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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 172

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rtable Timekeepers. 157 A pretty star-shaped watch, decorated with enamel and pearls, isshown to two-thirds the actual size in Fig. 178. The miniature watch surrounded by a horn or trumpet (Fig. 179)is engraved to the actual size. Front and back views of a superb specimen in the form of abutterfly… … Fig. 184.—Striking or clock-watch. is curious to note in eighteenth-century advertisements the referencesto the sellers of them as toymen. Irregular-shaped octagonal watches are met with among theproductions of the latter part of the sixteenth till quite the closeof the seventeenth century. Many…

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