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 35
ng roofs and made either of woodor lead and decorated in colours. Froissart, who had an affection for clocks, speaks of one whichexisted at Courtray prior to 1370 as the largest which had then been c 2 20 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. made. It was brought from thence with other spoils of… … Fig. 16.—Jacquemarts at Dijon. Fig. 17.—Jack the Smiter,Southwold Church. were a bell and the figures of a man and woman, one on each side,which struck the hours, as shown in Fig. 16. To the present daythese automata are locally called/czr(///f/;/rtr/5, and G. Peignot, authorof a dissertation on…
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