Main dial: dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love, or life; motto "Timeflyes, pursue it man" in breakarch. Moon looks 1800 style, Manchester-style maps.
Main dial: roses, strawberry, dianthus, cherry framed corners; birds in centre; gilded winding holes, brass moon. Dreadful condition, was found in abandoned house.
Main dial: four seasons, pink background corners, gesso framed; gesso flowers dial centre; hand-done funny maps, stub foot on moon, long feet on dial.
Main dial: lots of fancy gold; moon has date on dial; blue-faced moon.
Main dial: lots of fancy gold; moon has date on dial; blue-faced moon.
Main dial: gilded gesso minute dots every ten minutes; gilded winding holes; no other decoration.
Main dial: small gold motif corners with some gesso dots.
Main dial: yellow and black, gold corner motifs, thin plate. False plate: sheet iron, unmarked.
Main dial: no decoration.
Main dial: geometric corners with gold and sgraffitio in red long feet.
Main dial: blue grey, gold shells corners; Nelson in breakarch. Unrestored.
Main dial: another complete repaint, early 1840s watercolour-style flowers.
Main dial: name small, bad surface, green corners with flared tulips, fan flowers and gold.
Main dial: crude painting, lady in green with huge hat in breakarch, typical corners gold, reverse date dial markings on dial. False plate: three long feet.
Main dial: gold centre band, lady and lion with donkey breakarch.
Main dial: scenic corners, abbeys and houses with red roofs corners, farm scene breakarch.
Moon faces: pursed lips, pop-eyed. Moon scenes: house with tower; cottage.
Moon is original crude painting, unusual strong sky and clouds.
Very poor condition. Moon faces: slightly pop-eyed. Moon scenes: house by lake; mill [?] by stream.
Moon faces: serious, purse lips. Moon scenes: ship at sea; buildings by lake and waterfall, nice painting.
Main dial: pretty ladies, very nice, false winding holes, lots of gold leaf, birds centre.
Main dial: 1830-style silver leaf and Prussian blue corners with fans; girl in oval breakarch, odd tulips in breakarch; roses in centre. No false plate.
Main dial: gloved four-season ladies. Hemispheres: cut-off maps, Halifax type.
Main dial: had been scrapped so I repainted it in Halifax style. Moon is original crude painting, unusual strong sky and clouds. Hemispheres: Halifax type, maps put on.
Main dial: green gold floral corners, birds centre, date aperture. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: large tulips corners, very fat roses; long tailed bird centre, Japanese style; gold birds in humps. False plate: brass moon on stub foot.
Main dial: orange and green corners, gold band roses. Hemispheres: upside-down maps.
Main dial: orange and green corners, gold band roses. Hemispheres: upside-down maps.
Main dial: Scottish dancing breakarch, lots of luminous paint.
Main dial: luminous paint; four-seasons corners; "The Lovers" breakarch.
Main dial: sgraffito corners with gold fan; flowers and bird breakarch. Complete strip and repaint.
Main dial: all gesso corners, diamonds and scrolls; decorated widning holes.
Main dial: strawberry and rose gesso-framed corners; very decorated winding holes, very fine dial.
Main dial: Dublin-style gesso had been painted red. Bad, heavy, repainted graphics, terrible surface full of holes.
Main dial: no decoration, grommets used.
Main dial: eight-day arched gilt dots around winding holes; all gesso corners; honeysuckle in arch with gesso circle. Photographed in Dublin.
Main dial: two-train square dial; matted and fancy engraved centre; cherub and crown spandrels.
Main dial: two-train square dial; matted and fancy engraved centre; cherub and crown spandrels.
Main dial: cottage centre, floral and geometric corners.
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, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: cottages corners; large abbey in breakarch; centre had to be cut out and redone.
Main dial: boy with dog in breakarch, some gold in corners, generally bright corners. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: boy with dog in breakarch, some gold in corners, generally bright corners. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: houses with tower and water corner, small border, breakarch large house with pillared front in breakarch; boy, dog and people in foreground. Cheerful dial.
