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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 528

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cution, being merely a massof unmeaning curves reproduced in rough castings, not touched bythe chasing tool or graver, but lacquered just as they left the sand.Many of the dials and corners were water gilt. Occasionally, The Progression of English Domestic Clocks 511 on clocks of a high class,… … Fig. 682.—Joseph S^illiamson, about 1720. Eight-day clock ; square of dial,12 in. Lower hour numerals reversed. Day of the week indicated in thearch ; an ilhistration for each day appears through an aperture. be mentioned as two of the earliest. The titles of these are suggestiveof their use. The…

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