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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 481

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Later examples down to the end of the eighteenth century are givenon succeeding pages. Dials of brass, silvered all over, without a. separate ring for the … hour and minute circles, and in which the primitive practice ofengraving instead of matting the central space was reverted to,were introduced about 1750. Many of these dials were characterisedby really excellent engraving. Thomas Bewick, the celebrated The Pro<^nLssio!i of Eni^IisJi Doiiicsiic…

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