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 65
ge) tobe placed in the chamberof Madame. Sir John Paston, inthe course of a letterwritten in the spring of1469, says : I prayeyou speke wt Harcourtoff the Abbeye ffor alytell clokke whyche I sent him by James Gressham to amend andyt ye woll get it off him an it be redy, and send it me, and as… … Fig. 34.—Hans of Jena. Weight Clocks 49 The appended Fig. 35, from the Bibliotheque Xationale at Paris,purports to represent the remains of a fifteenth century chamber clock.It is pretty evident there was originally a bell at the top of the case,and perhaps a hand to indicate the hour. It is not,…
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