A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)

British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 116

An illustration from A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations, 1907, leaf 116 — hem have only an hour-hand, but the minute-hand appears in rare examples in thelast quarter of the century. Ifc may be stated here that theminute-hand was only gradually recognized : in England it wasnot common upon clocks before 1670, and was often omitted byprovincial clockmakers quite late in… … 86 GLOSSAKY associated with the dials of their time-pieces human and animalfigures dominating the whole design, and often moving auto-matically at the striking of the hour ; in the manufacture ofthese clocks we observe the same fanciful turn of mind whichproduced the contemporary cups exhibited in…

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