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 91
Fig. 71.—Front cover. discerned the letter N, the Nuremberg work mark. It bears noindication of the makers name, but from the primitive foliot balanceand other features it may safely be classed as not later than mid-sixteenth century work. There is at the Horological Institute a print of a very old… … Fig, 72 or clock-watch, the case of which is enriched with remarkably fine arabesque work, pierced to emit the sound. Three views of it are appended: Figs. 69, 70, 71.The dial has two hour circles,the divisions of the outercircle being marked withRoman, and those of theinner with Egyptian…
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