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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 116

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struck on a cap-shaped or cylindrical bell. In the construction of this timekeeper there is not a single screwused. All fastenings are either pins or wedge-shaped keys or rivets. The quaint hexagonal striking and alarm table clock shown inFig. 93 is a mid-sixteenth-century production from the… … Fig. 96.—Octaoonal Clock. and, on the bottom of the case, Saturn for Saturday. A little doorseen on the face immediately to the right of the dial permits theinspection of the fusee in order to estimate the period for winding.The movement is arranged in stories, the striking mechanism belowand the…

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