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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 405

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atterers of Louis XIV. likenedhim to the sun, and it will be noticed that pendulums and otherparts of many clocks produced during the latter part of his reign 390 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. were decorated with the face of Phoebus. But in the closing daysof Louis XIV. the comparatively… … Fig. 507. obtains its effects from the kingdom of shells, but the products ofluxurious vegetation, such as palms and other leaves, were also putunder contribution, blended and twisted to produce a fanciful con-fusion of curves and spirals. To make the eccentricity more marked,designers, borrowing…

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