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Robert Adams 'Sceptre' No 21

12/12/2016

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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).
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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.
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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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Comments are always looked forward to and appreciated.
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