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 533
94, was alsoa favourite device for the arch of the dial. In connection with the lunar record the time of high water atsome particular place was popular in certain districts between 1730and 1780. For people residing near a tidal river, and who desired to 5i6 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers… … Fig. 687.—Simpson, Wigton, about 1775. Has centre seconds and day-of-the-month hands, and shows in the arch age and phases of the moon and timeof high water, probably at Parton, near Whitehaven. Around the top of the arched space, besides the usual figures for themoons age would be a row of Roman…
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