| Maker | Height | Width of Body | Dial | Special Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Burgess de Wigan | 6′ 11″ | 12½″ | 11½″ | Oak; square edged body, hand cut heavy brass hands, quaint fret, iron strap hinges.—Circa 1690. |
| Philip Smith Barton | 6′ 8½″ | 12½″ | 12″ | Oak; square edged body; artistic fret, early brass hinges.—Circa 1700. |
| Phillips Ludlow | 6′ 9″ | 12½″ | 12″ | Oak; square edged body; carved “fret.”—Circa 1710. |
| Pennington Ince | 6′ 11″ | 13″ | 12″ | Oak; square edged body, fluted oak pillars to head which is fitted with side lights; pollard oak bands to doors and panel; carved “fret.”—Circa 1720. |
| T. Helm Ormskirk | 6′ 11″ | 13½″ | 12″ | Oak; door and panel banded with mahogany, rounded ask pilasters; painted “fret” design.—Circa 1760. |
| Bold Warrington | 7′ 4½″ | 14″ | 12″ | Oak; heavy case with oak back, mahogany band to doors with rounded mahogany pilasters, deeply cut well engraved dial; no “fret.”—Circa 1760. |
| Brown Liverpool | 7′ 10″ | 15″ | 13″ | Mahogany; “Chippendale,” fitted with side lights to hood, rounded pilasters.—Circa 1770. |
| Monks Prescott | 7′ 10″ | 16″ | 14″ | Mahogany; “Chippendale,” fluted pillars and pilasters.—Circa 1780. |
| Dial bears the legend: “As the time goes swift away, So does human life decay.” | ||||
| No name Enamelled dial | 7′ 11″ | 18″ | 14″ | Mahogany; “Sheraton,” fluted pillars and pilasters, satinwood inlay.—Circa 1790. |
| Pennington, Ince, 1720. | T. Helm, Ormskirk, 1760. | Bold, Warrington, 1760. |
Plate IV.
| Brown, Liverpool, 1770. | Monks, Prescott, 1780. | No name. (Enamelled Dial) 1790. |
Plate V.
So far as I know the nine clocks are genuine. I could find no trace of any material repair before I got them, and I have been most careful in the renovating which was necessary with some of them. I ought to explain in regard to “Phillips” that I fell in love with him in an auctioneer’s stock-room because his style seemed just to agree with my oak dresser and I bought him, although he was fitted with a 30-hour movement which was quite worn out. Having obtained the works of an old eight-days by buying a white dial in a case I cared nothing about, I had two holes drilled in “Phillips’” face and so converted him. It was a simple thing to do, as the centre of the dial is matted without engraving and the centres could be made anywhere to correspond with the requirements of the winding arrangements. This is an example of what may happen to old clocks when in the dealer’s hands. I have been in places where a number of old grandfathers have been in stock, and changing a good dial which would suit a better case was considered quite the proper thing to do, but consequently the grandfather would in future bear a wrong cognomen, while the case might be quite of a different date from that indicated by the maker’s name.
“Former Clock and Watch Makers,” by Britten, was my text-book for this department, and I must have given my friends the impression that I was an authority on horology, for on reflecting I find I purchased, selected, or had a hand in the choosing of about thirty grandfather clocks. Narrow cases and brass dials were my usual stipulations.