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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 274830, member: 25&quot;]Language can make words as precise as they need to be. Describing the item for sale purposes, or talking to another clock person, carriage timepiece, and indeed the use of the distinction between all timepiece, striking and chiming clocks is useful. If you ask for a spade you do not want someone to bring you a shovel.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is quite true that people with no real interest in old clocks can and will call it what they like. Using the correct terminology in anything is a way of signalling to whoever you are talking to that you have at least some knowledge of the subject, your opinions will be accorded&nbsp; a bit more respect, and people may be more willing to tell you things if they do not feel they have to start with baby steps.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you use the search term &#039;mignonette clock&#039; you will find more examples, many misusing the mignonette term for mignon examples.</p><p>The French classified carriage timepieces and clocks by size, a four was quite large, a 0 or 0-bis was what we&#039;d tend to think typical today and led to the term obis cased clock which just describes the size, not the style. Even smaller than a size 0 was a mignon, smaller than that a mignonette.</p><p>Case styles include corniche, Anglaise and gorge.</p><p>This one has a gorge case, rated somewhat more desirable than the more common corniche style.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actual measurements would be useful, also a good picture of the back plate with the door open, and the mark on the bottom, which may relate to the number of teeth on the escape wheel and is a guide for which type of platform to fit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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