Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
Freid. Baumann Thirty-day Floor Regulator, Vienna, Austria, square composite brass dial with engraved center marked Fried. Baumann, Wien, applied spandrels, silvered chapter ring and seconds bit, long duration time-only movement with deadbeat escapement, maintaining power, and crutch beat adjustment, in a flat-top oak case, engaged columns on the hood door, applied carving on the waist door and inset base panel, all on turned bun feet, ht. 85 in.
Estimate $2,000-4,000
Pendulum suspension spring is broken.
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AustriaJonathan Dowling
Director, Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
508-970-3131
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
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