Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 102
k of Louis David, and dates from the middle of thesixteenth century. Nuremberg and Augsburg pursued the manufacture of portabletimekeepers with considerable spirit. The plain square brass towers, Portable Timekeepers. 87 round and octagonal boxes, gave place to cases of a much moreornate design… … Several good representative specimens belonging to the King ofSaxony are to be seen in Dresden, part of them in the treasury ofthe palace and part in the Historical Museum. In the green vaultedchambers or treasury of the palace is the so-called Venetian astro-nomical clock, which is, though, really…
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