Rare & unusual Black Forest clocks / Justin J. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Edition: [1st edition]Description: 304 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780764340918
  • 0764340913
Other title:
  • Rare and unusual Black Forest clocks [Cover title]
  • Black Forest clocks
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Early Black Forest clockmaking -- The cuckoo clock -- Black Forest clocks with automata -- Black Forest musical clocks -- Complicated clocks -- Small Black Forest clocks -- From workbench to market : "peddlers" & "packers."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-300) and index.

Early Black Forest clockmaking -- The cuckoo clock -- Black Forest clocks with automata -- Black Forest musical clocks -- Complicated clocks -- Small Black Forest clocks -- From workbench to market : "peddlers" & "packers."

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History of clockmaking in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) region of Germany, focussing on the preindustrial period from 1700 to 1900. Richly illustrated (over 1000 colar images) including 375 images of historic clockmodels in the numerous reproduced historic catalogs of Beha, Wehrle and Hettich. Index.

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