Main dial: off-white pink background, flared tulips, gold; hunting scene in breakarch with dog and snipe, white borders.
Main dial: ruined abbeys corners; Swiss lakeside scene breakarch. All well painted.
Main dial: silly sheep corners, mumpish shepherdess in breakarch. Centre cut out, bad flaking, poor quality.
Main dial: well-painted dead birds in corners; seated hunter and dog breakarch. Nice dial.
Main dial: all different abbeys corners; Loch Katrine breakarch. All very well painted.
Iron moon with starry sky.
Brass moon dial. Moon faces: gold leaf.
Moon faces: round-eyed, red noses and cheeks, pleasant expression. Moon scenes: not too large ship at sea; red-roofed building view in distance. Well painted.
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: Justice, Medicine, Art and Commerce corners.
Main dial: roses and strawberry corners; square-ended date aperture.
Main dial: false moon; cream background; grapes, gold flowers and anemone corners; gold flowers and anemone centre.
Main dial: four-seasons fashionable ladies corners. Hemispheres: strange maps, similar to transfer. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-seasons fashionable ladies corners. Hemispheres: strange maps, similar to transfer. False plate: cast iron.
Brass moon dial. Main dial: gold leaf shells in corners with seaweed effect. Hemispheres: unusual maps. False plate: cast iron, unmarked; an Osborne false plate, late pattern, fits the dial exactly.
A very bad case of stress cracking from painted dial longcase clock; Frances Tennant made a replacement.
Silvered edge moon dial with tidal numbers. Rather crude simplistic painting with man fishing on one landscape, man shooting on other.
Moon scenes: sailing ship; field landscape. New moon made.
Main dial: roses top, strawberry bottom, all with small blue flowers.
Main dial: gold cornucopias, roses and morning glories; funny long-necked bird centre.
Main dial: cream background, pink and blue corners; gold flower centre, flowers on end of date aperture.
Main dial: gold shells in pink frame on gold background with lines corners. Poor graphics.
Main dial: blue flowers corners; one bird centre. Difficult to date (lots of Wellses at Shipton). This slide has not been digitised.
Main dial: abbey ruins corners, thin paint.
Main dial: castles with water corners; centre complete repaint; date aperture. False plate: Wilson.
Main dial: cottages and haystacks corners, thin paint.
Main dial: pink and blue morning glory corners, green plaid ends.
Main dial: Paisley-style corners, very bright cream background; large motif dial centre. All very unusual.
Main dial: funny shells corners, yellow ochre band.
Main dial: gold shells and seaweed in corners, with rose-coloured framing.
Main dial: cottages and old towers corners, bottom ones have bridge. Thin paint.
Main dial: roses and garland around centre. Has been restored.
Main dial: L-shaped framing for gold auriculas.
Main dial: very bright shells corners; bright bird centre.
Main dial: eight-day, cream background, anemone and gold flowers corners, morning glory and gold flowers dial centre.
Main dial: square-towered churches corners; church with sheep 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: L-shaped bright borders, pink and blue flowers with fruit corners; gold flowers dial centre.
Main dial: auriculas and morning glory in corners; gold band, shells and flowers.
Main dial: shells rather crude, some bronze powder paint.
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: orange background to roses corners, shells and flowers.
Main dial: shells and flowers; green background to morning glory corners; black ends to corner with white flowers. Good design.
Main dial: small modified fans corners, shells on green background, yellow triangles, all very bright.
Main dial: pink background to white flower, orange and gold rest of corner. Unusual.
Main dial: houses with ruins corners. Thin paint.
Main dial: bright roses and strawberry corners; moss roses centre.
Main dial: round dial, all gold repaint. Very elaborate, name very small at bottom.
Main dial: square-ended date aperture; red rose and small blue flowers centre. Badly damaged by flame or chemical.
Main dial: either thirty-hour or back wind for shop. False plate: not noted.
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.