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A REGENCY MAHOGANY LONGCASE REGULATOR
E.B. Foster London
The case with applied beading to the skirted plinth, arched rectangular trunk door flanked by stop-chamfered angles, similar angles to the break-arch hood, the 12 in. circular silvered regulator dial signed E.B. Foster London, finely sculpted blued steel hands, observatory markings to the seconds ring, the movement with shaped plates and six ringed pillars pinned to the front and rivetted at the backplate, deadbeat escapement, maintaining power, all wheels with six crossings, the gilt wood-rod pendulum with calibrated rating nut and unusual bobbin-form rating nut with milled bands
6 ft. 5 in. (195 cm.) high
E.B. Foster London
The case with applied beading to the skirted plinth, arched rectangular trunk door flanked by stop-chamfered angles, similar angles to the break-arch hood, the 12 in. circular silvered regulator dial signed E.B. Foster London, finely sculpted blued steel hands, observatory markings to the seconds ring, the movement with shaped plates and six ringed pillars pinned to the front and rivetted at the backplate, deadbeat escapement, maintaining power, all wheels with six crossings, the gilt wood-rod pendulum with calibrated rating nut and unusual bobbin-form rating nut with milled bands
6 ft. 5 in. (195 cm.) high