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 515
scure provincial maker, see Fig. 617. The introduction of cheap American clocks was disastrous to the K K 2 500 Old Clocks and l]^ntchcs and their Makers. old English ones, and between 1850 and i860 thousands of goodserviceable long-case timekeepers were sacrificed, the cases beingchopped up for… … Fig. 662. ordinary chamber clock, were in favour before the advent of thelong-case variety. Of the early types with metal cases, examples have already been■given. During the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginningof the eighteenth centu-ry the square • squat case of wood with afiat top and…
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