Antique Blunt and Nichols Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 4/26/2003
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Catalog Description:

C.1880, Blunt and Nichols, New York, Astro regulator from the Pennsylvania Railroad station at 35th and Market Sts, Philadelphia. See detailed repair label from Wm. Gibbons, Philadelphia, who serviced the clock in 1942, and who indicates on the subject line "Penna Railroad", and the correct address following. This has a timepiece movement made to the highest standards, with full dust covers, 5 massive pillars, sapphire pallets, jeweled escape arbor, end shake adjustment, etc. There is a friction reducing roller on the crutch where it enters the rod of the mercury pendulum. All hubs are swaged onto their arbors and the wheels screwed to the hubs. The minute hand is counter balanced. There is an extra wheel on the escape arbor that indicates it may have served as a master clock at one time. The well made mahogany case is made to high standards, and with a glazed door and carved crest. The case was original mounted directly to the wall in the station, and there are large holes in the heavy backboard for that purpose. Later, the clock was moved from the wall, and an additional board was added to the rear of the case, covering those holes. Certainly an unusual piece of Railway Horology. Height 78 inches

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