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 461
kind are still knownas bob pendulums, in contradistinction to the longer variety whichat a later period, and with the anchor escapement, vibrated in amuch smaller arc. The movement was enclosed at the back with a brass plate ; atthe front with the dial, also of brass, with silvered hour band… … Fig. 578.— Great Chamber Clock, 1623. In the earliest of these clocks the dials were, as a rule, thickly gilt;the hour circles narrow and the numerals stumpy, the front one ofthe frets surrounding the bell at top usually having a shield for the The Proi^rcsdon of Englisli Domestic Clocks. 447 crest…
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