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Stretcher of William and Mary Chair (detail)
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Brass Spandrel of Dial of Clock
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Chapter VII.—The Bracket Clock
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Bracket Clocks by:—
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Sam Watson (Coventry), 1687. Joseph Knibb (Oxon), 1690
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Thomas Loomes (London), 1700. Thomas Johnson (London), 1730
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John Page (Ipswich), 1740. Godfrey Poy (London), 1745
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Johnson (London), 1760. Thomas Hill (London), 1760
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American Clock by Savin & Dyer (Boston), 1780-1800
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Staffordshire Copper Lustre Ware Vase, with painted Clock Dial
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Alexander Cumming (London), 1770. Anonymous, 1800
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Barraud (London), 1805. Strowbridge (Dawlish)
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Biddell (London), 1800. Anonymous (1800-15)
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Ebony Table Clock, decorated with Wedgwood Medallions
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Chapter VIII.—Provincial Clocks
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Copper Token, Leeds Halfpenny, 1793
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Long-case Clock by Gilbert Chippindale (Halifax)
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" " " by John Weatherilt (Liverpool) (1780-85)
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" " " by Thurston Lassell (Liverpool), 1745
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" " " by Henry Higginbotham (Macclesfield)
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Copper Token, Joseph Knibb, Clockmaker in Oxon
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Long-case Clock by Joseph Knibb (Oxon), c. 1690
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" " " Georgian, Spanish mahogany, by Cockey (Warminster)
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Brass Dial of Welsh Clock by Shenkyn Shon (Pontnedd Fechan), 1714
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Iron Dial of Sussex Clock by Beeching (Ashburnham)
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Long-case Clock, with oval dial, by Marston (Salop), 1761
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Dials of Clocks by Marston (Salop) and Thomas Wall (Birmingham)
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Chapter IX.—Scottish and Irish Clocks
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Brass Lantern Clock by Humphry Mills (Edinburgh), 1670
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Long-case Clock by Patrick Gordon (Edinburgh), 1705-15
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Dial of Long Pendulum Clock by Jos. Gibson (Ecclefechan), c. 1750
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Wall Clock, decorated in marquetry, by George Graydon (Dublin), c. 1796
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Musical Clock by George Aicken (Cork), 1770-95
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Regulator Clock, mahogany case, by Sharp (Dublin)
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Chapter X.—A Few Notes on Watches
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Old English Watches (Elizabethan, James I, Cromwellian, and Charles II)
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Calendar Watch (seventeenth century) by Thomas Chamberlaine de Chelmisforde
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CHAPTER I
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Time and its measurement—Day and night—Early mechanism—The domestic clock—The personal clock—Rapid phases of invention—The dawn of science—The great English masters of clockmaking—The several branches of a great art—What to value and what to collect—Hints for beginners.
The dictionary definition of "clock" is interesting. Clock.—A machine for measuring time, marking the time by the position of its hands upon the dial-plate, or by the striking of a hammer on a bell. Probably from old French or from Low Latin, cloca, clocca, a bell. Dutch, klok. German, glocke, a bell.
This is exact as far as it goes, but the thought seizes one, how did it come about that man attempted to measure time? He saw the sunrise and he watched the fading sunset till "Hesperus with the host of heaven came," and the night melted again into the dawn. Nature marked definitely the hours of light and hours of darkness. That was a law over
