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Long-case clock; year-going with calendar and equation dial in door of the trunk; long hand on this dial makes one revolution a year and indicates the month and date smaller hand moves to and fro in an arc of about 180 degrees and indicates the equation of time; small dials above the chapter-ring are for the day of the week and regulation; walnut case with turned columns and moulded borders to domed hood; door with moulded brass bands and mounts to corners chased with grotesque masks, foliage and strapwork and key-hole escutcheon chased with mask; rectangular base with brass scroll feet and overlaid with brass repoussé plaques decorated with winged masks, strapwork, entwined snakes and swags of fruit; domed hood surmounted by three spherical and obelisk finials. TRAIN-COUNT. Gt wheel 96 2nd wheel 96/12 3rd wheel 92/10 Centre wheel 60/10 5th wheel 56/8 Escape wheel 30/8 This view is equation cam.
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