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Desk Accessories For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Late Victorian
Traveling Desk Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Traveling desk box from Georgian England. With Italiante metal carrying handle and lock, hand-painted faux bois siding and verdirgis demi-lune accents, the ...
Category
1820s English Early Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Edwardian Silver-Mounted Stationary Box with Matching Victorian Blotter
Located in Montreal, QC
This box has much evident quality. The pierced cover is repousse with scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers and trellis-work about a vacant cartouche. It has a long "piano" hinge and is lined in emerald green watered silk. Serendipitously, we have the matching blotter, the cover identically mounted, lined in crimson watered silk.
The box is Edwardian hall...
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
English Victorian Marble Double Inkwell with Dog
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian yellow marble rectangular double inkwell with dog.
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone, Marble
19th Century Victorian Sterling Silver Gilt Posy Holder
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver posy holder; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
T...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Victorian Silver-Mounted Glass Match Striker, c.1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th century Victorian silver mounted and textured glass match striker. Of round shape, mounted with a plane silver collar. A must for any collector of Tabacconalia or just a...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Bronze Hunting Hound / Dog Inkwell, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A beautifully cast late Victorian inkwell dating to circa 1880 in the form of a handsome hunting dog.
The hinged lid opens to reveal a removable ink chamber.
Excellent conditio...
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1880s Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
English Victorian Papier-Mache and Crystal Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian papier mache floral design oval double inkwell with fluted crystal wells and handles.
Category
20th Century British Victorian Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
2-Piece French Victorian Bronze Pheasant Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
French Victorian bronze inkwell of standing pheasant with roll blotter. (priced as set).
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
French Victorian Inkwell with Bronze Figures
Located in New York, NY
French Victorian bronze inkwell of standing pheasant with roll blotter. (priced as set).
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Stunning Light Nutwood Antique Cigar Box with Perfect Working Lock and Key
Located in Lisse, NL
Great quality and superb condition antique box for presenting your finest cigars.
This beautifully designed and perfectly handcrafted cigar box is another one of our recent finds and this antique will make a great gift for yourself or for a cigar smoking friend or loved one. All handcrafted in the late 1800s this box is much better than anything you will be able to buy in today's stores. The design, its age and its practicality are one thing, but what makes this antique work of beauty really stand out is the honey colored, light nutwood exterior and interior. It is in superb condition and an absolute joy to look at. If you like it in our photos then you will love it in real life, because the patina is much better looking and warmer than in any of our photos. You can, again, take our word for it. This work of beauty will look great no matter where you decide to have it on display and it turns smoking a fine cigar into an even better experience, because who would not want to be offered a cigar like this. This finest of cigar boxes also comes with a perfect working lock...
Category
1890s European Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
French Victorian Embossed Sterling Silver and Glass Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
French Victorian rectangular double glass inkwell with incised monogrammed sterling silver hinged lids. (Hallmarked).
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal, Silver
A Set of Two Scottish Banded Agate Table Seals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Jewels for your desk or table.......A Pair of antique semi-precious Scottish banded agate wax seals for sealing letters. They are hand carved in natural s...
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1850s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Agate
Victorian Glass and Sterling Silver Match Striker / Paperweight
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, large antique Victorian English sterling silver and glass match striker, an addition to our ornamen...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Victorian Brass Tavern Candlestick with Service Bell
Located in Plainview, NY
A late 19th century antique English Victorian brass tavern candlestick with service bell. The brass surface has some discoloration due to the age b...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Victorian English Silver and Tortoise Inkwell : Single Rare Piece
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Very elegant and rare silver and tortoise Victorian inkwell: a wonderful piece for Your desk.
Punched: London, 1884.
A/2128.
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
Unusual Mid 19th Century Bronze & Ormolu Inkwell in the Form of Well-Cast Coc
Located in London, GB
An unusual mid 19th Century bronze & ormolu Inkwell in the form of well-cast Cockerel with lifting head, spurs and flamboyant tail feathers, raised on moulded socle.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Victorian Glass and Sterling Silver Match Striker / Paperweight
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and glass match striker; an addition to our ornamental collection.
This exceptional antique silver and glass match striker has a globular form.
The surface of the glass body is embellished with a serrated texture which composes a match striker.
The ornamentation to the glass body is segmented with plain subtly concave vertical flutes.
The upper portion of this antique glass match striker...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Candle Sticks and Inkwell Émeaux de Bresse Desk Set Enamel Brass France
Located in Munich, DE
This beautifully enamelled set comprising an inkwell and two candlesticks will cheer up any room.
