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Figure 4. Female dial painter. Sketch by Lucian Reich, lithography
by Johann Nepomuk Heinemann. Supplement to an 1855 autobiograp |
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Figure 5. In 1896, when most of the small workshops were gone,
magazine illustrations depicted the good old days. Illustration Fritz Reiss. |
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Figure 6. Shield production. In the background, a woman painting.
Wood engraving. Georg Heine, ca.1905. |
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Figure 7. Victoria Duffner, wife of a well-known producer of
musical clocks, at her workplace (but wearing her best clothing). In front
of her is a barrel that has to be pinned. Oil painting, about 1870.
Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen. |
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Figure 8. Anna Elisabetha, second wife of Lorenz Bob, a Swiss
beauty who later emigrated to America. Oil painting by E. Hummel, 1859.
Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen. |
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Figure 9. Eight-day clock. Brass wheels on wooden arbors. Striking
on the hour. Abundant ornamentation. The name on the dial is the clock
merchant’s in Chartres, France. Signed Nothburga Eschle, ca. 1840. |
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deutschen Wirtschaft (eds.). Die Deutsche Uhrenindustrie. Berlin, 1930.
Kahlert, Helmut, Richard Mühe, and Magdalena Zeller. A Brief History of
the Black Forest Clock. Furtwangen: Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, 2004.
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Dr. Helmut Kahlert was a professor of economics at Furtwangen and retired
in 1992. He continues as an advisor to the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen,
and has published several horological books on Black Forest clocks and
wristwatches. He has also written articles for the Bulletin on Black Forest
clockmaking and the American influence on German clocks, as well as the
history of the wristwatch.
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Figure 10. Signature of Nothburga Eschle on back plate and shield.
There is also another known clock of hers. Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen. |
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