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 346
y instead of duplicatingthem, whereby any possible confusion as to whether a particular hourmeant a.m. or p.m. might be avoided, one of the difficulties presentedto the minds of those who attached particular importance to a soundsignal was the impracticability of counting so many strokes as… … Fig. 476.—Miniature Timepiece, by Joseph Knibb. \iscount Ridley has a three-months long-case clock by JosephKnibb, which is inscribed Joseph Knibb, Londini, fecit, along thebottom of the dial, and has the striking arranged in the same way.The case is of ebony. The Wetherfield collection includes…
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