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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 215

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Fig. 290.—A credit to English mechanical and artistic work of the period. but the particular attraction is the beautiful gold cases, of which thereare three. The outer one, instead of having a fiat surface where thehalves meet, is scalloped all round, but still forming a well-fittingjunction by no… … Fig. 291.—A Gold Enamelled Plaque,finely painted over the balance. glass in the back, through which a very choice bit of floral enamelpainting is to be seen. The back of the two cases are so well fittedtogether that it requires minute scrutiny to detect that the enamelledcentre is not part of the…

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