The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 430
through which is seen the bob pen-dulum and the back plate richly chased and en-graved with the name Charles Gretton, London,which also appears on the dial over the hour circle.Charles Gretton was admitted as a member of theClockmakers Company of London in 1671, and weknow that he was living in… … Fig. 105THE TABLE SHOWN IN FIG. 104, WITH TOP TURNED UP CLOCKS 241 weights assume an entirely new role as articles ofhousehold furniture. It is believed by those whohave studied the matter carefully that clocks did notbegin to be inclosed in tall cases till after the adop-tion of the long pendulum,…
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