A Regency mahogany longcase regulator

A Regency mahogany longcase regulator, unsigned, circa 1825

The eight-day four double-screwed pillar movement with thick plates measuring 7.25 by 5.5 inches enclosing wheel train with Harrisons maintaining power and deadbeat escapement incorporating jewelled pallets, regulated by mercury twin-jar compensated seconds pendulum incorporating wide jaw suspension and hanging from an iron bracket screwed to the case backboard, the 12 inch circular silvered brass dial with subsidiary seconds over Roman numeral hour dials to centre within outer Arabic minute track, with blued steel hands, the figured mahogany case with slender cavetto cornice and hood door applied with inset canted silvered circular bezel flanked by canted angles, the sides with blind panels, the trunk with slender cavetto throat over conforming canted angles flanking rectangular glazed door enclosing flame-figured veneered interior, on shaped panel outline plinth base with single skirt, 185cm (72.5ins) high.