A fine regency longcase clock, with an eight day weight driven two train movement with brass bound weights, a heavy lenticular adjustable pendulum suspended from a T bar with an elliptical wooded rod has beat adjustment screws. The hours striking on a heavy blued steel coiled gong. The movement has Harrisons maintaining power with an unusually high teeth count.The fine silvered Roman dial is signed Parkinson & Frodsham, Change Alley. The case is of particularly fine quality with a continuous flame mahogany veneer running up the trunk.This clock is one of only handful of longcases and regulators made by the firm and may well have been a one off commission.William James Frodsham was a member of the Frodsham family one of the most important english clock making dynasties of the last 3 centuries, and as such had close ties to John Harrison and Justin and Benjamin Vulliamy.Established in 1801 The firm of Parkinson & Frodsham were outstanding chronometer makers, supplying the...