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 476
596, the makers name on the earhest of the seventeenthcentury clocks was, as a rule, inscribed in a straight line along thebottom of the dial, usually in Latin, thus: Eduardus East,Londini, Fecit, and visible only when the hood was raised orremo\ed, or the door of it opened. Later it was engraved… … Fig. 597.—Dial of Clock by Thos. Tompion, 1676—80. Tcnipns fugit, Vigilatc et Orate, Tempiis edax reriiiii, &c. A remarkablyfine month clock by Tompion in a beautifully figured walnut case,dating from about 1705, which belongs to Mr. J. Drummond Robertson,is shown in Fig. 636. In this the name…
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