Horology, clock, long case regulator, Victorian. Face has three dials, engraved black, one large for minutes with a single large plain pointer (arabic numbers, 5 - 60, increments of 5, all minutes marked individually also) fixed to a central stud, and two other smaller dials, inside the large dial, the upper for seconds (arabic numbers, marked as minutes dial), the lower for hours (marked in Roman numerals, I to XII). Each of the smaller dials has a plain pointer with a crescentic end, and has a central securing screw. All of the pointers appear to be of blued steel. Now separated from the mechanism is a long steel pendulum rod, to the end of which is secured a glass cylinder containing mercury which served as the weight. This has a copper alloy disc fitted to it top and bottom, and out of the side of each disc protrudes a pair of bands, through which pass a pair of steel rods, thereby securing the cylinder to the discs. At the top of the steel rods, their ends sit into cylindrical receivers which are at the ends of the flat head of the weight assembly (with flat left and right sides, flat under side with a central extension, and a pair of concave curves flanking a flat centre at its upper surface). Through the centre of its upper surface is a slot for the flat pendulum rod, which passes through it. At its end is a threaded screw which passes into the centre of a regulating knob, which is in the shape of a cone with truncated top. The knob easily turns on this screw. This is graduated, marked from 0 to 15, and below the marks there is a raised edge. The extension to the underside of upper part of the weight assembly has a pointer sticking out at right angles, the tip of which bears a black mark. The pendulum rod slides upa and down in the slot in the head of the weight assembly, the length of this travel being determined by how much or how little the knob is raised or lowered on the threaded screw. On the pendulom rod, above the head of the weight assembly is a discus shaped fitting through the centre of which passes the pendulum rod, which slided on the rod, and acts as a locking device for the regulating knob when it has been set at a particular setting. This is done by sliding it down to the top of the head of the weight assembly when the knob has been set. The upper end of the pendulum rod has a perforated piece screwed to it, and the top of this piece is split, with a securing screw passing from one side to the other. The case consists of a broad foot of rectangular plan, with rounded upper edge, from which a long rectangular central section rises, via a concave curve. This has a long tightly fitting wooden door with glass in the front, the glass having an arched top. On either side of the arched glass top are carved either lotus or tulip motifs. The door is not fitted for a lock. The head of the case, rectangular in plan, rises from the ccntre of the clock case via a concave curve to a flat ledge. The front edges of the head of the case are chamfered except at top and bottom, and the top of the case is arched. The left, right, and front edges of the top are decorated with gadrooning, and above this at the front there is a crest, consisting of a stiff leaf flanked by a pair of volutes(?). In the face of the case there is a circular glass pane with brass frame, set in the square face of the clock, and this is hinged to the right, on two hinges. The central door is also hinged to the right, on three hinges. Both doors are secured on the left side of the clock by hook and eye fasteners, two for the upper door, and three for the lower. Inside the centre section, visible through the glass door pane, is, at centre, upper, a trapezoidal plate, graduated, for measuring the pendulum swing, and below this, above the bottom of the centre section, is another rectangular brass plate fitted to a wooden 'shelf', for the same purpose. Below this, fitted to the back of the clock case, is a spirit thermometer on its own wooden base. The single cylindrical weight hangs on the left, and there is a subcircular hole in the floor of the