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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 104

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TWELVE TINY SCREWS AND SIX JEWEL-PINS. AN ESCAPE-WHEEL. AN ESCAPE-PINION. (Magnified and photographed with the head of a medium-sized pin to show relative size.) THE WONDERS OF A WATCH It is a matter of every-day occurrence for aperson to say to his watchmaker, Here is a … THREE TINY SCREWS HOLDING A SMALL JEWEL.(Greatly magnified.) watch which you sold me ten years ago. It hasgone well till lately, when it has taken to stop-ping without any apparent cause. The people who speak in this way little thinkof the amount of work that a watch has per-formed in this space of…

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