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Includes typewritten letter, a newspaper cutting with an article on the restoration of the tower, its English translations (handwritten and typed), and a photograph.

Original article about an 18th–century long–case clock from Hazlemere from Collect (June 2002), p. 43.

4 b/w photographs, captioned in English. File also includes a typescript letter from the museum director and a seemingly unrelated postcard, written in French, from Musee du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 3 (July/August 1988), pp. 53–54.

9 b/w captioned photographs and 4 postcards. Also includes handwritten notes.

Includes correspondence, copies of eighteenth-century newspapers, newspaper articles, sales brochures, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.

Includes correspondence, copies of watch databases, transcripts and copies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers, photocopies of journal articles, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.

Original article about watchmaking precision and automation from The Engineer (18 June 1981), pp. 35–39.

Album containing the complete series of 25 cards. Purchased from The Good Olde Days shop in Brighton. Also includes a letter from the seller, a photocopy of "An Unusual Collection", an article about the cigarette cards published in Antique Clocks vol. 11 no. 10 (March 1989), and of a press cutting about books on sundials.

Complete series of 25 cards, duplicates of those in the album.

Printed. Lot 115 in the auction of fine watches, clocks and scientific instruments on 4 October 1977.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1967), pp. 65–66.

Copy of an article published in The Illustrated London News.

Includes typewritten and printed versions of an article on "The Wells Clock" and six photographic postcards.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1948), p. 20.

Photocopy of a section of the "Industries" chapter of A History of the County of Lancaster, ed. By William Farrer and J. Brownbill (The Victoria History of the Counties of England series, 1908), pp. 366–367.

Original article from Knowledge (5 June 1885), pp. 480–481, 498–500, 522–523.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (October 1952), no pagination.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (April 1958), pp. 53–60.

Original article about watch development in fashion, from the "Shopping" section of The Times (5 November 1988).

Includes "The Accutron: the world's first electronic watch" (Horological Journal 1961), typescript of "The watch of to-morrow", list of the Horstmann collection of antique watches, and two photographs.

Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 9 no. 4 (April 1974), pp. 6 and 18–19.

Originally untitled, this file contains correspondence, photographs, postcards, notes, catalogue extracts etc. mainly relating to various clocks and watches and their sales. Includes: Delander watch no. 298; a spring balance clock and alarm in a solid rosewood case delivered to the Duke of Leinster in 1826; month–going longcase clock by David Lestourgeon; striking bracket clock by Edward East; Tompion longcase clock.

Original article from Discovering Antiques (1971), p. 6. Also includes "Day to day care of antique furniture" by Dennis Young, pp. 4–5.

Includes Ray-o-Vac, Duracell, Seiko, Renata, Exide, etc. Most undated. Includes an article from an unidentified publication, in French and English, on watch batteries, no. 403 of Southern Watch and Clock Supplies Ltd News, and a photocopy of the United States Patent Office patent for alkaline dry cell (1951).

Names include Thomas Herbert, Joseph Autram, Richard Vick, Francis Robinson, Thomas Cartwright, Benjamin Gray, George Lindsay, John Ellicot, Benjamin Vulliamy, and Thomas Mudge. Includes a few pages at back on earlier sources.

Names include mainly Thomas Herbert, but also Mansell Bennett, Thomas Tompion and Joseph Antram.

Names include David Ramsay, William Partridge, Edward East, Thomas Tompion and others.

Includes note on sources and abbreviations. Names include Nicholas Kratzer, Anthony Crasillon, Sebastian (Bastian) Lesseney (Lesney / Le Sene) , Nicholas Urseau, Peter Dellamere, Bartholomew Newsam, Randolph Bull and others.

Original articles about Tony Clements and novel clocks from Cambridge Evening News: The Magazine (26 October 2002), pp. 11–13. Includes issue cover.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 8 no. 11 (March 1974), pp. 33–35.

Printed and typescript, some handwritten.

Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.

Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.

Includes correspondence, handwritten notes and photographs of various Vulliamy clocks sold at different auctions, photocopies of sales catalogue pages, a photocopy of Thomas Reid's letter to B.L. Vulliamy of 1822, and Charles Allix's article "A mid-18th century alarm by Gray and Vulliamy" (Antiquarian Horology, Spring 1994).

Original article from Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques (October 1990), pp. 226–237. Includes issue cover.

Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 29 (n.d.), pp. 688–692.

Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.

Contains a list of all exhibits.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 58–59.

Original binder label states the date as "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 6 October 1979.

Original article from Practical Woodworking (November 1989), pp. 16–21.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1980), pp. 47–50.

Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1914), pp. 157–160.

Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present

Also includes handwritten card.

Also includes price list and a fax message from Grahame Brooks to Caroline Kemp of Time Products regarding his article on the Geneva Seal.

Handwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting on the re-opening of V&A's Jewellery gallery, and a catalogue of V&A jewellery lantern slides.

Includes letters, order forms, rules for ordering and sale of photographs, and two photographs.

Handwritten. Also includes a typescript letter from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, regarding Dr Ward's request for a photograph (not included), and the Museum's postcard showing a Roman vertical disc dial c.250 AD.

Also includes correspondence and photocopy promotional materials.

Original article about a watch and chatelaine from the Devonshire Collection, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1980), p. 98. Includes issue cover.

Original article from Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. 33 (16 April 1885), pp. 182–189.

Reprint from La Montre Suisse vol. 44 no. 21 (1971).

Includes "The Time Trilogy" of astronomy-related watches ("Astrolabium Galileo Galilei", "Planetarium Copernicus" and "Tellurium Johannes Kepler"), "Perpetual Ludwig", "Jaquemart" minute repeater, "Hourstriker Sonnierie En Passant" (including the "Erotica" version), marine chronometer "1846", "San Marco" chronometers (including ones with enamel cloisonne dials), "GMT +-", "Chronospilt Berlin", "Chronograph", "Sandhurst", "Skeleton", Michelangelo" and "San Marco Alarm" watches.

Includes a typewritten letter and article "Die Ulmer Rathausuhr: Ein handwelkliches Meisterstück deutscher Renaissencekunst von Albrecht Rieber", and a photograph. Also includes a letter from the mayor of Olomuc, Czechoslovakia, regarding a booklet on the Olomuc town hall clock (the booklet is not included).

Copy of an article published in Mat. Med. Nordm. vol 23.

Original article from Antique Collecting (December 1995/January 1996), pp. 21.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (December 1956), pp. 51–58.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1966), pp. 70–72.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1951), pp. 17–18. Mentions Adam's bird–cage clock.

John Travers (1849–1937) was a marine chronometer escapement maker based in Ramsgate. File includes Travers' original correspondence; press cuttings relating to the Travers family; John Travers' obituary published in The Horological Journal (1938); notes and correspondence relating to his chronometer-fusee engine, and photographs.

Handwritten, made by Eileen Bunt. The original book was donated to Guildhall Library on the death of its owner and is held there under ref. CLC/B/227/MS23726/001.

Original volume, 445 pages. Full title: Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (London). Includes chapters on: Premiums offered in 1799, Papers in agriculture, Papers in polite arts, Papers in Mechanicks, Paper in colonies and trade, Rewards bestowed, Presents received, Catalogue of models and machines, List of officers, List of members, and Index.

Contains annotated tracing.

Includes correspondence with the Science Museum and other institutions and individuals; copies of the article on "Some Notes on the History of Machine Watchmaking" by Prof. D.S. Torrens (1947); extracts from sales catalogues; notes and correspondence relating to clockmaking tools, and photographs.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 7 (December 1988), p. 50.

2007 reprint of 2002 edition.

With multilingual introduction.

Includes related correspondence.

Original article about French clocks from Art & Antiques (20 October 1973), pp. 14–17.

Original article about the Habsburg auction of Breguet watches, from The Antique Collector (April 1991), pp. 26–31.

Original article from Country Life (26 January 1978), pp. 199–201.

Loose copy of an article published in two parts in Wireless World.

Original article about carriage clocks from Art and Antiques (21 September and 1 October 1981), pp. 22–24.

Original article from Art & Antiques (16 October 1976), pp. 24–26.

Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs and related correspondence.

Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.

Features timepieces by Piaget, Franck Mueller, Alain Silberstein, Vacheron Constantin, Breguet, Audemars Piguet, Judith Leiber and Blancpain.

Two copies of an original article about price rises of antique clocks from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), p. 88.

Gives fair dates for 2000.

Original article about clocks at Zaanse Schans museum from Holland Herald, vol. 12 no. 2 (1977), pp. 33–35.

Original article about the history of French clocks from Discovering Antiques no. 28 (n.d.), pp. 664–667.

Original article from the Collecting section of The Sunday Times Magazine (1 October 1989).

Original article about tavern clocks, better known as Acts of Parliament clocks, from Art & Antiques Weekly (3 February 1973), pp. 28–30. Also includes issue cover.

Original article from The Meccano Magazine, vol. 44 no. 1 (December 1959), pp. 560–561.

Special issue about watches and their sales, two copies.

Photocopy of an article from New Scientist (10 February 1996), p. 45. Also includes "The decimal time system" chart.