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ALL/01/008
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Hobson: correspondence with and regarding Charles Hobson
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- 1979–1988 (Creation)
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1 folder of loose papers
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(1921–2015)
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Charles Hobson (1907–88) was a clockmaker and a honorary freeman of the Clockmakers' Company. File includes C. Alix's correspondence with Hobson; correspondence with Daniel Parkes regarding Hobson's Choice, a book of sketches of English bracket clock repeating work by Hobson, Allix and Harvey (1982); published reviews of Hobson's Choice; notes; copy of certificate of registration of Hobson Bros; photocopies of Hobson's letter to Col. Quill regarding his will; and an obituary of Hobson, published in Antiquarian Horology (Spring 1988).
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English