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MINIATURE 
Pi: ft Hi PIANO 
is the ideal instrument for entertaining your 
house guests. 
Occupying but little space —only four feet, 
two inches high—beautifully designed—having 
an exquisite tone—and an instrument of highest 
quality in every resped:, the UNCiniature fills an 
important niche in the appointments of the home, 
apartment or summer cottage. 
Those “week-end” guests who cannot play 
the piano can entertain themselves singing,danc¬ 
ing, to the music of the UMiniature —so simple 
is it to operate. 
Even if you already own a piano—your home 
needs a zJ\Iiniature, too, and its price is so mod¬ 
erate you can well afford it. 
Ufear-by is a Story & Clark dealer who will gladly 
show you the several styles of Story & Clark pianos and player pianos , and from 
whom you can purchase one on terms within your income . 
Instruments of finest quality since 1357 
'The Story & Clark Piano Company 
General Offices 315-317 South UJabash 'Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 
P» P3, 
We’ll be very glad to send you a copy of our beautiful little book, “How You Can 
Tell the Difference in Pianos,” if you are a prospective purchaser. 
Story & Clark Piano Company, Dept. HG-315-317 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. 
Please send me FREE your book, “How You Can Tell the Difference in Pianos,” 
because I am interested in buying a grand □ An upright □ A player piano □. 
A 17tli Century En¬ 
glish universal ring- 
dial watch by Sisson 
Collecting Old Watches 
{'Continued jrom page 116) 
Harrison (1693-1776) contributed the 
invention of the curb-compensation 
for the hairspring. In connection 
with the mechanical development of 
the watch it may be interesting to 
note that in 1713 the British Govern¬ 
ment offered rewards of £10,000, £15,- 
000 and £20,000 each for timekeepers 
(chronometers) which would determine 
longitude within an error of ten, 
twenty and thirty geographical miles 
respectively. This was accomplished by 
John Harrison and his son in 1761. 
Nicholas Facio introduced jewelled 
bearings in watch movements around 
the beginning of the 18th Century, and 
in the latter part of this century 
Thomas Mudge invented the lever es¬ 
capement for watches, an adaptation 
of the clock dead-beat escapement al¬ 
ready in vogue. In 1770, a Geneva 
watchmaker introduced the well- 
known engine-turning decoration for 
watchcases, devised to offset the ap¬ 
pearance of scratches on plain cases. 
This form of decoration of the repeti¬ 
tion of involved curved lines has main¬ 
tained popularity down through our 
day. Finally, mention may be made of 
repeating watches which came into 
vogue with their invention in England 
during the last quarter of the 17th 
Century, during the reign of James II. 
It was about this time that all sorts of 
ingenious mechanical devices for enter¬ 
tainment began to make their appear¬ 
ance as embellishments to the watch 
dial. 
The reader may well imagine that in 
the course of these several centuries an 
enormous number of watches have been 
produced, in fact an incalculable num¬ 
ber. Fortunately for the collector, 
many of these have survived and it is 
still quite possible to form an interest¬ 
ing collection of “old-fashioned” watch¬ 
es at an outlay that is not prohibi¬ 
tive. Of course, old watches do not 
grow on hazel bushes, nor yet do they 
disport themselves amid the anemones 
of the field! Their ingathering is, of 
necessity, the pastime of metropolitan 
browsings or of foreign travel. It is 
not possible to tell one just where to 
look for old watches, but they do 
find their way to antique shops, curio 
shops and like emporiums, as well as 
frequently turning up in that peren¬ 
nially hopeful field of discovery, the 
pawnshop. 
Gardner Teall 
Name- 
City. 
VI 
State. 
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An early English silver-gilt watch 
clock made in 1600, by Michael 
Notiwen, a London watchmaker 
Limoges enamels are used to dec¬ 
orate this 17th Century English 
watch, by David Ramsey 
