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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 202

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tury, and in many instances the surface of the painting wascovered with a transparent flux, which gave it a glassy appearance. During the first half of the nineteenth century portraits and viewsin small panels attached to the backs of watch cases were popularand of very uneven merit. Most of them… … Vn Fig. 251. Fig. 250 shows the back of a watch by Henry Harper, London, ofa style corresponding to 1670. The painting is probably Dutch, andof a later date. The beautiful painting set in an engraved gold border shown inFig. 251 encloses a watch signed Honore I^ieutand, Marseille. Two views of a…

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