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Very fine moon dial with silvered edge to moon showing exact age of moon (this is rare). David Holgares shop Browns in Liverpool has this clock.

This moon dial with silvered edge was almost certainly painted by same person as that shown in slide 169 (Nathaniel Brown with painted centre). Moon scenes: landscapes with people.

Moon dial painted almost up to edge. Moon dial faces: faces have pronounced cheeks. Moon scenes: man and dog; hay maker and girl.

Very crude painting, only one moon face restored. Moon dial has tiny unpainted edge, thick metal.

Moon dial: well painted, with two landscapes, both include water.

Iron moon dial. Moon scenes: landscapes, one with lake.

Moon faces: pale-faced. Moon scenes: sailing ship; windmill.

All-painted moon dial, very damage, with two landscapes. Quite well painted.

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.

Complicated clock, belonged to Ernest L Edwards, given to Merseyside Museum. Slide 281 shows dirty varnish on moon, 283 fully cleaned. Very fine professionally done painting. Moon has tiny mouth, vigorously painted waterfall on one side with leaning pine trees, street scene on other side.

Painted edge moon dial from brass dial clock at Speke Hall (Eric Gent). Dark blue background with stars.

Unmarked spare moon dial, silvered edge. Reasonable but damaged. Moon dial faces: rather crude, brush strokes visible. Moon scenes: mountain with cattle, lakeside with cattle and tree.

This slide shows completed restoration, with overpainting removed on one moon face and edge re-silvered.

All-painted moon dial, very damage, with two landscapes. Quite well painted.

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.

Complicated clock, belonged to Ernest L Edwards, given to Merseyside Museum. Slide 281 shows dirty varnish on moon, 283 fully cleaned. Very fine professionally done painting. Moon has tiny mouth, vigorously painted waterfall on one side with leaning pine trees, street scene on other side.

Painted edge moon dial from brass dial clock at Speke Hall (Eric Gent). Dark blue background with stars.

This slide shows what can happen to a painted moon dial where very bad repainting is done on moon faces: crude in the extreme.

Unmarked spare moon dial, silvered edge. Reasonable but damaged. Moon dial faces: rather crude, brush strokes visible. Moon scenes: mountain with cattle, lakeside with cattle and tree.

Moon with starry sky.

Deacon movement for dial shown in slides 234 and 235.

Main dial: unusually shaped dial plate, Chinese-inspired painting. Well done, does not look like Birmingham work.

Main dial: eight-day breakarch, three-train, greyed off-white background, no décor.

Main dial: eight-day breakarch, three-train, greyed off-white background, no décor.

Main dial: false moon painted on, three abbeys and one cottage corners, crude colours.

One of the first clocks FT restored. Bracket, probably Wilson. Flat gesso corners, painting in breakarch.

Main dial: wooden Black Forest dial, scene in arch. Frances Tennant worked on restoration.

Main dial: pseudo-Oriental oddity, painted on brass. Does not look like Birmingham work.

Main dial: eight-day breakarch, three-train, greyed off-white background, no décor.

Main dial: gold leaf ovals in corners with flowers; girl cutting wheat in breakarch. Rather crude.

Main dial: geometric corners with some gold; woman reading book in breakarch, church in distance.

Main dial: cottages and church corners; cottages in breakarch. Quite well done.

One of the finest post-1800 painted bracket clock dials I have seen. Dished dial, one-train.

Main dial: crude colours and painting of cottages and abbeys corners; cottage in arch.

Main dial: cottages and castles corners; farm cottage scene in breakarch.

Main dial: cottages with towers corners, well painted; two fishermen in breakarch.

Large main dial: eight-day arched; cottages corners; large ruined castle breakarch; gold band. Pub clock.

Main dial: houses and abbeys corners, bright blue sky into some pin; boy fishing in breakarch. Bright colours, thin paint.

Main dial: houses and abbeys corners, bright blue sky into some pin; boy fishing in breakarch. Bright colours, thin paint.

Main dial: cottages with bridges corners; village girl or Mary and her lamb in breakarch.

Main dial: castle in breakarch, cottages corners, borders date and seconds on dial, name very small across centre.

Main dial: four apostles corners; Last Supper breakarch; gold band. Large dial.

Main dial: swans in corners; girl with gold leaf, high-waisted dress in breakarch.

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: gold floral corners; lady with dog in breakarch; pear and plum centre.

