DIAL OF LONG PENDULUM CLOCK.
With single weight for going and striking trains. Spandrel ornaments finely cut and chased, representing the Four Seasons.

ENLARGEMENT OF DIAL.
Showing maker's name, "Jos. Gibson, Ecclefechan."
About 1750.

(By courtesy of Edward Campbell, Esq., Glasgow.)

WALL CLOCK.
Maker, George Graydon (Dublin). Date, about 1796.
With marquetry design showing volunteer in uniform, with G.R. on his cartouche box.
(At the National Museum, Dublin.)

An interesting clock with the maker's name, Jos. Gibson, Ecclefechan, is illustrated (p. [267]). It has a long pendulum and single weight for striking and going trains. The spandrels are finely cut and chased and represent the four seasons. This is a feature found on Dutch dials. In date this is about 1750. The enlargement of the dial (p. [267]) shows that the engraver went wrong in his spacing. He had to put the last letter above the others. Indeed, it suggests that another hand than that which engraved the decoration and the name of the maker contributed the place. It is somewhat puzzling, and leads to conjecture as to its history. It is just such examples, out of the main stream of leading makers, which so often provide exceptional interest to the collector.