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TEN/B/01/00058
Title
Unknown maker: Automata dial / Clockmaker: John Stanyer, Chester, 1787–90
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- 1978 Nov (Creation)
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1 framed 35mm colour slide
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(1927–2018)
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Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with Adam and Eve automata in breakarch, engraved and silvered dial centre, with centre date on chapter ring, seconds on dial centre, Rococo spandrels. Crude painting of Adam and Eve, both arms to move and corkscrew serpent (brass) moves around the tree trunk; motto "O Man Except of No Thing that God Forbids" on breakarch.
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Slides 57 and 58 show the same dial.
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Archivist's note
Originally located in Drawer 1, section "Brass dials".