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 137
odelled. St. John, standing at the left of the cross, holds in his 122 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. hands a chalice, which he raises when the clock strikes the hours.The ball surmounting the structure revolves once in twelve hours,and on it is a band containing the Roman hour numerals,… … Fig. iig. between windings, and strikes on a bell below the plinth. Portionsof the movement can be seen through apertures in chased metalgratings fixed in the front and back panels of the plinth. There isno makers name, but it is probably a French seventeenth centuryproduction. The style and…
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