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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 314

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akers. Projecting from the case is a small nib, or pulse piece, called by the French sourdine, or deaf piece, which upon being pressed keeps the hammer olf the bell and re-ceives each blow. It not only enables those who have defective hearing or sight to ascertain the time by touch, but persons… … Fig. 442.—Back of Outer Cover. 2g8 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Graham used stout proportionate-looking bows for his watch casesin place of the thin wiry rings pre\dously in vogue, but by a curiousobliquity EUicott seems to have reverted to the former style. Thedifference in the two…

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