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'With the aid of line drawings and over 50 photographs, the author describes the perfecting of the movements and the elaboration of cases, hoods, and dials that took place in 18th and 19th-century America.'
ANTIQUE AMERICAN CLOCKS & WATCHES, by Richard Thomson, D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, 1968.
In this book, 'the author traces the history of timekeeping in America, with a good look at its European, particularly, English background. The early American clockmakers, many of them trained by English masters, contributed refinement of accuracy to the art. An innovation was the use of inexpensive raw materials, which culminates in the mass production of wooden movements complete with dials and hands that could be mounted or cased as desired by the buyer. Many manufacturers brought these movements and cased and sold them under their own names.
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' This most informative book covers by chapter: The Beginnings of Timekeeping; Our English Heritage; Pennsylvania Clockmaking; New England clockmaking – the Boston School; Connecticut Clockmaking – Yankee Clocks; The Early American Watchmakers; The Waltham Story; the Watch Factories; and Index. The schools of clock and watch-making include such names as Stretch, Rittenhouse, Howard, Villard, Terry, and Thomas. The author 'includes valuable lists of dates and serial and production numbers to be found on the backs of timepieces from the important makers of the latter half of the nineteenth century.' There’s a wealth of information in this invaluable text.
6.3 in. x 9.2 in. hardback with dust cover in very good condition. 192 pages.
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