A fine example of the wonderful enamel work executed in Bresse around 1870.
The mast...
Category
1870s French Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Victorian Paper Mache Lacquered Hand Painted Letter Stand
Located in Suffolk, GB
Victorian lacquered paper mâché hand painted letter stand with pretty painted blossom decorated and gilt highlights on a black lacquer background.
Perf...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Paper
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Stonemason's Mallet
Located in New Orleans, LA
This exceptional and one-of-a-kind wooden mallet commemorates the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which occurred on February 10, 1840. Exqu...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Black Forest Hand Carved Terrier Inkwell Stand with Glass Eyes, Swiss circa 1880
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Black Forest hand carved terrier inkwell stand with glass eyes, Swiss, circa 1880. This highly sought-after piece features an adorable and detailed, crisply carved dog with a stylize...
Category
19th Century Swiss Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Pair of Large 19th Century Victorian Faceted Cut Glass Ball Paperweights
Located in London, GB
A pair of 19th Century Victorian faceted cut glass very large ball paperweights of contrasting clear and black finish. Each ball is cut with an intricately faceted geometric design w...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Cut Glass
Antique Repousse Sterling Inkwell with Insert
Located in San Diego, CA
Antique hand-hammered repousse sterling silver inkwell, circa 1900. The inkwell has a single back hinge to open the lid and a screw cap and the glass liner. Fine condition and rich p...
Category
Early 20th Century American Victorian Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Gilt Bronze and Marble Inkwell
By G. None
Located in Bronx, NY
This vintage 19th century inkwell is beautifully designed with a detailed sculpted doré' bronze reminiscent the poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The figure is costumed in a draped g...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Victorian Cut Glass and Sterling Silver Desk Inkwell
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian cut glass and English sterling silver mounted desk inkwell, part of our antique silver and gl...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Gilt Bronze French Letter Holder Picket Fence with Love Birds
Located in Haarlem, NL
Victorian romantic and very charming bronze doré French letter holder with cast bronze dividers in the shape of three picket fences with love birds on the last fence on a flat brass base.
To hold all your "lettres d...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Brass, Walnut and Ebonized Double Inkwell Set
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
English Victorian inkwell set. This walnut set has been accented with an ebony color and an overall brass decoration,
mid-late 10th century.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Fine 19th Century Tunbridge Ware Paperweight & Pen Rest, England circa 1870
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Showing a finely turned fruitwood-handle / pen-rest, affixed to a weighted burl wood base decorated with geometric and floral motifs in stick-work and tessellated mosaics, the sides ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Fruitwood, Burl, Walnut
English Antique Ink Eraser/Letter Opener with Sterling Handle
Located in Sheffield, MA
Although the purpose was once for "erasing" ink, this antique English piece can very well be used as a letter opener. It probably did serve a dual purpose way back when. The eraser...
Category
1880s English Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver, Steel
19th Century British Tunbridge Ware Lap Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and extremely unique and rare 19th Century British Tunbridge ware lap desk.
This lap desk is unlike any of it’s kind we have seen before.
From cir...
Category
Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Maple, Walnut, Satinwood, Ebony, Wood
English Officers Equestrian Silverplate, Enamel & Hoof Inkwell
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
English Officers Equestrian silver plate, enamel and hoof inkwell, an exquisite example with a portrait of the beloved horse, expertly mounted, possibly b...
Category
1890s English High Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver Plate
Unusual English Crab-Shaped Brass Inkstand
Located in London, GB
Unusual English crab-shaped brass inkstand
English, late 19th century
Measures: Height 8cm, width 18cm, depth 17cm
This charming brass inkstand takes the form of a naturalistica...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Antique Victorian English Sterling Silver Meat Skewers / Letter Openers
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, large pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver letter openers/meat skewers; an addition to our Victorian silv...
Category
1840s Great Britain (UK) Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
19th Century Victorian Malachite and Ormolu-Mounted Inkwell
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique Victorian ormolu and malachite mounted inkwell, circa 1870 in date.
The ormolu inkwell has a decorative inset turquoise cabochon gemstone with a chain ...
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
Antique English Burr Walnut & Hand Painted Porcelain Stationery Box, circa 1850
Located in Bath, GB
A quite wonderful and romantic stationery box, ready to grace the finest of desk-tops.
Made from burr walnut the wedge shaped box is smothered in fine quality polished brass mount...
Category
1850s English Early Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Two 19th Century English Walnut Carved Victorian Dachshund Wiener Dog Inkwells
Located in Haarlem, NL
Set of two very cute original 19th century carved wooden Victorian era wiener dogs or dachshund inkwells.
