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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 174

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. Portable Timekeepers ^57 A pretty star-shaped watch, decorated with enamel and pearls, isshown to two-thirds the actual size in Fig. 180. The miniature watch surrounded by a horn or trumpet (Fig. 181)is engraved to the actual size. Front and back views of a superb specimen in the form of a… … Fig. 186.—Striking or Clock-Watch. is curious to note in eighteenth-century advertisements the referencesto the sellers of them as toymen. Irregular-shaped octagonal watches are met with among theproductions of the latter part of the sixteenth till quite the closeof the seventeenth century. Many…

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