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558 black-and-white photographs, in-depth captions, and a rich narrative combine to make this early out-of-print book an invaluable resource reference work.
A TREASURY OF AMERICAN CLOCKS by Brooks Palmer, Collier MacMillan Ltd. NY 1967/1975.
This lavishly illustrated text contains more than 550 black-and-white photographs, which picture clocks, faces, and clock movements. This study constitutes a chronological pictorial history, with complete descriptive captions, covering such clocks as grandfather and grandmother, tower, beehive, acorn, cottage, OG, banjo, lyre, gallery, pillar and scroll, shelf, steeple, novelty, and many others. The examples represented were chosen as the most typical and interesting among the thousands the author viewed and studied. This book also includes a detailed List of Makers.  
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This is one of the most complete pictorial reference books available on the subject of American clocks, which makes it an invaluable resource reference book for the collector, dealer, or historian of American clocks.
7.7 in. x 10.4 in. hardback book with dust cover in protective plastic sleeve in very good condition. 371 pages.
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