ADAM THOMSON, LONDON. MID 19TH CENTURY

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A Victorian brass skeleton mantel regulator with full calendar and moonphase
Adam Thomson, London. Mid 19th century
With silvered moulded bezel to a silvered engraved Roman and Arabic dial, with blued steel hands and sweep seconds hand, moonphase aperture below XII with blued steel and silvered moon, recessed subsidiary discs for day of week and date, the eight day movement with four ring turned and tapering front and back screwed pillars joining unusually shaped plates, single chain fusee with pin wheel escapement, maintaining power, supported on a double scroll frame above a (probably later) mahogany plinth, formerly under glass dome; steel rod pendulum with calibrated rating nut
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1987, p.232, fig.a-b.
Roberts illustrates a Thomson (working 1839-1857) skeleton regulator with a dial format of closely related design. It differs from that of the present clock in the design of the hands and moon aperture and in the position of the winding hole.

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