Moon faces: slightly squashed features. Moon scenes: two land scenes with windmills.
Main dial: girl on seesaw replaced; man original.
Main dial: blue-grey; lilies and crocus corners; honeysuckle centre.
Main dial: cottages and castles corners, one windmill and one cottage dial centre, vague worlds and dove of peace humps.
Main dial: navy blue background and orange vetch corners, rather blue worlds, dove of peace humps.
Main dial: gold flowers corners, scene of "cottage cares" in breakarch.
Main dial: gold flowers in corners, gritty paint, worlds with dove of peace, scalloped gold edges in humps. Hemispheres: scalloped gold edges.
Main dial: gold flowers in corners, gritty paint, worlds with dove of peace, scalloped gold edges in humps. Hemispheres: scalloped gold edges.
Main dial: sheep with background in corners. Hemispheres: one cottage, one church.
Main dial: square breakarch, 8 eight-day, well painted swans in corners.
Main dial: signature scroll-like ribbon across dial centre, four continents, well painted, distinct style corners. Hemispheres: vague words and doves of peace, gold band edges.
Main dial: signature scroll-like ribbon across dial centre, four continents, well painted, distinct style corners. Hemispheres: vague words and doves of peace, gold band edges.
Main dial: gold with green ends corners.
Main dial: gold under tulips corners, small dial, poor condition.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, gesso spandrel-like corners, garland in centre, low gesso framed oval with cottage and landscape, gesso swags at either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, gesso spandrel-like corners, garland in centre, low gesso framed oval with cottage and landscape, gesso swags at either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: surprised-looking bird with small flowers dial centre.
Main dial: off-white, four-seasons corners, heavy-thighed ladies, painted up to edge. Hemispheres: good maps. False plate: cast iron.
Moon dial faces: pink faces, squinty eyes, similar to Wilson. Moon scenes: ship at sea; landscape with two figures, church and bare branch on left.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, wide oval shape, rather bold garlands with roses either side, low oval, gold-banded, containing the battle of Nile. False plate: cast iron.
A fine and unusually small, satinwood, balloon bracket clock in exceptional condition.
A green lacquer longcase with caddy top and arched brass dial of most unusual design and incorporating an automata half-hour strike.
A mahogany stick barometer with bulb cistern.
A very fine, cathedral, three-train skeleton clock, quarter striking on eight bells and hour striking on a gong.
A fine quality, two-train skeleton clock in the Lichfield Cathedral style by these noted makers.
A fine and unusually large Victorian, quarter striking lantern clock.
A small mahogany longcase with engraved silver dial.
A fine carriage clock in gilt corniche case repeating on a bell.
Mahogany longcase.
A very fine and rare, quarter striking skeleton clock by this well-known maker.
1/4 striking clock.
A two-train skeleton of fine quality with hour strike and 1/2 hour strike.
A bracket timepiece in a flat-topped case veneered in walnut and olive wood oysters, by this most celebrated of English makers.
grande sonnerie Vienna regulator.
A good marine stick barometer in a mahogany case.
A grande sonnerie carriage clock no. 5473 with alarm, in a gorge case and with a movement of high quality.
A finely engraved, oval carriage clock with engraved dial mask.
A good Scottish mahogany longcase with painted, arched dial.
A very fine and small mahogany longcase with all the characteristics of this celebrated maker.
A very fine and rare English dial with convex engraved brass dial and verge movement.
A very fine and rare English dial with convex engraved brass dial and verge movement. Same as STR/02/002/058.
A very fine and rare walnut longcase, the movement of one month duration with Roman striking and 10-inch dial with skeletonised silver chapter ring.
A very good longcase with chinoiserie decoration on a green ground, the maker being a former mayor of Doncaster.
A good mahogany stick barometer with unusual cistern cover and double register plate.
Angle barometer.
A good Regency rosewood bracket clock by these well-known makers, complete with a replacement wall bracket.
A fine, ebony veneered striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat on three bells.
A very fine and large lantern clock in exceptional condition from this important city.
An extremely rare Act of Parliament or tavern clock with wood bezel and hour striking movement. Also included is 'Bristol "Act of Parliament" clocks', an article by Adrian Burchall from Illustrated Bristol News (May 1973).
A fine and rare English dial with verge escapement, engraved brass dial and double salt-box case, all in exceptional condition.
A good mahogany bracket clock with brass inlay and matching wall bracket.
A fine mahogany trunk dial timepiece.
An exceptionally fine walnut longcase clock by this celebrated maker.
Act of Parliament timepiece of rare banjo form.
A fine mahogany bow-front stick barometer.
A fine Regency rosewood bracket clock in a chamfer top case and with replacement wall bracket.
A good provincial mahogany longcase of fine colour and figuring and with moon dial.
A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer of good colour and with 12-inch dial.
A very fine Vienna regulator timepiece in a tapered mahogany case with architectural pediment.
A very rare English dial clock with flat wood dial and hour striking verge movement.
A painted tin figure of a Black Forest clock pedlar carrying a shield dial clock and three pendulums.
A very fine and large mahogany banjo clock barometer.
A very fine and early shield dial tavern clock decorated with gilt chinoiserie on a black ground.
A fine and small, seventeenth-century lantern clock with verge, timepiece movement and alarm.
Main dial: painting of churches and white houses corners, no borders. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: dished dial, turquoise background to gold flowers corners; gold flowers in breakarch.
Moon faces: round-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, serious expressions. Moon scenes: ship with widespread sails; ruined abbey on left.
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: rather round-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, slightly quizzical expressions. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with pointed tower.
Moon faces: slightly sleepy-eyed, small mouth, pink cheeks, pleasant expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; large ruin with tower.
Moon faces: round-eyed, very full mouths, low-down red cheeks. Moon scenes: log-like ship at sea; house with red chimney by road with figure.
Main dial: funny shells corners; two birds dial centre, scenes of church, crude painting. Hemispheres: silver-leaf edges. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: quite different artist; small eyes, small mouth, very red cheeks. Moon scenes: white swan on slanted river; white house on waterslide.
Main dial: gold flowers outlined blue-green in corners.
Moon faces: red noses, red cheeks, pleasant expressions. Moon scenes: peanut-shaped boat on sea; cottage with windmill in distance.
Main dial: abbeys and cottages corners; large dial. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: sheet iron, well marked.
Main dial: gold shells outlined Prussian blue corners; large flowers breakarch, with hole in centre.
Moon faces: very red-cheeked. Moon scenes: log-like ship; square Georgian house, blue roof.
Images of dials made by Wilkes & Baker, Birmingham dial makers active c1810.
Images of dials made by William Wood, a Birmingham dial maker active c1820.
Moon faces: exactly like Hobson moon faces. Moon scenes: castle; rather "peanut" ship at sea.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off white, very plain, no decoration. Superb quality.
Main dial: bright turquoise corners and pink and yellow roses; pink rose and dark blue morning glory centre.
This series comprises images of clock dials made by unknown and non-Birmingham makers, as well as clocks from museum and private collections.
One card per dial. Set also includes some miscellaneous cards with notes. Each card gives dial maker's name, slide numbers, and detailed description of dial that includes: date, type, graphics, signature, main dial description, hemispheres, type of gilded gesso, date aperture, date dial on main dial, seconds dial on main dial, base paint, condition when received, date dial metal, date dial condition