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DONNINGTON PRIORY<br />
244<br />
A late Victorian mahogany domestic hour-striking regulator<br />
Unsigned, late 19th century<br />
The substantial four pillar rack and gong striking movement with<br />
deadbeat escapement, Harrison’s maintaining power and fine beat<br />
adjustment to the wood-rod pendulum crutch mortice, the 12 inch<br />
single sheet silvered brass Roman numeral circular dial with<br />
subsidiary seconds dial to centre Arabic five minutes to outer track<br />
and blued steel hands, the case with shallow cavetto cornice and<br />
brass lined glazed circular aperture flanked by canted angles to the<br />
full-width hood door above rectangular glazed door enclosing<br />
pendulum beat scale flanked by further canted angles to trunk, on<br />
panel outlined plinth base with canted skirt, 188cm (74ins) high.<br />
£1,500-2,000<br />
92 www.dnfa.com tel. +44 (0) 1635 553 553
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