Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings, and a note on "Knibb hands".
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings. No original number. Inserted between files 78 and 80.
Contains tracings only. No original number. Inserted between disordered files 79 and 40.
This collection comprises a series of eleven scrapbooks and one volume of Honeybone family history. The scrapbooks contain photographs, press cuttings, brochures, booklets, postcards, drawings, cartoons, typewritten quotations, handwritten notes, excerpts from fiction, music scores and other ephemera related to clockmaking and watchmaking, collected by Mildred Frederiksen. The descriptions of each volume in this catalogue provide contents highlights, but do not list every item. Most items are not individually dated.
Sin título37 pages. Includes address on "Our Ancestors' Clocks and Watches" by M.F. Frederiksen; astronomical clock on Strasburg Cathedral; "Pendulum to Atom" booklet for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute at Goldsmiths' Hall; "Collecting old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Conquete du Temps (booklet presented to visitors of the Swiss Pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition 1958); "Time in Broadcasting' (BBC Booklet produced for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute); Burgos Cathedral clock, Spain; clocks of Southwark and Clerkenwell; Zimmer Tower astronomical clock at Lierre, Belgium; flower clocks; British horologists; atomic clock; clocks of Bornholm; Buenos Aires "Big Ben" clock; world's largest electric clock; work of summer time clock changers; English ormolu mounts; Black Forest cuckoo clocks; Big Ben centenary; broadcast of "Ancient clocks of the West of England"; clocks of Germany and Switzerland; Kravchenko's Sputnik Clock; English church clocks; music scores for "My Grandfather's Clock" by Henry C. Work and "Song of the Clock" by Rex Burchell; early English watches, etc.
This collection comprises Dr Ward's correspondence, reports, lecture notes as well as printed material and photographs. They mostly document various horological tours and exhibitions organised by him, and his cataloguing and consulting work.
Sin títuloHandwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting re. the sale of the Hampton Court Estate, Leominster, by Viscount Hereford (The Daily Telegraph 3 Jan 1972). The envelope is also annotated "Ickwell Bury 1683".
Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.
Photocopy typescript. With a cover letter from the AHS addressed to Dr Ward.
Printed. Includes five b/w photographs and the following articles: "The earliest string-gnomon sundials" (1976); "An early pocket sundial illustrated in art" (1979); "A 15th century Italian 'clockmakers'' workshop" (1980); "A sixteenth-century clock illustration" (1982); "An interior church clock dial in Haarlem" (1984); and "Clocks in the paintings of Titian" (1985).
Handwritten. Also includes correspondence regarding required images, photocopy images of the Coster clock at the Science Museum, six b/w photographs of an Italian night clock from the British Museum, and printed 27th annual AHS report.
Handwritten.
Typescript photocopy. Two copies.
Typescript and printed. Also includes notes, handwritten on the backs of unrelated correspondence.
Typescript. Envelope annotated "Inf. from Bedini".
39 b/w photographs, captioned. Includes astronomical clocks, table clocks, Tompion bracket clock, monstrance clocks, rack clocks, globe clocks, and watches. Some photographs captioned "AHS property".
38 b/w photographs, with film negatives.
6 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope captioned "Blair photos".
3 b/w mounted photographs, captioned.
19 b/w photographs, captioned.
This collection comprises records created and collected by Francis Wadsworth. It includes a large series of original articles by various authors on horological and related topics (cut out of publications, many of them were purchased from antiquarian book dealers), as well as sales and auction catalogues and advertisements for clocks, watches and clockmaking tools; instructions, manuals, and patents; reference publications; alphabetical files relating to clockmaking firms and factories; exhibition and museum brochures; correspondence; ephemera; and papers relating to Wadsworth’s work on the AHS Publication Committee. In addition to purely horological topics, it reflects Francis Wadsworth’s interest in scientific instruments, stately houses and antique furniture and porcelain.
Sin títuloOriginal article from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (November 1851), pp. 354–357.
Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. xxxv–xlii.
Incomplete original article from Journal of the Society of Arts (18 June 1920), pp. 505–506 only.
Original article from The Connoisseur in America (December 1935), pp. 348–349. Pages also include short articles about other, non-horological collectibles.
Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1950, February 1959).
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (December 1960), pp. 5–14.
Original article from Antique Collector (February 1961), pp. 3–11.
Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 11 (March 1977), pp. 25–30. Includes antique clock dealer advertisements.
Original article about an exhibition at Wartski, 14 Grafton St, London, held on 8–21 March, from Antique Collecting (March 1989), pp. 40–41.
Photocopy of a glossary entry from Practical craft (April 1994), pp. 41–42.
Part 1: Clock with automatons. Original articles from an unidentified publication.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1985), pp. 65–67.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1987), pp. 40–43.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 24 no. 7 (December 1989), p. 18.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 66–69.
Original pages from an unidentified colour magazine, with an artistic photograph of wall clocks of various designs and their prices.
Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 18–22.
Original articles from The Connoisseur, vol. 136 no. 547 (September 1955), pp. 3–11.
Original article from Antique Collector (October 1975), pp. 28–31.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1971), pp. 71–76.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 9 no. 7 (November 1974), pp. 14–17.
Original article from The Connoisseur (August 1975), pp. 290–299.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1968), pp. 56–57.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1969), pp. 90–93.
Original article from an unidentified issue of The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 96–103.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1922), pp. 75–78.
Photocopy of an article from Wireless World (October 1976), pp. 38–42.
Original article about pocket–sized instruments including timepieces and compasses from Antique Collector (July 1980), pp. 76–78.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1959), pp. 20–21.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1959), pp. 32–34.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1961), pp. 38–40.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 125 no. 515 (March 1950), pp. 21–27. Includes mention of a Restoration period vase-shaped clock.
Original article from Antique Collector (September 1982), pp. 82–83.
Original articles from La Suisse Horlogere (December 1953).
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 13 no. 9 (April 1959), pp. 22–24. Includes issue cover.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 114–116.
Original article from Art and Antiques (17 August 1974), pp. 12–15. Also includes pp. 34–35, showing a German polyphon longcase clock.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 3 (July/August 1981), p. 35.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 3 (July/August 1982), p. 46.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 14 no. 6 (November 1979), p. 47.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 3 (July/August 1981), p. 29.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 3 (July/August 1982), p. 59.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 58–59.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1948), p. 27.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (August 1953), pp. 51–58.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (August 1954), pp. 5–10.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (June 1957), pp. 45–52.
Original article in two parts from from La Suisse Horlogère (July 1958 and October 1958), pp. 77–82 and 81–90 respectively.
Original article from Art and Antiques Weekly (9–15 January 1981), pp. 18–21.
Photocopy of an article from Practical Craft (March 1994), pp. 56–58.
Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur (September 1973 and February 1974), pp. 2–13 and 113–122 respectively.
Original article from The Antiquarian (April 1931), pp. 32–34.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 20 no. 7 (December 1985), pp. 66–67.
Original article Country Life (1 December 1988), pp. 160–165.
Photocopy of an article from Country Life (12 June 1969), pp. 1528–1535.
Cutting of an article from Antique Trade Gazette (24 June 1995), pp. 30, 33.
Original article from Communication no. 62 du Musée national d'Histoire des Sciences exactes et naturelles à Leiden (n.d.), pp. 417–419. Annotated '82'.
Original article from The Connoisseur (May 1972), pp. 36–46.
Original article about wood and porcelain furniture, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1971), pp. 58–60.
Original article from Connaissance des Arts no. 172 (June 1966), pp. 70–77.
Original pages from Journal of the Society of Arts (1853/1854), pp. 107 and 133–135, containing letters about clocks.