Chats on Old Clocks. Arthur Hayden

of old clocks, has kindly enabled me to reproduce one of his examples. To Herbert Bolton, Esq., of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, I am indebted for the inclusion of a fine specimen in that collection.

      I desire especially to record the generous aid I have had from Percy Webster, Esq., of Great Portland Street, London, who is well known as a connoisseur of old clocks, and from his son, Malcolm R. Webster, Esq., who have given me practical assistance in regard to verifying facts from actual examples.

      To Thomas Rennie, Esq., of the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, I desire to record thanks. To Edward Campbell, Esq., of Glasgow, who has enriched my volume with examples of Scottish work in his collection, I am indebted for information regarding Scottish makers embodied in this volume.

      I am, by the kindness of John Smith, Esq., of Edinburgh, author of Old Scottish Clockmakers, and of his publisher, William J. Hay, Esq., John Knox's House, Edinburgh, enabled to produce names and dates of certain Scottish makers not recorded elsewhere. In this connection my friend William R. Miller, Esq., of Leith, has spared no time to help me to do justice to Scottish makers, and I am especially grateful to him for his kindly enthusiasm. He was there at the "chap o' the knok" when I asked his help.

      Westropp Dudley, Esq., of the National Museum, Dublin, has extended to me his courtesy in enabling the inclusion of Irish makers coming under his research. To Arthur Deane, Esq., of the Public Art Gallery and Museum, Belfast, I am similarly obliged for data relative to old Belfast clockmakers.

      To the many friends who have during an extended period generously supplemented my own studies by supplying me with data in regard to provincial makers and other hitherto unelucidated matters, I wish to offer my cordial thanks.

      To my readers in general, whether they be collectors of old English china or earthenware, of furniture, or of prints, or of old silver, I desire to record my appreciation of their kindness in regard to my volumes on these subjects. I have honestly endeavoured to treat each sub-head concerning the evolution of design in the English home with sane reasoning, and I trust with ripe judgment. I have assiduously collected facts and studiously attempted to marshal them, each by each, according to relative value. Popular my volumes may be, but it is my hope that they may contribute something of permanent value to the subjects with which they deal.

      ARTHUR HAYDEN.

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Brass Lantern Clock by John Bushman, 1680	Frontispiece
Chapter II.—The Brass Lantern Clock
Ship's Lantern of Silver (Danish)	47
Early Lantern Clock by Bartholomew Newsam	47
Seventeenth-century Brass Clocks, showing pendulum at front and at back	51
Brass Lantern Clock by Daniel Quare, 1660	55
" " " with two hands and anchor pendulum	55
" " " with long pendulum, chains and weights	57
" " " by Thomas Tompion (1671-1713)	61
Chapter III.—The Long-case Clock— the Period of Veneer and Marquetry
Long-case Clock. Maker, Jas. Leicester	75
" " " by J. Windmills, c. 1705	77
" " " enlargement of dial	77
" " " by Henry Harper (1690-5)	81
" " " by Martin (London), 1710	85
" " " in marquetry, "all over" style	87
Chest of Drawers (William and Mary period), showing use of marquetry clock panel	93-5
Chapter IV.—The Long-case Clock—the Period of Lacquer
Long-case Clock by Joseph Dudds (1766-82)	115
" " " by Kenneth Maclennan (1760-80)	117
Inn Clock by John Grant (Fleet Street), c. 1785	125
Chapter V.—The Long-case Clock—the Georgian Period
Long-case Clock by Henderson, c. 1770	133
" " " by Thomas Wagstaff, c. 1780	137
" " " by Stephen Rimbault, case by Robert Adam, c. 1775	139
Musical Long-case Clock (top portion)	143
Long-case Clock by James Hatton (1800-12)	145
Regulator Long-case Clock by Robert Molyneux & Sons (1825)	149
Enlargement of dial	149
Chapter VI.—The Evolution of the Long-case Clock
Brass Dial by Henry Massy, c. 1680	159
" " by John Draper, c. 1703	159
Enlargements of Dials by John Bushman and Henry Massy	163
English Wood-carving, Cherub's Head (seventeenth century)	167