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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 127

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FiG; 107.—Astronomical Clock; balance rather large in diameter. Over the balance is a straightspring, one end of which is fixed to the plate, the free end beingembraced by two pins standing up from the rim of the balance, andso acting as a controller. no Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers … Fig. 108.—Gilt Metal Astronomical Clock. Portable Timekeepers III On the bottom of the clock is engraved :— A.D. 1634. Adam Klyzovicz Kiakovie Fecit Polonvs. Two views of an exceedingly pretty early seventeenth-centuryalarm table clock of small size from the Schloss collection are givenin Figs. 105…

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