About the Cover

This months front cover features a dolphin lyre clock created by Edward H. Stone of Bowie, Maryland. Tom Moberg (featured with his wife Jan Moberg this month on page 606 in an article written by Arnie Van Tiem) painted the clock glass. Ed Stone writes the following about his clock, "The case is mahogany, 42" high by 12" wide by 4" deep. The movement is a Hemle 141-020. The finial is hand-carved clam shell containing a curled bottlenose dolphin with beak and tail flukes to the front. The opposed dolphins on the waist were adapted from a phonograph of the legs of an English table carved between 1730 and 1740. The reverse-painted glass depicts Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Vangard, as she sets sail in 1798 for Alexandria, Egypt, and the destruction of Napoleon's fleet in one of the greatest sea battles in history. The bracket at the bottom features Neptune's fork by stylized giant kelp fronds."

Photography by PRS Associates, Inc.