Main dial: gold leaf chapter ring, four continents corners; Moses in breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: gold flowers outlined in Prussian blue. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: creamy colour, shell and fruit corners; bronze powder, framed floral. False plate: 482.
Main dial: cream; bitty corners, well preserved; house in low oval.
Main dial: dished dial, turquoise background to gold flowers corners; gold flowers in breakarch.
Moon faces: heavy-eyed, small mouths, bright pink cheeks, pensive look. Moon scenes: ship at sea; swan on lake with temple.
Main dial: four-seasons girls corners, bright colours, gold flowers humps. False plate: sheet iron, unmarked.
Moon faces: round-eyed, red-cheeked, loose lower lips. Moon scenes: typical Wilkes, wide-spread sails on ship; cottage by water edge.
Main dial: very wide breakarch, four-seasons corners, very bright crude painting, cottages and houses. Hemispheres: humps, gold edges, house and cottage. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: round-eyed, pink cheeks, small mouths, pensive expressions. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with tower on hill.
Main dial: pink shells with gold and leaves in corners; two birds centre. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Sons.
Main dial: four-seasons corners, gold sky. Hemispheres: maps outside latitudes. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: round-eyed, very pink cheeks, small mouth, pensive expression. Moon scenes: ship with widespread sails; cottage by a 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.
Main dial: gold flowers outlined blue-green in corners.
Main dial: darkish turquoise background, gold heart and white flowers. Hemispheres: gold doves and worlds, gold band edges to humps. False plate: sheet iron, unstamped.
Moon faces: heavy-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, dreary expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; very pointed church ruin.
Main dial: pale yellow ochre stencil-like corners, green orange and blue floral. False plate: sheet iron, faintly stamped "S Wilkes".
Main dial: breakarch moons; four-elements corners; well-painted high water on breakarch maps. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Son, Birmingham.
Moon faces: red noses, red cheeks, pleasant expressions. Moon scenes: peanut-shaped boat on sea; cottage with windmill in distance.
Moon faces: very red cheeks, red noses, eyes looking slightly upwards. Moon scenes: small cottage with standing figure; very sideways ship at sea, lots of other small ships in distance.
Main dial: dark-blue background to light flowers and small gold band. Hemispheres: gold-edged humps, doves, worlds.
Moon faces: serious. Moon scenes: building with tower; ship at sea.
Main dial: pale blue corners with single roses or hibiscus and red shapes.
Main dial: rose and auricula corners with gold and green. False plate: steel feet, sheet iron.
Main dial: bright corners shells, date aperture.
Main dial: blue-roofed houses corners; two cottages centre. Had been arched then cut off; rather a heavy dial. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: ship automata, pink flowers on pale green corners.
Main dial: large dial, dished; four apostles, girl and dead lamb; boy and dog hemispheres - bathos! False plate: SF.
Moon faces: exactly like Hobson moon faces. Moon scenes: castle; rather "peanut" ship at sea.
Main dial: off white, very plain, no decoration. Superb quality.
Main dial: yellow background with pink roses and blue swirl; river in breakarch. Well painted.
Main dial: blue background to corners with pink shells, auriculas and upside down tulip corners; beautifully painted winter scene in breakarch.
Main dial: shells in dark blue ovals, rope-effect surround, red ends; fantastic scene with Palace and Tramp breakarch. Well painted.
Main dial: dished dial, auriculas in plaid surround.
Main dial: gold band, no decoration at all.
Main dial: auriculas in scroll corners, turquoise moire ends, silver leaf base to flowers.
Main dial: 8-day breakarch, cottages in corners, sketchily done; farm scene in breakarch.
Main dial: ruins in corners; two ships at sea breakarch.
Images of dials made by Thomas Hadley Osborne, a Birmingham dial maker who started his own dial manufactory after the dissolution of the Wilson & Osborne partnership in 1777.
Images of dials made by Richard Blood, a Birmingham dial maker.
Images of dials made by William Francis, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1810s–1830s.
Image of a dial made by Josiah Hayes, a Birmingham dial maker active in the nineteenth century.
Images of dials made by George Walker or Walker & Company, Birmingham dial makers active around 1810.
Images of dials made by Walker & Hughes, a partnership of Birmingham dial makers, George Walker and Thomas Hughes, established around 1812.
Images of dials made by William Wood, a Birmingham dial maker active c1820.
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.
Very early, museum piece. Main dial: interesting skeletonised dial.
