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Updated: May 19, 2025

"A Handsome new Eight day Clock which shows the Moons Age, Strikes the Quarters on Six very Tunable Bells & is in a Good Japann'd Case in Imitation of Tortoise Shell & Gold." This advertisement of Edmund Entwisle, in the Boston News Letter of November 18, 1742, proves, I think, that they had some very handsome clocks in those days: "A Fine Clock. It goes 8 or 9 days with once winding up.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England