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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 nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)

Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 104

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century. Nuremberg and Augsburg pursued the manufacture of portabletimekeepers with considerable spirit. The plain square brass towers,round and octagonal boxes, gave place to cases of a much more Portable Timekeepers 87 ornate design when expense was no object. A very choice examplefrom Dubois… … Fig. 86 —Clock in the Historical Museum at Dresden, of Saxony are to be seen in Dresden, part of them in the treasuryt)f the palace and part in the Historical Museum. In the greenvaulted chambers or treasury of the palace is the so-called Venetianastronomical clock, which is, though, really of…

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