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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 626

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r, but the basket or pot in thefirst is in the latter discarded for a mask, and from this period headsor masks seem to have been incorporated with most of the designsso long as the pierced cocks lasted. Curiously enough, the streamersat the sides of the basket, which look appropriate, are… … Fig. 834.—Examples of early pierced and engraved Watch Cocks. No. 3, with a jewelled centre and a representation of a lion in acage, dates from about 1770, and No. 4, with the mihtary embJems,from 1780. With few exceptions, French and Dutch manufacturers used abridge instead of a cock. No. 5, a…

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