Main dial: blue-grey; simpering ladies, four seasons gesso-framed corners; shepherdess dial centre. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator.
Two dials. Left main dial: blue-grey; gesso corners somewhat similar to Holmes Pendle, very early. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: low oval with gesso and shepherdess, fleur-de-lys interim markings; vetch and anemone corners, usual Wilson framing.
Main dial: very blue base paint; strawberry and vetch gesso-framed corners; soldier in red jacket with flintlock musket in high oval, bluebells either side.
Moon faces: pleasant. Moon scenes: ship at sea, very nice and detailed; church and view, nice moon detail.
Main dial: blue-grey; gilded gesso corners; transfer print around name.
Main dial: three-train with musical automata. I only did over breakarch, no sign of name, rare piece.
Main dial: blue-grey; honeysuckle and vetch corners; moss roses in centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey; ranunculus at bottom, carnations at top gesso corners; birds in centre. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: pleasant. Moon scenes: ship at sea; small building, large tower.
Main dial: cherries and honeysuckle corners; dianthus centre. Hemispheres: maps, nearly all gone.
Main dial: pale blue-grey; with floral corners. Hemispheres: reversed.
Moon faces: very serious, pursed up, small mouth. Moon scenes: large ship in rough seas; landscape with house and river, pink in sky.
Main dial: blue/grey pink roses and pale auriculas, gesso-framed corners, lead plug in centre of seconds hole, urn with roses painted on top. False plate: CA with false winding square attached.
Moon faces: smiling. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with yellow tree, church in distance.
Images of dials made by Samuel Baker and Samuel Baker & Son, Birmingham dial makers active around 1826–50.
Main dial: peaches and gold band corners, maps.
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 with feathers. Hemispheres: gold dove of peace, gold scalloped edges, humps.
Main dial: some gold geometric corners, gold leaf heavy shells centre, odd checkerboard gold leaf black equator. Hemispheres: blodgy maps.
Main dial: gold flowers, black outlines. False plate: stamped sheet iron.
Main dial: geometric corners with oval, dull colours.
Images of dials made by Burgess Hartley, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1810s and 1820s.
Main dial: blue-grey off-white, peaches and anemones in corners, four-arts corners, "Trade" in breakarch.
Main dial: blue-grey, tulip and semidouble rose in corners, odd birds with willow branch dial centre. Hemispheres: distinctive maps, same as Ashwin, flowers overlap maps.
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.
Main dial: blue-grey, scythe and hourglass corners in red and blue, complicated scrolling in breakarch, vignette with Cybele, mother goddess of Phrygia, elaborate gesso framing, gilded winding hole.
Main dial: blue-grey, gesso circles with motif in middle, mid-green with dots around this, gesso dot-framed corners, girl with wineglass in high oval, elaborate gesso scrolling either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: gold and Prussian blue flowers corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Main dial: green background, fruit in gold cornucopias corner; gold doves with rays and gold edges humps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
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.
Main dial: pink roses in gold corners; Clive of India in breakarch.
Main dial: shells in gold corners; gold birds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: turquoise background to corners with peaches; two birds centre. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
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.
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: 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.
Moon faces: heavy-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, dreary expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; very pointed church ruin.
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.
Main dial: automata rocking swan; pale blue background to corners with wild flower, swan on arch. Crude painting, thin ground paint, name obliterated. False plate: sheet iron, stamped.
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: 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: baskets of flowers in rounds corners; two birds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: quite round-eyed, red cheeked and red-nosed, quite cheerful. Moon scenes: ship at sea; wooden windmill on bluff.
Main dial: four seasons, boy with scythe in breakarch; not many seen. False plate: cast iron.
Images of dials made by Wright & Company, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1800s–1820s.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off-white, convolvulous corners with primulas; farm scene breakarch.
Main dial: ruins in corners; two ships at sea breakarch.
Main dial: turquoise corners with fat pink and yellow roses; bird in centre.
This series contains index cards compiled by Frances Tennant as the original finding aids for her slides collection. Used in creating this catalogue, they contain some extra information about the dials, such as their graphics and condition when received.
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
This collection comprises over 2,000 framed 35mm colour slides with images of clock dials made mainly but not exclusively by Birmingham makers, taken by Frances Tennant. It also includes four boxes of index cards compiled by her, which were the original finding aids and which have been used in the compilation of this catalogue. The occasionally quirky descriptions of the dials are Frances Tennant's own.
Sans titreOriginal binder label says "August 1993", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 25 October 1993.
Includes catalogues for summer/autumn 1981, winter 1989 and an undated one, which refers to Milo Mighell's 28 years in the business [c.1996].
A good striking dial clock by these well-known makers, the movement signed, numbered and dated.
A fine, early, one piece carriage clock with countwheel strike on a bell.
A good London mahogany longcase with pagoda top and arch brass dial with moonwork.
An early Viennese regulator in a case exceptionally high quality and elegance and with grande sonnerie movement of 8 days duration.
A good, small, inlaid mahogany timepiece.
A verge bracket clock in a small, bell-top case decorated with chinoiserie on a finely faded, red ground.
A very fine and exceptionally small ebonised bracket clock by this noted partnership.
A mahogany, banjo, clock barometer of the highest quality.
A London mahogany longcase of the highest quality.
A good, ebony veneered bracket clock by this maker of great repute, with ormolu mounted case, verge escapement and quarter repeating on six bells.
A good regency trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial.
[With original case].
A fine and early, round-top, inlaid mahogany wheel barometer.
A very fine and exceptionally small mahogany longcase.
A very fine London mahogany longcase clock of the highest quality and in exceptional condition.
A fine and small, late seventeenth-century timepiece / alarm lantern with verge escapement and in exceptional condition.
A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered brass dial.
A very fine East Anglian longcase in oak and mahogany of best "London" quality
An elegant Vienna timepiece in a cherry wood case and with one-piece dial and cast "pie-crust" bezel.
A fine, large bracket clock decorated with chinoiserie on a red ground and with arched brass dial with two subsidiary dials.
A fine and small ebony-veneered timepiece with pull quarter repeat by this well-known maker.
A rare Regency striking trunk dial wall clock with engraved silvered dial.
[An unusual clock in a painted porcelain case.]
[An unusual clock in an engraved oval case.]
A longcase clock with 12-inch square dial in a walnut case of very good colour and figuring.
A good Regency mahogany bracket clock with rise and fall regulation and strike/silent.
A fine, small and very rare Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece in a "banjo" case with chinoiserie decoration by this famous maker.
A fine and small, repeating mantel clock in an ebonised case by this well-known maker.