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Image: Longcase clock movement

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Description: Drawing of cross section of English longcase (grandfather) clock movement from the mid-1800s. It is described as: "The going part of a common regulator, or house-clock of superior character... The movement is that found in long-cased hall clocks..." This is a weight driven, pendulum clock with a one second (1 meter) pendulum, anchor or deadbeat escapement, second hand, and no striking mechanism.
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