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 479
ating from about 1780, which is at the SouthKensington Museum. The boys supporting the globe are of bronze.The moving band contains two sets of numerals painted blue onenamelled plaques ; the lower set represents the hours counted twicefrom I. to XII., and the upper set each fifteen minutes. The… … Fig. 611, -Revolving Band Timekeeper,about 1780. French Clocks and Cases in the French Style 463 its course round the earth becomes a universal time-teller. AtNether Swell Manor is a somewhat similar structure standing on anornamental base and surmounted by a pair of love-birds. Mr. George H. Gabb…
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