Vintage Dragonfly Wall Clock familiar-bat The moon has real craters

The moon has real craters

Good for someone who collects insect prints and pressed specimens

She wears a high lace collar and a thin chain

since the contrast does most of the work in low light

A huge orange moon fills the sky behind her

Vintage Dragonfly Wall Clock familiar-bat The moon has real cratersThe body runs down to six. A dragonfly is set dead centre with its four wings stretched out flat, the veining fine enough to read across the room and the membranes shading from teal to old gold. Its segmented body drops straight down the dial and finishes in a point near the bottom. Behind it a pale panel is ruled into faint squares like graph paper, and the outer face is mottled cream, rust and verdigris with heavy black Roman numerals over it. The