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 231
cases are troublesome, and, after being endured fortwo centuries or so, they gave place gradually to the more compactmodern styles, with ornament of a (iifferent character. A series of wavy curves cut into the material and known as Engine turning, wliich is said to have been introduced as a…
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