Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial gift for maker There are a few lighter

There are a few lighter striations on one side of the back

He took note of the "v" insignias on the sleeves of both men's frock coats

The molded glass shows one large and some scattered small bubbles here and there

and orange next to their toes and tails

it's holding up and on just fine

Fred Lant's 1898 Hand-carved Folk Art Clock Dial gift for maker There are a few lighterI've always got an eye out for folk art clock dials like this, which I believe would have been used for teaching learning how to read time on a clock. I love the simple earnestness of this one, and that it is shaped like the silhouette of a house, and especially those cut tin hands of the dial, the elongated form of which I think lends a certain elegance and grace to the whole thing. The roman numerals of the dial appear to have been incised then