DOI issue:
Nr. 2-4
DOI article:Mieleszkiewicz, Stefan: Vilnius as a production centre of longcase clocks from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18948#0103
1. A dial of a longcase
clock signed:
"Josephus Bergmann
/w/Wilnie
/Roku 1796",
Vilnius, Lietuvos
Nacionalinis Muziejus
(Phot. Stanisław
Stefan Mieleszkiewicz)
Apart from the brass English movement there was another, pillar frame
movement, derived from the Continental tradition, madę of Steel, rarely of
Steel and wood, in which the yertical plates were replaced by pairs of fiat bars
(usually three) inserted in horizontal plates, forming a cage. Upper and lower
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clock signed:
"Josephus Bergmann
/w/Wilnie
/Roku 1796",
Vilnius, Lietuvos
Nacionalinis Muziejus
(Phot. Stanisław
Stefan Mieleszkiewicz)
Apart from the brass English movement there was another, pillar frame
movement, derived from the Continental tradition, madę of Steel, rarely of
Steel and wood, in which the yertical plates were replaced by pairs of fiat bars
(usually three) inserted in horizontal plates, forming a cage. Upper and lower
97