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 261
of cat-gut. The plates, posts, and barrelsare of brass, the barrel covers of iron held in by a number of tenonsaround the edge. The hand is driven from the great wheel of thegoing part by a contrate wheel. The escapement is, of course, theverge. The workmanship, unusually fine for the period, is… … Fig. .—Clock by BartholomewNewsam. Records of Early Makers, etc. 247 the construction of the movement, wliich is inscribed BartihiieweNevvsiun. A l;ir<,^e clock watch very possibly by him is illustratedin Chapter III. In vol. Iv. oi Archaologia is illustrated a fine casketby Bartholomew Newsam.…
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