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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 530

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on of Iin;^lisJi Domestic Clocks. 5r5 The receipt was datedApril I o, I 798, themonth in whicli the Actwas repealed. Although the imposi-tion of this obnoxioustax paralyzed the horo-logical trades, it had theeffect of creating onenew kind of timekeeper ;for tavern keepers,anticipating a scarcityof… … Fig. 679. 1797, and by favour of Sir GeorgeBirdwood I am enabled to representin Fig. 684 a handsome one, whichis now at the India Office. It wasformerly at the entrance to theSpecial Assistants Room at theHouse of the East India Companyin Leadenhall Street, and dates fromabout 1740. An Act of…

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