated silvered rating nut and swinging against a calibrated beatscale on the baseboard, with six-spoke brass pulley and brass-cased weight
5ft. 9in. (175cm.) high
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Thomas Cooke, (1807-1868) was born in Yorkshire, the son of an impoverished shoemaker from Allerthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In 1836 he borrowed £100 from his father-in-law and set up a scientific instrument making business in Stonegate near to York Minster. In 1841 he moved to St. Martin-le-Grand where business prospered - in part due to the rapid growth of the railways and the surge in the need for surveying instruments. In 1846 he became involved in turret clock making and by 1860 he had achieved an international reputation making scientific instruments, turret clocks and precision timepieces.