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This most unusual wall regulator is possibly one of only two known to exist, the other being preserved in the Hague Museum.
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ATTRIBUTED TO F. C. DE JONG, AMSTERDAM; CIRCA 1863
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A Dutch oak early electric wall regulator
Attributed to F. C. De Jong, Amsterdam; circa 1863
The case with large oak backboard receiving two glazed sections each with doors, the silvered dial on a wooden bracket with the 'scape wheel and pendulum suspension bracket above, the mid section backboard bracket with twin coils, the massive brass and steel grid-iron pendulum on knife-edge type suspension and with spring loaded pallet secured to the central grid-iron rod passing over the detent above the two coils
49 ins. 125 cm. high
Attributed to F. C. De Jong, Amsterdam; circa 1863
The case with large oak backboard receiving two glazed sections each with doors, the silvered dial on a wooden bracket with the 'scape wheel and pendulum suspension bracket above, the mid section backboard bracket with twin coils, the massive brass and steel grid-iron pendulum on knife-edge type suspension and with spring loaded pallet secured to the central grid-iron rod passing over the detent above the two coils
49 ins. 125 cm. high