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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 111

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arranged in stories, the watch partbeing at the bottom and the striking work above. The six doors orpanels between the fluted columns are of steel damascened witharabesques of elegant design. In the arched centre of one of thepanels is the dial with a band of blue steel for indicating the hoursof… … Fig. 92.—Curious Table Clock, Early Sixteenth-Centur}^ is supported at the angles by six caryatides, and in the centre of eachpanel is a medallion with the head of a Roman emperor or warriorsculptured in high relief and surrounded by a gilt border. A clocksimilar to the engraving, but surmounted by…

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