DESCRIPTION:
E. Howard & Co., Boston, "No. 60" hanging regulator, the renaissance revival style case with glazed door and sides, the door with applied, stylized Grecian foliate carvings, and simple eight lobe roundels, base with two turned, carved drops flanking a tapered, stepped bracket terminating in a large, shallow cavetto molding with turned and carved drop, the top with arched cornice molding surmounted by a broken pitched pediment with central urn and laurel festoon, and the corners with stylized palmette form acroterion angularium above stylized, flattened volutes, silvered dial signed "E. Howard & Co. Boston, Mass.", blued steel hands, damascened brass week going movement with jewelled pallets, mercury pendulum with four nickel plated steel jars, brass frame, and nickel plated rod, silvered beat scale, brass clad weight, and heavy cast iron bracket attached to the case back, supporting both the pendulum and the movement
CONDITION:
case in an original, darkened finish, with dings, scrapes, and minor losses, two drops loose, lower right carving with door pivot repaired, door with old repair on upper right, bottom molding with finishing nails at corners, case back with scrapes from pendulum, dial with minor patchy tarnish, wooden dial frame loose, missing many glue blocks, hands good, movement very dirty, oily, and with staining, ticking, but needs service badly, beat scale with losses to silver, pendulum rod with oxidation and loss of plating, pendulum frame with tarnish and staining, one jar with losses to plating, weight with minor tarnish and staining
ESTIMATE:
$30000
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$40000
PRICE SOLD:
$18000
CIRCA: 1875
DIMENSIONS: 80in x 27in x 12in
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