The bigger one, which is a dachshund head, has a hinged lid that opens to r...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Antique English Novelty / Figural Brass Inkwell - Hare c.1880
Located in Bath, GB
A charming and scarce inkwell made from polished English brass featuring a beautifully cast Hare's head.
At first I thought he sported glass eyes but taking a closer look, they look...
Category
1880s English Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Magnificent Antique English Gilded Bronze Hare Inkwell, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A truly fabulous Victorian novelty inkwell made from solid cast bronze in the form of a hunting Hare holding a rifle, smothered in the original gold with a fabulous antique patina.
...
Category
1880s English Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver and Chalcedony Pin Cushion
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian sterling silver pin cushion modelled in the form of a shoe made by Adie & Lovekin Ltd; an addition to our animal related silverware collection.
This exceptional antique sterling silver pin cushion...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Victorian Cast Iron "Lion" Inkwell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figural lion inkwell boasting original paint with hinged lion's head concealing the well, circa late 1800s
Patina / paint loss consistent with age / use.
Category
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Iron
English Brass Inkstand in the Form of a Lobster
Located in London, GB
English brass inkwell in the form of a lobster
English, late 19th century
Measures: Height 9.5cm, width 17.5cm, depth 33cm
This bizarre yet charming brass inkwell takes the guis...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
19th century Embossed Bronze Inkwell
Located in Savannah, GA
Bronze inkwell intricately embossed with scroll work. Features include a pen vest and back tray and double inkwells with griffins on the back gallery. A continental piece possibly Au...
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Late 19th Century German Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Fine English Letter / Postal Scale in Malachite by Sampson Mordan, circa 1860
Located in Bath, GB
A very fine and rare antique English desk or letter scale, the base covered in stunning green Malachite.
The gilded brass or bronze fittings are all hand engraved and the two pans...
Category
1850s English Early Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Antique Continental Ceramic Pink & Gilt Striped Shell or Oil Lamp Styled Inkwell
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique ceramic inkwell is presumed to have been made in Continental Europe in circa 1880 in the period Victorian style. The inkwell is cl...
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Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Grand French Three-Piece Desk Set, Hand Painted Porcelain Inset, circa 1860
Located in Bath, GB
Wonderful to find a top-notch, highly decorative and most unusual desk set, French in origin dating to around 1860. Made from nutty coloured burl Walnut, all three pieces are mounted with the most wonderful polished brass mounts all inset with fabulous hand painted porcelain plaques.
Our restorer had to remove all the mounts to professionally clean and on doing so found the name of the figure depicted on the plaques, "Ninon De Lenclos" a French Author, Courtesan, Freethinker and Patron of the Arts.
The set is made up of a Stationery box with brass swing handles each side; the box complete with a working tasselled key. The box opens to reveal the wonderful original gilded leather lining with the original paper lining the sides of the dividers. The lock and hinges are beautifully engraved, a true sign of quality.
The next piece is a hefty large oval Walnut Inkstand with a large glass inkwell...
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1860s French Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Grand English Bulldog Novelty Inkwell with Glass Eyes, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A magnificent English Victorian inkwell made from solid English brass having been professionally polished to gleam.
This grand figural dog inkwell was modelled in the form of an E...
Category
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Early Victorian Carved Bone Cane Handle On Ebony Base
Located in Copenhagen, K
Early Victorian carved cane handle, covered in a variety of bas relief flowers, leaves, a lion head, and on opposite side, an angel.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bone, Ebony
Silvered Bronze Monkey Wearing a Hat Inkwell, France, 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
French bronze inkwell, zoomorphic inkwell in the form of a monkey head in a hinged nightcap, with glass eyes
bronze ink well statue in the form of a o...
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Early 20th Century French Victorian Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Three Sterling Silver Mounted Commemorative Horse Hoof Inkwells
Located in London, GB
These interesting inkwells were crafted in Britain between the Victorian period and early to mid-20th century.
The works have been created from horse hooves, applied with sterling silver mounts. Each hoof has been set onto a silver horseshoe and features a silver top and lid. Two of the tops have been engraved to imitate real horse hair, while the third is more simple, with banded ornament. All three have been given covers, two of which feature commemorative inscriptions. One lid states, ‘The Grey/1907-1917’ — presumably the name of the favourite racehorse, whose hoof this is — and another reads, ‘Mavourneen/ Died June 29th / Aged 53’. ‘Mavourneen’ is an Irish Gaelic word meaning ‘my beloved’. The dedicatee’s age of 53 implies that they were a human, perhaps a jokey, or racehorse owner. The lids open up onto a silver-lined interior, intended to be used for storing ink as part of a desk arrangement. The inkwells are stamped, on their underside, with silver hallmarks and maker’s marks, ‘J.T.’ and ‘C & CS’.
