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Includes letters, a photographic postcard, and typewritten articles on "Compiegne (Oise): Hotel de Ville" and "La Bancloque de Compiegne".

Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur (September 1910 and January 1911), pp. 31–36 and 27–33 respectively.

Original advance copy of paper to be presented at a general meeting of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London on 19th December 1952. Published by the Institution.

Original article from the Journal of the Society of Arts (24 May 1878), pp. 608–620.

Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 38–41.

Original articles from Endeavour vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 28–32 and 23–27.

Includes an order form brochure for the book on Jens Olsen's astronomical world-clock by Otto Mortensen (1957), two photographic postcards and envelope.

Contains one sepia photograph, uncaptioned, loose.

Also includes notes. Map not included.

Includes typewritten obituary by L. Northcote, with list of work done by Hartley; handwritten notes and drafts for the obituary and the list; T.M. Hartley's outgoing letter book (1949–53); brochure and leaflet on John Smith & Sons (Midland Clock Works Derby Ltd); and related correspondence.

Mostly handwritten. Includes notes, sketches and calculations.

This series contains Lewis S. Northcote's correspondence on horological matters.

Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.

Also includes two b/w photographs.

Includes annotated typescript of "The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-beat Escapement" by Derek Howse, an article published in Antiquarian Horology (December 1970); pages from the Horological Journal (October 1962) on Tompion pallets; and Northcote's correspondence with Howse, with notes and sketches.

Includes newspaper cuttings about clock and watch sales.

Typescript. Also includes four drawings.

Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1974), pp. 34–44.

Original article from The Connoisseur Year Book (1956), pp. 22–26.

Two copies of an original article from The Antique Collector (August 1979), pp. 72–74.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1976), pp. 74–76.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1954), pp. 35–36.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 35 no. 137 (January 1913), pp. 27–32.

Original article from The Connoisseur (1922), pp. 75–78.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1949), pp. 30–32.

13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.

Original pages 53 and 403 from The Connoisseur, vol. 35 no. 137 (January 1913).

File of loose cuttings and pages from illustrated magazines, journals, bulletins and auction catalogues. Includes photographs.

A very fine and well-proportioned "Dachluhr" or rooftop timepiece in a strung, mahogany case.

Original article about the history and techniques of ormolu, the practice of gilding metal, from The Antique Collector (July 1980), pp. 60–63.

6 b/w photographs, captioned.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1948), pp. 33–35.

This collection comprises mainly glass plate and film negatives of early English clocks, clock inscriptions and clockmakers’ portraits, collected by Percy G. Dawson. Many have been used in his books.

Original article about Dragon 32 software which "turns your Dragon into a calendar", from Personal Computing Today (September 1983), pp. 33–36.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1950), pp. 15–17.

Original article from The Antique Collector (November 1987), pp. 106–111.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1954), pp. 29–31.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 39 no. 3 (October 1985), pp. 90–92. Also includes Round the dealers, a selection of clocks from dealers' showrooms.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 191–192. Annotated '82'.

Printed.

Original article from Engineering Materials and Design, vol. 17 no. 2 (February 1973), pp. 19–21. Includes issue cover and contents page.

19 b/w photographs, captioned.

Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1955), pp. 165–171.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1959), pp. 32–34.

A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered brass dial.

A rare and early mahogany trunk dial with 14-inch flat wood dial.

A very distinctive mahogany trunk dial with convex wood dial by this well-known maker.

A very fine trunk dial [clock] with hour strike and convex wood dial.

A fine and rare eighteenth-century English dial clock with silvered dial, verge escapement and rise/fall regulation.

A rare, early nineteenth-century English dial timepiece with 12-inch wood dial.

A very fine and rare English dial with convex engraved brass dial and verge movement.

A very fine and rare English dial with convex engraved brass dial and verge movement. Same as STR/02/002/058.

A very good English dial timepiece with 14-inch engraved and silvered brass dial and single salt-box case.

A fine and rare early English dial timepiece with verge escapement.

An exceptionally fine and possibly unique example of a mahogany trunk dial with 18 3/4 inch one-piece wood dial and hour striking movement.

A fine and small English dial clock with the rare combination of silvered dial and octagon case.

A very rare English dial timepiece with 10-inch engraved brass dial and verge movement.

A fine and rare English dial with verge escapement, engraved brass dial and double salt-box case, all in exceptional condition.

A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece of quite exceptional quality.

A fine and early trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial and signed movement.

A fine and early trunk dial timepiece with 16.5-inch convex wood dial.

A good English Dial clock with engraved brass dial and verge escapement.

A good English dial clock with engraved brass dial and verge escapement.

A fine English dial timepiece with 13-inch silvered dial and verge escapement.

A rare striking trunk dial with convex wood dial.

A fine and very rare mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered dial.

A fine and rare large open-faced dial clock.

A good, early nineteenth-century English Dial with 12-inch, engraved brass dial.

A nineteenth-century English dial of exceptional quality.

A fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this eminent maker.

A fine English dial with verge escapement and the very rare feature of a calendar aperture.

A very rare English dial wall clock with 15-inch engraved and silvered brass dial, saltbox case and verge timepiece movement.

An exceptionally fine mahogany trunk dial [clock] with 14-inch engraved brass dial by these noted makers.

A good English dial with 12-inch engraved brass dial.

An exceedingly fine and rare striking mahogany trunk dial, the case signed and dated.

A fine and very rare English dial [clock] with 12-inch convex wood dial and hour strike.

A very fine mahogany trunk dial by this master of the Company with the rare feature of a "detached" dial.

A fine and exceedingly rare verge dial timepiece, fully documented.

A verge English dial clock with mock pendulum.

A good regency trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial.

A very good provincial example of a verge English dial [clock] with engraved brass dial.

A very fine chisel-foot mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this famous maker.

An early and very rare mahogany trunk dial with convex wood dial and hour striking movement.

A very fine trunk dial timepiece with fully signed and numbered movement by this celebrated maker.

An exceptionally fine and rare trunk dial timepiece by this celebrated maker.

Mahogany trunk dial timepiece with a silvered dial inscribed "Robing Room, Court of Chancery, Westminster, AD 1847".