Main dial: numbers in gold with black outline, blue chapter ring; roses in modified fan corners, green background; maps had to be replaced. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Moon faces: quite round-eyed, pink cheeks, small mouths, pleasant expressions. Moon scenes: ship at sea; large sheep on bank.
Main dial: Roman numbers in gold with black outlines; blue chapter ring; four-continents corners, waterside, scenes hemispheres. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: rather round-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, dreamy expressions. Moon scenes: ship with widespread sails; cottage on a bluff.
Main dial: polyanthus corners on green background. Hemispheres: framed maps.
Main dial: attempt at Walker & Hughes, bitty style corners, garlands in humps. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Son.
Main dial: dark background, pink flowers corners ("H. Foster Lpool 1848-51" had been put on). Hemispheres: doves and worlds, gold edging, very sketchy.
Main dial: navy blue corners with pink and white roses; two ruins centre with funny gold crosses; bird under date aperture. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Son.
Main dial: not a large dial, four-seasons ladies corners. Hemispheres: maps were replaced. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: eyes close together, red cheeks, small mouths similar face in slide 1311 breakarch. Moon scenes: swan on riverside; boat going wing and wing.
Main dial: very poor condition, thin ground, extensive rust damage; pink roses, yellow daisies, blue flowers, repeat corners; man with gun and pheasant breakarch. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: very red-cheeked. Moon scenes: log-like ship; square Georgian house, blue roof.
Main dial: off-white, watercolour-type roses, gold band.
Main dial: fan and garland corner; bad blowtorch damage; heavy moon arch. Hemispheres: Hobson maps. False plate: separate slide of false plate. Rather rare dial maker, W.M. Wood, but Hobson maps.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off-white four-seasons corners; gold band outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic above equator.
Main dial: off-white, convolvulous corners with primulas; farm scene breakarch.
Main dial: blue background to corners with pink shells, auriculas and upside down tulip corners; beautifully painted winter scene in breakarch.
Main dial: green background; fruit corners; nice scene with bridge and cottage breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: cottages corners; river scene breakarch.
Main dial: turquoise corners with fat pink and yellow roses; bird in centre.
Images of dials made by Samuel Baker and Samuel Baker & Son, Birmingham dial makers active around 1826–50.
Images of dials made by Francis Byrne, a Birmingham dial maker active there in 1772–77 and in London in the 1780s and 1790s.
Images of dials made by William Finnemore, a Birmingham dial maker active in 1810s–1850s, and one image of a dial by Finnemore & Son.
Images of dials made by Richard Hipkiss, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1780s–1840s
Images of dials made by Edward Hobson and E. Hobson & Son, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1830s.
Images of dials made by the Nicholas brothers, Birmingham factors and dial makers active in the 1790s–1820.
Images of dials made by N. Porter, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1810.
Images of dials made by Wilkes & Baker, Birmingham dial makers active c1810.
One of the first clocks FT restored. Bracket, probably Wilson. Flat gesso corners, painting in breakarch.
This was a large brass dial with head and foliage spandrels; mechanism had been altered. Moon faces and ship and scene proved to be printed on paper, stuck on with rubber cement then varnished over with brown varnish and highlights on moon faces added. A lot of the original painting was pulled off removing paper, but enough was left to restore this rathe crude moon dial.
Main dial: eight-day, 4-train, arched top. Extremely fine clock, matted centre, square date aperture, name in applied oval below centre, separate seconds ring, inner markings to chapter ring, interim markings between Roman numerals; two subsidiary dials top left and right, tune selector in breakarch, head and foliage spandrels, dolphin in breakarch.
Main dial: pink and blue morning glory corners, green plaid ends.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with Adam and Eve automata in breakarch, engraved and silvered dial centre, with centre date on chapter ring, seconds on dial centre, Rococo spandrels. Crude painting of Adam and Eve, both arms to move and corkscrew serpent (brass) moves around the tree trunk; motto "O Man Except of No Thing that God Forbids" on breakarch.
Moon dial with age of moon painted on, done in a very distinct style.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train square dial, centre date hand, diapered engraved centre, applied seconds ring in dial centre, head and foliage spandrels, numerals quite large.
Main dial: one-piece silvered dial with painted moon. Slide 90 shows restored other Harland moon in Columbia Museum, similar to that in slides 19x and 21x.
Main dial: brass dial, top arch part moon.
Main dial: huntsman with hounds in breakarch, deer in corners. Well painted.
Main dial: wooden Black Forest dial, scene in arch. Frances Tennant worked on restoration.
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Main dial: 3-train arched dial with moon, matted engraved centre; maps on hemispheres, head and foliage spandrels, painted moon.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train originally, third train added later. Arched dial with moon, matted and engraved centre, round-ended date aperture, separate solid seconds circle, maps on hemispheres, head and foliage spandrels, name on separate silvered piece in breakarch. This clock has been heavily improved probably in Victorian times when third train and gong were added. Frances Tennant repaired mechanism and cleaned up moon dial, main dial unrestored.
Main dial: orange background to roses corners, shells and flowers.
Moons age engraved on moon dial. Moon faces: nice, dark sky with silvered stars.
Main dial: arched, scene in breakarch; pink roses on dark background corners; blue mill and tower, river scene with boat in breakarch; morning glory centre.
