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 497
eath breakes the glase,So runes this water out. In larger characters is the ad-monition, Memento Mory. Very possibly the doors ofsuch clocks were engraved tosuit the tastes of purchasers.There are no particulars obtain-able as to the early historyof this example. I remember seeing another large… … Fig. 632.—Large Lantern Clock, byThomas Knifton. The Progression of English Domestic Clocks 481 in three upright bars. It required a great fall of the driving weightsto go thirty hours, as each of the main wheels made one rotationper hour. The original vertical escapement, as usual, had beenremoved…
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