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 526
s of base metal cases weremade. In 1797 a tax of eightshillings an ounce was leviedon gold articles, which doubt-less would have led to anincreased use of silver gilt andpinchbeck cases, but that Pitt, not content with taxing the cases, at the same time imposed a taxon all persons in respect of the… … Fig. 675.—Josiah Emery, eight-day :pull repeating quarters on sixbells. 112 Old Clocks and JVatchcs and their Makers. and placed in or upon any dwelling house, or any office or buildingthereunto belonging, or any other Building whatever, whether privateor publick, belonging to any person or…
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