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An English mahogany longcase striking domestic regulator, first quarter 20th century
The hood with stepped top above dentil cornices, with fluted columns with Doric capitals to the recessed front angles and carved sound fret panels to the sides, the front door with bevelled glass panel and flanked by fluted sides, on stepped plinth with recessed front panel, the arched silvered dial with outside hours and minutes and subsidiary seconds, signed in the centre with triangular trademark DENT and 61. STRAND & 4. ROYAL EXCHANGE LONDON NO. 53073, the four pillar movement with Vulliamy type deadbeat escapement, Harrison's maintaining power, wheels with four crossings, strike on gong mounted on the backboard, wood rod pendulum with zinc cylinder bob and plain rating nut, swinging against silvered beatscale to the backboard; with two brass weights
76¾in. (195cm.) high
The hood with stepped top above dentil cornices, with fluted columns with Doric capitals to the recessed front angles and carved sound fret panels to the sides, the front door with bevelled glass panel and flanked by fluted sides, on stepped plinth with recessed front panel, the arched silvered dial with outside hours and minutes and subsidiary seconds, signed in the centre with triangular trademark DENT and 61. STRAND & 4. ROYAL EXCHANGE LONDON NO. 53073, the four pillar movement with Vulliamy type deadbeat escapement, Harrison's maintaining power, wheels with four crossings, strike on gong mounted on the backboard, wood rod pendulum with zinc cylinder bob and plain rating nut, swinging against silvered beatscale to the backboard; with two brass weights
76¾in. (195cm.) high