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 598
bout 1730.Turkish hour-numerals. Subsidiary dials on the left and right are respectively Strike,Not Strike, and Chime, Not Chime. Another handsome domed clock, designed for the Eastern markets,having Turkish hour-numerals, and nearly a century later, is shown The Progression of English Domestic… … Fig. 793.—Clock, by Henry Borrell, about 1810.Turkish hour-numerals. disc contains the following list of tunes : St. James Minuet,Handels Gavotte, A Hunting we will Go, Haymakers Dance.George and John Prior were celebrated for clocks of this character,which are often taken to be older than they…
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