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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 322

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Judging by the Windsor Castle clock, he was in Londonin 1677, and till nearly the end of the century he carried on businessthere. His work was of the highest class, judging from thespecimens I have had the opportunity of examining. A shorttime - ago, Mr. Thomas Peake had a square black case… … Fig. 441. —Clock-watch by Nathaniel Barrow. 3o8 Old Clocks and Watches and tJicir Makers. ornamental design, and on it was the inscription, Joseph Knibb,Londini, fecit. A remarkable clock, formerly the property of the Duke of Sussex,but which now belongs to Mr. Ernest Swanwack, is shown in Fig.…

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