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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 212

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nd artistic work of the first quarter of the nineteenthcentury, is shown in Fig. 286. It bears the hall mark for 1813, andis engraved Markwick Markham, Borrell, London, a form ofsignature induced doubtless by the regulations applied to watchesimported into Turkey, for the dial is marked with… … Fig. 284.—Marat. Fig. 2S5.—Napoleon. of which there are three. The outer one, instead of having a flatsurface Avhere the halves meet, is scalloped all round, but stillforming a well-fitting junction by no means easy to attain. Thiscase is enamelled, with a glass in the back, through which a…

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