FRODSHAM & BAKER, LONDON. CIRCA 1860

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A handsome Victorian fusee wall regulator
Frodsham & Baker, London. Circa 1860
The arched case with concave moulded base, 8½ in. silvered regulator dial signed Frodsham & Baker Gracechurch St. with blued steel hands, the movement with rectangular plates secured by four tapered pillars pinned through the front plate and with steel screws in the backplate, inverted train with Graham-type deadbeat escapement, the escape wheel screwed to its collet, the pendulum with foliate engraved gilt decoration and faceted glass mercury jar, maintaining power to the chain fusee
33½ in. (85 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Frodsham & Baker occupied the premises of 31 Gracechurch Street from 1854-1863. Vaudrey Mercer, The Frodshams, A.H.S., 1981, pp.19-20, suggests that Frodsham's partner may have been one Edward Baker previously of 6 Angel Terrace, Pentonville who submitted chronometers for the Greenwich Trials between 1822 and 1834. Mercer's logical reason for believing this Edward Baker was the one and the same is because these particular chronometers were then later sent to Frodsham & Baker for overhaul when necessary (Greenwich Records).

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