Morse, Frances Clary · New York, the MacMillan Co. · leaf 353
Clocks 327 are very beautiful scroll feet, turning back. Theupper part stands upon ogee feet, and can be liftedoff. The glass door is painted so that it forms aframe for the dial. Mr, Howard, the founder of the … Illus. 273. —Willard Clocks, 1800-1815. Howard Watch Company, has told me that theWillards invented this style of clock, as well asthe style known as the banjo clock. Mr. Howardis now eighty-nine years old, and learned the clock-makers trade, when a boy, in the shop of AaronWillard, Jr. I have not…
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