G. E. FRODSHAM No.G154: A fine two-day marine chronometer, the silvered dial signed and numbered G. E. Frodsham, 31 Gracechurch Street, London G154, Roman hour chapters, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, cut bi-metallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, brass bowl and gimbal in brass-bound three-tier rosewood box, rectangular plaque to front of centre section inscribed G.E.Frodsham, London G154, external brass drop handles, outer guard box

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G. E. FRODSHAM No.G154: A fine two-day marine chronometer, the silvered dial signed and numbered G. E. Frodsham, 31 Gracechurch Street, London G154, Roman hour chapters, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent with jewelled pallet, cut bi-metallic balance, circular heat compensation weights, blued steel helical balance spring, brass bowl and gimbal in brass-bound three-tier rosewood box, rectangular plaque to front of centre section inscribed G.E.Frodsham, London G154, external brass drop handles, outer guard box
Dial diameter: 97mm
Box: 175mm square

Lot Essay

George Edward Frosdsham is recorded at 31 Gracechurch Street, London EC 1864-1901. This chronometer would have been made circa 1865

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