This set of three horse hoof inkwells...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Bookstand
Located in High Point, NC
19th century bookstand from England made from rosewood. The handles are hand-turned along with the spindles, which terminate on the ends with lovely lyre inspired shaped pieces. The ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Rosewood
1890s, Antique Yellow Gold and Enamel Parasol Handle and Rib Tips
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique yellow gold and enamel parasol handle and rib tip set; an addition to our diverse enamelwork collection.
This exceptional antique parasol handle...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique French Bronze Pocket Watch Stand / Match Strike, Equestrian / Horses
Located in Bath, GB
A fabulous antique French pocket watch stand, from the Bordeaux "Le Bouscat" racecourse, the original blue enamel sign indicating this.
Below this label is the little hook ready to hang your pocket watch, I only had this small one at hand for photography (not included). At the base the naturalistic tree trunk would have acted as a match holder, with the textured sides used to strike the non-safety...
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Early 1900s French Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Antique English Onyx, Brass and Velvet Twin Photo Frame
Located in London, GB
This elegant photo frame was created in England in the late 19th century, during the reign of Queen Victoria. The item stands on three brass legs, forming an easel support. The frame...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Onyx, Brass
Antique English Novelty Equestrian Inkwell, Horse, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
This is only the second time in many years of being in the antiques business that I have come across this wonderful figural equestrian inkwell.
B...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Antique English Bronze, Brass and Glass Inkstand / Inkwell, circa 1870 Victorian
Located in Bath, GB
A truly unusual and quite spectacular Victorian inkstand made from cast polished bronze standing on cast reticulated feet. The gallery around the back is also pierced or reticulated ...
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1870s English Late Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Antique English Novelty Pen / Nib Wipe, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A most unusual figural pen nib wipe made from brass with a wonderful untouched antique patina.
In the from of a knight in armour, the back of the helmet re...
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Large Victorian Period Sterling Silver-Mounted Controlled Bubbles Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
Large, Victorian period, sterling silver-mounted controlled bubbles crystal inkwell with hinged lid, Boston, circa 1895, Bigleow ,Kennard and Co. makers. Measures: 3 3/4 inches high ...
Category
1890s American Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Yorkshire Prattware Mexborough Chapel Moneybox
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Staffordshire Pottery Yorkshire money box which features Mexborough Chapel - with the box owners name, 'MIRIAM WINN', printed on the front. Flanked by two figures standing either sid...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Desk Accessories
Materials
Pottery
Antique, New and Vintage Desk Accessories
Whether you’ve carved out a space for a nifty home office or you prefer the morning commute, why not dress up your desk with antique and vintage desk accessories? To best tiptoe the line between desk efficiency and desk enjoyment, we suggest adding a touch of the past to your modern-day space.
Desks are a funny thing. Their basic premise has remained the same for quite literally centuries: a flat surface, oftentimes a drawer, and potentially a shelf or two. However, the contents that lay upon the desk? Well, the evolution has been drastic to say the least.
Thank the Victorians for the initial popularity of the paperweight. The Industrial Revolution offered the novel concept of leisure-time to Europeans, giving them more time to take part in the then crucial activity of letter writing. Decorative glass paperweight designs were all the rage, and during the mid-19th-century some of the most popular makers included the French companies of Baccarat, St. Louis and Clichy.
As paper was exceedingly expensive in the early to mid-19th-century, every effort was made to utilize a full sheet of it. Paper knives, which gave way to the modern letter opener, were helpful for cutting paper down to an appropriate size.
Books — those bound volumes of paper, you may recall — used to be common occurrences on desks of yore and where there were books there needed to be bookends. As a luxury item, bookend designs have run the gamut from incorporating ultra-luxurious materials (think marble and Murano glass) to being whimsical desk accompaniments (animal figurines were highly popular choices).
Though the inkwell’s extinction was ushered in by the advent of the ballpoint pen (itself quasi-obsolete at this point), there is still significant charm to be had from placing one of these bauble-like objets in a central spot on one’s desk. You may be surprised to discover the mood-boosting powers an antique — and purposefully empty — inkwell can provide.
The clamor for desk clocks arose as the Industrial Revolution transitioned labor from outdoors to indoors, and allowed for the mass-production of clock parts in factories. Naturally, elaborate designs soon followed and clocks could be found made by artisans and luxury houses like Cartier.
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