Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
Baroque-style Walnut Thirty-day Floor Regulator, Austria, c. 1880, dial with applied silvered Arabic numeral chapter ring, foliate engraved dial center with matching engraving on weight and pendulum bob, carved headpiece, applied carvings at each corner of hood, waist and base, glazed waist door, raised base panel with applied carving, thirty-day time-only movement with maintaining power, deadbeat escapement, and crutch beat adjustment, ht. 94 in.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
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AustriaJonathan Dowling
Director, Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
508-970-3131
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
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