A Biedermeier Vienna mahogany Úchluhr' wall regulator timepiece of month duration Frans Mosslinger, Vienna, circa 1840 The single-weight movement with four-wheel train, Harrison's maintaining power, deadbeat escapement, fine beat adjustment to the crutch and wood rod pendulum with large diameter brass-faced lenticular bob, the 6.5 inch circular white enamel Roman numeral dial with blued steel beetle and poker style hands within repeating shell and floral bud cast gilt brass bezel, the rear of the dial inscribed F Mosflinger to the enamel, the movement and dial fitted to the case via four brass posts applied to the flame veneered backboard engaging with corresponding keyhole-shaped apertures to the backplate, the exterior with rounded corners to the simple cavetto moulded cornice above full-height door with square glazed dial aperture above conforming larger aperture within box-edged surrounds flanked by rounded angles, the sides with slender glazed apertures matching the front above inverted cavetto-shaped base, 96cm (37.75ins) high. Frans Mosslinger is recorded in Weijdom Claterbos, F.H. van Viennese Clockmakers and what They left Us as working in Vienna circa 1840.