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 264
e number of keys used byour grandmothers and grandfathers and by their progenitors, on thedesign and construction of wliich much consideration and labour hadbeen bestowed. M. Paul Garnier, M. Planchon, and Mr. Arthur F. Hillare among the few collectors of such interesting adjuncts, of whicha few… … Figs. 389-397.—Watch Keys. 248 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers setting the hands. Keys of this kind appear to have been verygenerally used from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of theeighteenth century. The first of the lowest row seems to have beenintended as a winder for a table…
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