I wonder if anyone can help with dating or identifying this wooden framed wall-clock. It has a pewter dial with silvered? numbers.

The weights are clearly wrong... stolen form a cuckoo clock at some point, by the look of them.
A similar clock, with a rear wooden panel, rectangular with a semi-circular arch has been spotted in Robert Burns (the poet's) Cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland.

I can't help you but I did find this:LINK

Robert Burns’ pocket watch sells for £40,000 at auction
The watch, a gift to Burns from his long-suffering wife, led the auction at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh



A silver pocket watch once owned by Scotland’s greatest poet Robert Burns has sold at auction for more than 20 times its estimate.

The watch was offered by Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull, with a pres-sale estimate of £1,500 - £2,500, but soared to a final price of £39,650.

Lyon & Turnbull confirmed there had been interest in the watch from a number of international bidders, but stated that the successful bidder wished to remain anonymous.

Dating from 1786, the pocket watch was a gift to Burns from his wife Jean Armour – known as the ‘Belle of Mauchline’. The watch was engraved with the inscription ‘Robt Burns Mauchline 1786’, and included a hand-crafted paper insert inside the case featuring the couple’s initials beneath two love birds.

“It is a lovely item,” spokesman Phil Gregory told The Scotsman prior to the sale. “This was from London, which is quite an extravagance, as they could have easily had one made in Edinburgh. But we know that they went all the way down to the city to have this one made by a really good watchmaker, so it is obviously a very special gift.”

The watch was consigned by an anonymous private collector, and was hailed as a major discovery by experts.

“It’s very exciting that this watch has surfaced,” said Murdo Morrison, spokesman for the Robert Burns World Federation. “Our hope would be if it’s sold it will be well looked after by whoever buys it, and that it would remain in Scotland.”
“Jean Armour was a very special woman, who forgave Burns on more than one occasion when most women would have told him where to go.”

Burns and Armour endured a turbulent relationship, which included the poet’s numerous infidelities and an attempt by Armour’s father to have him arrested. James Armour disapproved of the relationship, at one point disowning his daughter and leaving her destitute. He later changed his mind about Burns when he began to find success as a poet, and finally allowed his consent for the pair to marry.

The couple had nine children together, several of which were born out of wedlock before they were married in 1788. Three of the children survived into adulthood, and Armour herself survived her husband by 38 years.

She lived to see his name become celebrated around the world, and her financial plight after his death led to a public outcry and a charitable fund to provide for her and the children. Armour died in 1834, and was buried together with her husband in a specially-constructed mausoleum.

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Thanks very much for the interesting information, Lorne!