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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 132

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Fig. 113.—Splendid example of its kind, probably made by ConradFreizer, earlv Seventeenth-Century. Portable Timekeepers 115 regard seems to have been more generally paid to the effectivenessof the exterior as a whole rather than to its fitness and convenience … Fig. 114.—Peculiar Early-Seventeenth-Century StrikingClock, similar one at the British Museum. for showing the hour. Some instances of the more or less grotesqueconceptions then in favour are appended, most of them being fromthe Schloss collection. ii6 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Fig.…

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