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c.1870 English Arabesque Frame Skeleton Regulator by Evans.
English
Inv. #: e98
Maker: Evans of Handsworth.
Circa: 1870
Size: 18" high
on request
CaseThe finely cut gilt-bronze Arabesque frame has 7 screwed pillars and stands on a marble base.DialThe engraved silvered regulator formatted chapters have an hour dial with Roman numerals, Arabic numbers for the minutes and seconds and blued steel hands.MovementThe eight-day single fusee gear train has exquisite 6-spoke wheels with screwed collets, maintaining power, a pivoted detent escapement and a compensating pendulum suspended by a spring and constructed of brass, steel and zinc. As a result of the escapement the clock beats seconds instead of the typical half-seconds normally dictated by the pendulum length.Ref:Christies, New York, 2005, Lot 42.
Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, pp229-230.
Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, p.28.NotesThis piece is the only known skeleton regulator with this frame style and dial layout.
Provenence:
Dr. SP Lehv Collection
Sundial Farm
R.O. Schmitt
Private CT Collector.
