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 164
on of cockle-shells. In the South Kensington Museum is aFrench watch resembling a pelican, and a diminutive timekeeperin the Mainwaring collection is concealed in one of two enamelledcherries with stalks connected. Portable Timckecpcvi^. 149 Memento Mori watches in the form of a Latin cross, and… … Fig. 159. Fig. 160. cruciform watches were probably devised b^^^rmecides, a watch-maker of Paris, who flourished between 1530 and 1550, and whosename appears on several early specimens. They appear to havebeen worn, generally, on the breast,and are often spoken of as pectoralcross watches. Of three…
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