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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 109

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The silver work of the case bears the mark of Elias Lenker, ofNuremberg, who died in 1591. Fig. 87 is a very elaborate clock with eleven dials and automata. 92 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers The case is decorated with many beautiful plaques of basse taille enamelupon silver. It is… … Fig. 91.—Sixteenth-Century Hexagonal Clock. figures representing an Indian king hunting with elephants. Themakers name is unknown, but the clock was already in the collectionof the Elector of Saxony in 1587. There is as well a curious clock which has upon it the figure of aman leading a dancing…

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