clocks were very popular across the generations; they kept the time on farms throughout France. Many Comtoise clocks can be found in France but they are also frequently found in Spain, Germany, and other parts of Europe, less in the United States. Many Comtoise clocks were also exported to other countries in Europe and even farther, to the Ottoman Empire and as far as Thailand. The metal mechanism was usually protected by a wooden sheath. Bornholm and Mora Bornholm clocks are Danish longcase clocks and were made on Bornholm from 1745 to 1900. In Sweden a special variety of longcase clocks was made in Mora, called Mora clocks. Bornholm clock-making began in the 1740s when an English ship, which had longcase clocks in its hold, was stranded. They were sent for repair to a turner named Poul Ottesen Arboe in Rønne and as a result of his repair of them he learned enough about clocks to begin to make his own. Historical manufacturers British John Alker or Alker of Wigan, Lancashire Allam & Clements Samuel Ashton, Ashbourne William Barrow, London Bilbie family, Somerset Thomas Birchall Nantwich, Cheshire Peter Bower, Redlynch, Wiltshire Joseph Bowles, Winbourne (i.e.: Wimbourne), Dorset; active 1791 Samuel Bowles, Wimbourne, Dorset Robert Bryson, Edinburgh William Bucknall, Burslem (Stoke-on-Trent) Thomas Bullock, Bath, Somerset Samuel Buxton, Diss, Norfolk John Calver, Woodbridge, Suffolk Thomas Cartwright John Clement & Son (Tring, Hertfordshire) Thomas Dobbie, Gorbals, Glasgow Richard Donisthorp (fl. 1797), of Loughborough Matthew & Thomas Dutton Peter Fearnley, Wigan John Fernhill, Wrexham Thomas Hackney, London, c. 1700–1750 Edward Harrison, Warrington John Harrison, Wakefield/Barrow upon Humber/London Nathaniel Hedge, Colchester, Essex Holmes James Howden, Edinburgh Thomas Husband, Hull Thomas Johnson John Knibb, Oxford and London Joseph Knibb, Oxford and London William Lassell (1758–1790), Toxteth Park, Liverpool Timothy Mason Gainsborough, Lincolnshire Alexander Miller, Montrose Peddie, Stirling, Scotland Daniel Quare Thomas Ross, Hull John Snelling, Alton John Trubshaw, London Warry, Bristol James Woolley Codnor Thomas Worswick, Lancaster Thomas Wright Henry Young, Swaffham, Norfolk John Wyld, Nottingham Stephen Harris, Tonbridge Irish W Egan & Sons, Cork Ezekiel Bullock, Lurgan Alexander Gordon, Dublin Finnish Masters of Könni Könnin mestarit (1757–1865), Ilmajoki Finnish Museum of Horology is master of Jaakko Könni manufactured table clocks and pocket watches Ilmajoki Museum is Masters of Könni manufactured horse vehicles, clocks, looms, locks, tools, machine of gear "keervärkki" Americans Ansonia Clock Company (1851–2006), Ansonia, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York Benjamin Bagnall (1689–1773), Boston