Main dial: cottages and haystacks corners, thin paint.
One of the finest post-1800 painted bracket clock dials I have seen. Dished dial, one-train.
Main dial: shells rather crude, some bronze powder paint.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon; matted centre, centre date name on applied silvered shield; Chippendale or Rococo spandrels; moon age separate silvered band. Hemispheres: rising sun and maps.
Silvered engraved days-of-the-week dial.
Main dial: cottages and old towers corners, bottom ones have bridge. Thin paint.
Moon dial with silvered edge; dark blue sky has starts and a comet.
Main dial: one-piece silvered dial.
Main dial: eight-day breakarch, three-train, greyed off-white background, no décor.
Main dial: shells and flowers; green background to morning glory corners; black ends to corner with white flowers. Good design.
Main dial: eighteenth-century brass dial bracket clock with automata in the breakarch. Brass rocking ship was engraved under the paint (owner Eric Gent, St Helens).
Main dial: eighteenth-century brass dial bracket clock with automata in the breakarch. Brass rocking ship was engraved under the paint (owner Eric Gent, St Helens).
Main dial: cottages and church corners; cottages in breakarch. Quite well done.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life; motto "Time flys, pursue it Man" in breakarch. Moon looks 1800-style, Manchester-style maps in hemispheres.
Main dial: houses with ruins corners. Thin paint.
Main dial: four-seasons boys corners, colours bright, dial centre man on horse talking to woman. Maps in hemispheres. Nice dial.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched with moon, centre painting. Applied chapter ring, square date aperture, head and foliage spandrels; maps in hemispheres. This dial had had the centre mistakenly painted in acrylic, because the original oil painting was lost. Dial plate could have been soaked in chemicals, nothing left of it, so new scene had to be made up following the style of the moon.
Main dial: gold cornucopias, roses and morning glories; funny long-necked bird centre.
Main dial: geometric corners with some gold; woman reading book in breakarch, church in distance.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with rocking ship in breakarch, silvered and engraved centre with seconds, date on centre of dial, Rococo spandrels; painted seascape in arch with wavy cutout round hole for rocking ship; name on applied piece in breakarch.
Very crude painting, only one moon face restored. Moon dial has tiny unpainted edge, thick metal.
Main dial: simple blue flowers with gold blue band corners; girl with basket of flowers in breakarch.
Main dial: funny shells corners, yellow ochre band.
Main dial: cottage and house with tower corners; village girl with dog in breakarch.
Main dial: cottages with bridges corners; village girl or Mary and her lamb in breakarch.
Main dial: 30-hour dial marked "No. 342", single hand, birdcage movement, skeletonized dial plate; matted centre, interim markings, inside markings on chapter ring, cherubs and crown spandrels. Heavy, country-made case.
Main dial: bronze powder background and pink fat roses corners; odd rudimentary maps; gold edge looks hand-drawn.
Moon scenes: sailing ship; house.
Main dial: eight-day square dial, matted and engraved centre, square date aperture, name on applied inner markings on chapter ring, interim markings, separate seconds ring, head and foliage spandrels.
Main dial: pink roses and morning glory corners with turquoise motif; river with bridge in breakarch. Nice painting.
Moon dial painted almost up to edge, rather crude. Moon scenes: milkmaid, couple.
The only example of signed brass dial bracket clock painted decoration: Artist Grimaldi, well-known London painter, signature untouched, seen in 1103.
Moon faces: very unusual style, very pale with rather heavy eyelashes. Moon scenes: shepherdess is dress in mauve. Not seen before.
Main dial: pink background to white flower, orange and gold rest of corner. Unusual.
Silvered edge moon dial with tidal numbers. Rather crude simplistic painting with man fishing on one landscape, man shooting on other.
Iron breakarch moon, A. Bell type. Moon scenes: sailing ship, windmill.
Main dial: eight-day two-train square dial with 12 o'clock moon, painted centre, shaped date aperture, age of moon painted on moon dial edge (12 o'clock moons are rare with painted centres).
Zinc moon dial. Moon scenes: sailing ship, ruined abbey.
Very large dial, 14 1/4. Main dial: roses, carnations and blue flowers corners, very delicate; date aperture very large, decorated. Hemispheres: hand-drawn maps. False plate: iron moon dial.
Main dial: brilliant shells corners; man and horses harrowing in added breakarch. Similar to late Wilson's.
Main dial: eight-day breakarch with automata, 1795 or later. One-piece silvered dial, square-ended date aperture, scrolls in corners, decorated breakarch. Good painting in arch background, Adam and Eve rather crude, with arms to move. New serpent made. Interesting clock.
Main dial: false moon; poorly painted dogs and stags corners, man with dog and gun dial centre.
Pale faced moon. Moon scenes: sailing ship, building with tower.
Moon dial painted almost up to edge. Moon dial faces: faces have pronounced cheeks. Moon scenes: man and dog; hay maker and girl.
Main dial: funny lions corners; Daniel in lion's den in breakarch, subject named.
Main dial: houses and abbeys corners, bright blue sky into some pin; boy fishing in breakarch. Bright colours, thin paint.
Main dial: one-piece silvered dial, automata rocking ship. Nice engraving.
Main dial: castles with water corners; centre complete repaint; date aperture. False plate: Wilson.