This beautiful bronze/coppery top plate is from a property in Mayfair, London.
I was contacted by Chris Duke of CD Property Care about repair and service to the internals of a Sceptre No 21.
The internals were sent to me and I was surprised to find that the Sceptre was different to the Sceptres I have in stock as can be seen below (Chris's Sceptre is on the right). Both the carriage/yoke differs and the piston is a more 'squat' version (This may be because Chris's is the single action variant).
I was contacted by Chris Duke of CD Property Care about repair and service to the internals of a Sceptre No 21.
The internals were sent to me and I was surprised to find that the Sceptre was different to the Sceptres I have in stock as can be seen below (Chris's Sceptre is on the right). Both the carriage/yoke differs and the piston is a more 'squat' version (This may be because Chris's is the single action variant).
We got around this by swapping the springs from our Sceptre and putting them on the yoke of Chris's Sceptre, we were also sent a pin that was longer than the one in ours but fortunately we had one from elsewhere that we were able to supply.
Readers may be interested to note the similarities between our Sceptre, Chris's Sceptre the Gibbons we repaired below from a property in Harrow (already featured in a previous post) and beneath that what appears to be a heavy duty Sceptre from a recent enquiry concerning Free Mason's Hall, headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England (which I hope to have the good fortune to be able to feature in a future blog post).
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