Whole clock, Dogman in USA, Samuel Jackson(?). Rolling eyes.
All painted moon with moon's age on outside of moon dial, which has mid-blue sky with stars.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, matted and engraved centre, heavy foliage, interim markings, inside chapter ring markings, minute band, hole cut in dial for seconds disk; square decorated date aperture, name on applied piece in arch, large head and foliage spandrels. Moon painted centre with comet, engraved edge.
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.
Slide 232 shows ceramic plates illustrating The Potter's Art, displayed next to the clock shown in slides 166, 167, 168, 169 and 231.
Moon scenes: sailing ship, church with tower.
Deacon movement for dial shown in slides 234 and 235.
Painted moon dial with stars on dark-blue background. Moon dial faces: sad moon, sour expression.
Main dial: two-train, matted centre, interim markings, outer markings on chapter ring, cherub-head spandrels, separate seconds ring, large bell.
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.
Moon scenes: sailing ship, house.
Main dial: square-towered churches corners; church with sheep centre.
All-painted moon dial, very damage, with two landscapes. Quite well painted.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, matted dial centre. Large ringed winding holes may have been altered as are off-centre; enormous date aperture, applied seconds ring in centre; head and foliage spandrels.
Main dial: ruins with orange leaning trees in corners; huntsman doffing cap in breakarch. Well painted.
Main dial: abbey ruins corners, thin 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.
Moon dial: moons age on all painted moon. Moon was German-style replacement: yellow moon faces, repainted by Frances Tennant, in hopefully Irish style with starry sky.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, arched dial with moon, engraved and silvered centre, seconds on higher part of dial and date dial engraved on lower; moons age engraved on arch; Rococo spandrels. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, arched with separate date circle in arch, matted centre, interim markings, inside markings on chapter ring, outside banded, minute circle, minute numbers medium size, diamonds between; separate seconds ring; curious wedge-shaped aperture for silvered engraved days of week.
Painted edge, penny moon. Poor quality, crude painting with one black face (Bob Baxter, Southport).
Main dial: cottages top, house with tower bottom, painted ruins in distance. Very thin paint. Hemispheres: humps.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with Adam and Eve in breakarch. Dial breakarch cut out similar to Gill dial: painting of Garden of Eden background somewhat similar but figures better done. Both arms to move as well as shaped serpent going around tree.
Main dial: eight-day breakarch, three-train, greyed off-white background, no décor.
Iron moon. Moon scenes: sailing ship; church with tombstones.
Main dial: nice dial, could have been made by a number of dial makers (Walker and Hughes or Finnemore). Tiny Arabis minutes, gold flowers corners and breakarch. Unfortunately this clock was stolen.
Main dial: auriculas and morning glory in corners; gold band, shells and flowers.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Moon scenes: sailing ship; house with tower.
Moon scenes: landscape with people.
Painted edge moon dial from brass dial clock at Speke Hall (Eric Gent). Dark blue background with stars.
Painted edge moon dial from brass dial clock at Speke Hall (Eric Gent). Dark blue background with stars.
Main dial: false moon; cream background; grapes, gold flowers and anemone corners; gold flowers and anemone centre.
Main dial: pseudo-Oriental oddity, painted on brass. Does not look like Birmingham work.
Main dial: eight-day square dial two-train, silvered and engraved centre, large date aperture, seconds on dial, head and foliage spandrels. Date dial made from much older clock brass.
Main dial: 30-hour, engraved and matted centre, large round ended date aperture, inner markings to chapter ring, interim markings, urn spandrels. Case looks rather primitive, Welsh style.
Moon faces: pale faced. Moon scenes: sailing ship, building with tower.
Main dial: gold shells and seaweed in corners, with rose-coloured framing.
Main dial: sheep with lambs corners, the Incredulity of St Thomas in breakarch. Well painted, in Walker-Hughes style.
Main dial: two-train complicated clock with date, month, etc. Similar to Bath Pump Room Clock.
Main dial: crude colours and painting of cottages and abbeys corners; cottage in arch.
Main dial: breakarch moon, gold leaf background to pink rose and blue auriculas corners. Hemispheres: maps. Large dial.
Main dial: bright roses and strawberry corners; moss roses centre.
Main dial: fat pink roses corners with small primulas, rather crude; Hamlet on stage in breakarch.
The only example of signed brass dial bracket clock painted decoration: Artist Grimaldi, well-known London painter, signature untouched, seen here.