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 99
eter, and 5 in.in height, which was bequeathed to the Society by Mr. Henry Peckitt, 82 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers an apothecary, of Compton Street, Soho, and handed over by hisexecutrix in 1808, It was given to James Ferguson, the astronomerand mechanician, by Mudge, and at the sale of… … Dial of Table Clock by Jacob Zech. From the decoration of the case and dial, it is inferred that theclock was made for Sigismund I., King of Poland, and that he pre-sented it to Bona Sforza, to whom he was married in 1518. Thereare three shields equidistant round the case, which is altogether…
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