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 469
Fig. 58S.—The fret of Thomas Pace at the Crown. arched top with a figure of Time and the motto Tempus fugit.There is an alarum, but no other striking work. It has a longpendulum swinging in the open air below the bracket, where also … Fig. 589.—Dolphin fret. hangs the cord from which the dri\ing weight depends. The dateof its production would be, I should think, about 1720. Mr. W. T.Harkness has one by Payne, Hadleigh, of the same period, thehood of which is mahogany. The Pro<^icssioii of EiiglisJi Domestic Clocks. 455 An…
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