Lot 83
  • 83

An Empire-style brass-mounted mahogany longcase regulator, John Moore, London, late 19th Century

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • John Moore
  • 205cm. 6ft. 8½in. high
6¾-inch silvered dial signed John Moore, London. No. 37, the outer minute ring enclosing subsidiary hours and seconds dials, the fusee and chain movement with dead beat escapement, maintaining power and separately suspended wood rod pendulum with lenticular bob and calibrated rating nut, the glazed obelisk case with brass-lined architectural pediment surmounted by a brass globe on a decorated socle, well-figured back board, raised on a brass-moulded panelled plinth applied with a mount of an eagle within a wreath, brass-mounted bun feet