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TEN/B/01/00016 · Item · 1983 Jul
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Main dial: eight-day, two-train square dial, matted and engraved centre, ringed winding holes, square decorated date aperture, separate date ring, inner markings to chapter ring, interim markings, smallish Arabic minute numerals, chevron engraving on dial edge, four-seasons spandrels.

TEN/B/01/01597 · Item · 1994 Mar ?
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Main dial: 30-hour, two-train square dial with penny moon. Well painted, large cherub head spandrels, engraving by good engraver, probably Lancashire (see Colin Brown, The Clockmakers of Llanrwst, p. 73: illustration has the same small boat, but semicircular aperture for moons date and date of month); supercilious bird, Dutch-style chapter ring.

TEN/B/01/00230 · Item · 1980 Nov
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Moon dial faces: jolly, painted type of moon face with red cheeks and nose. Moon dial painted right up to edge, no numerals, medium bright-blue type sky with large comet. Moon scenes: bright landscape with man crossing sagging bridge.

TEN/B/01/00278 · Item · 1981 May
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Moon dial faces: unusual pale sky to moon with comets. Moon dial originally meant to have age of moon dial painted on moon edge, but this was painted over, looks original; age of moon on separate silvered piece in breakarch. Frances Tennant repaired mechanism and cleaned up moon dial, main dial unrestored.

TEN/B/01/01265 · Item · 1990 Jan
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Silvered edge moon dial, smaller than usual moon with age of moon on engraved edge. Rather crude painting, thickly done, showing a waterfall with large tumbling rock. Unusual, probably sent by Bob Baxter, Southport.

TEN/B/01/00015 · Item · n. d.
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

TEN/B/01/00014 · Item · 1978 Feb
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

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.