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 450
, but never, I think,in so elegant a form as the original. Fan-shaped Clocks.—M. Planchon has an engraving of thetutor to Charles, son of Phillippe II. of Spain, on which is shown atimekeeper, the dial being composed of a double fan of white andblack slats which expanded and contracted to suit… … Fig. 564. 436 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. The illustration, Fig. 571, was published some time ago in La Nature.The fan, composed Df thirteen very light slats, is pivoted to abacking covered with velvet, and at six oclock in the morning andin the evening would be wide open as shown, and…
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