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722: E. Howard & Company No. 23 Astronomical Clock, BosE. Howard & Company No. 23 Astronomical Clock, Boston, c. 1860, the walnut drum head case with carved decoration below dial opening, glazed hood door hinged at 12 o clock position, glazed waist door, side lites, mirrored backboard, recessed panel in the base on iron pad feet for attachment to the floor, 16-inch dia. silvered brass astro dial engraved E. Howard & Company, Boston, three original blued steel hands, No. 3 eight-day duration, jeweled and damascened plate movement, Geneva stop and dead-beat escapement enclosed in brass dust cover, temperature compensating pendulum with two faceted glass jars, powered by a brass-cased weight, ht. 84 1/2 in.Note: An 1874 E. Howard catalogue describes these timekeepers as Astronomical Clocks for Observatories, Regulators for Watchmakers Use and for Railway Depots ; further it states it has four holes and the pallets jewelled, and a mercurial pendulum thoroughly adjusted to heat and cold, which enables us to detect the variation of one-hundredth of a second per day. Condition ReportCondition: Mirrored backboard cracked in the lower section, one 4-inch section gone on upper portion of backboard; lacking a beat scale and fretted holder, probably first surface, iron front feet appear to be an original means of attaching the clock to the floor for better time keeping, brass cased weight appears period, lacking two thumb screws on object right movement dust cover, suspension spri ...