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 451
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… … Fig. 5r,5. Fig. 566. its tail to the velvet, would point to the hour with its tongue. Imme-diately after six oclock the fan suddenly closes, the serpent stillpointing to six, but it would then be the figure on the right-hand sideof the fan. On a continuation of the joint of the fan is a…
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