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Images of dials made by Samuel Baker and Samuel Baker & Son, Birmingham dial makers active around 1826–50.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1980), pp. 93–95.

Includes Sabrier's articles "Une Montre Expérimentale de Ferdinand Berthoud" and "Un Échappement a Roue de Rencontre sur Deux Niveaux", photographs and relates correspondence. Also includes papers relating to Pasquale Andervalt gas-wound clock.

Fragment of an original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), p. 159. Also includes first page of "La pierre d'horologerie".

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–36 of the fire policy register MS 7255, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 46–83 of the fire policy register MS 7254, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details. Volumes 1-45 of this series do not survive.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–98 of the fire policy register MS 7253, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–7 of the fire policy register MS 7252, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Bound printed alphabetical list of names of clockmakers, watchmakers, jewellers and other horology-related professionals, compiled by R.F. Carrington from four series of fire policy registers of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company (The London Archives ref. CLC/B/107/02/MS07252–MS07255). Gives name, policy register volume number, placename and occupation.

Original article from Antique Collector (December 1958), pp. 211–220.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 114–116.

File marked RC5 and annotated "Roger's father's sketches for various projects" and "Dad's sketches etc, all undated and for various projects". Includes handwritten notes and rough sketches of clock elements and movements.

Includes typewritten letters, extracts from journal articles, and nine photographs and drawings. Also includes letter from Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy.

Original article from The Antique Collector (1955), pp. 220–221.

Two copies of an original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1974), pp. 76–77.

This collection comprises research papers compiled by Tom Robinson. They include subject files relating to clocks of various types and provenances and to individual makers, as well as photographs.

File marked RC13/3. Includes correspondence, descriptions, journal articles, photographs and negatives relating to Robin-type escapement (Robert Robin, 1742-1799 was a French clockmaker and inventor of the combined anchor-spring escapement). Also includes a copy of Horlogerie Ancienne (December 1978).

Eight pages. Includes information about a silver pair-cased watch from 1789 and three pedometers.

Images of dials made by Richard Hipkiss, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1780s–1840s

Images of dials made by Richard Blood, a Birmingham dial maker.

Original article about the 1930s design from The Antique Collector (February 1982), pp. 72–75.

Original reviews from "The Connoisseur Bookshelf" section of The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 57–60. Also includes reviews of non-horological books.

Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 10 (March 1989), pp. 4–20. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisements pages and directory.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1978), pp. 57–61.

Original article from Science News no. 38 (Penguin Books, 1955), pp. 101–105.

This series comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.

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).

Contains notes, tracings, sketches and a typewritten report on the clock's condition and provenance.

Contains handwritten report, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings. Annotated "see photos" but no photographs are included in the file.

Contains letter from Mrs F. H. Pratt and sketches of back and front plates.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one note only.

Contains letter from "John" and a small sketch.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains two tracings.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches, tracings and cutouts.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains annotated tracing.

Contains one note only.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings. Originally numbered "C10" (duplicate number).

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, tracings and sketches. Originally numbered "C52-52a".

Contains handwritten notes and tracings.

Contains notes and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one sketch and tracing.

Contains letter from 'John', notes and sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.