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 521
r each. The cylindersare each 10 incheslong and i^ inch indiameter. Those not inuse are kept in a drawerin the plinth of the case.The clock has also a full(juarter movement,arranged to strike on sixof the chime bells. The Chevrier clock isin an ebony case, 18inches high, the dial beingyh inches by… … W^ Fig. 670.The chime barrel plays Rigadoonbells. The charming diminutive clock by Josiah Emery, with bracket,shown in Fig. 675, is from the Wetherfield collection. Towards the end of the eighteenth century the popularity of the bell-top case waned, and it was gradually supplanted by threeset…
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