Main dial: ruins with orange leaning trees in corners; huntsman doffing cap in breakarch. Well painted.

Main dial: hounds in corners; huntsman with hounds in breakarch. Well painted.

Main dial: eight-day, gold (bronze) background to cottages and towers and windmills corners; mother and child at stream breakarch. Simple painting.

Main dial: sheep with lambs corners, the Incredulity of St Thomas in breakarch. Well painted, in Walker-Hughes style.

Main dial: pink roses and morning glory corners with turquoise motif; river with bridge in breakarch. Nice painting.

Main dial: lighthouse corners; harbour at Haverford West in breakarch. Well painted.

Main dial: funny gold flowers with green leaves in corners; ships in harbour breakarch.

Main dial: brilliant shells corners; man and horses harrowing in added breakarch. Similar to late Wilson's.

Main dial: houses with towers corners; girl shrimping in breakarch. Thin paint.

Main dial: abbeys and castles corners; seaside with ship in breakarch.

Main dial: cottages and abbeys corners; lakeside scene in breakarch. Thin, hasty painting.

Main dial: arched gold rainbow background on shell corners, navy blue background to shells; corners with gold flowers; breakarch with floral arch.

Main dial: huntsman with hounds in breakarch, deer in corners. Well painted.

Main dial: cottage and house with tower corners; village girl with dog in breakarch.

Main dial: fat pink roses corners with small primulas, rather crude; Hamlet on stage in breakarch.

Main dial: Crude paintings, dogs corners, man shooting in breakarch. Similar to dial shown on slide 459.

Main dial: gold flowers all types, cream background; floral corners; woman and child at spring in breakarch; thin paint.

Main dial: strange blue and mauve flowers corners on dark yellow ochre background; rapidly painted cottage in breakarch.

Main dial: eight-day, rainbow sky, religious ruins corners, silver leaf; breakarch Moses recieving tablets. Very striking dial.

Main dial: simple blue flowers with gold blue band corners; girl with basket of flowers in breakarch.

Main dial: late dial; abbeys corners; boy and dog in breakarch.

Main dial: cottages with bridge corners; cottage by river breakarch. Poor quality painting.

Main dial: short castles in corners, Birmingham-style; Scotsman in kilt in breakarch, luminous with large thistle, shiny black back paint.

Main dial: cottages and abbeys corners; St Mark and lion in breakarch. Simplistic painting.

Main dial: three Apostles and Mary Magdalene corners; nativity scene breakarch, copy of painting? Dates in reverse on dial.

Main dial: funny lions corners; Daniel in lion's den in breakarch, subject named.

Nativity scene breakarch, copy of painting?

Main dial: urious revolving hunting scene from brass-dialled northern longcase clock, with Adam and Eve in breakarch.

Main dial: one bright red rose bud, two smaller buds; base paint very white.

Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, where original chapter ring had been removed and new painted centre, complete with numerals, put in. Impossible to say who made dial centre, but it is early, with decorated petal winding holes.

Main dial: square-ended date aperture; red rose and small blue flowers centre. Badly damaged by flame or chemical.

Main dial: bright roses and strawberry corners; moss roses centre.

Main dial: houses with ruins corners. Thin paint.

Main dial: pink background to white flower, orange and gold rest of corner. Unusual.

Main dial: small modified fans corners, shells on green background, yellow triangles, all very bright.

Main dial: shells and flowers; green background to morning glory corners; black ends to corner with white flowers. Good design.

Main dial: orange background to roses corners, shells and flowers.

Main dial: nasturtium and blue anemone corners. Small dial, cut-off foot for date dial, name in garland, lots of inscriptions on back.

Main dial: shells rather crude, some bronze powder paint.

Main dial: auriculas and morning glory in corners; gold band, shells and flowers.

Main dial: L-shaped bright borders, pink and blue flowers with fruit corners; gold flowers dial centre.

Main dial: cream background; roses, tulips and gold flowers corners; pears, gold flowers and blue fruit centre.

Main dial: cream background; anemone, morning glory and gold flowers corners; grapes, pears and blue flowers centre.

Main dial: square-towered churches corners; church with sheep centre.

Main dial: eight-day, cream background, anemone and gold flowers corners, morning glory and gold flowers dial centre.

Main dial: very bright shells corners; bright bird centre.

Main dial: L-shaped framing for gold auriculas.

Main dial: roses and garland around centre. Has been restored.