Main dial: blue/grey, roses top, ranunculus bottom, primroses and small blue flowers dial centre. Hemispheres: odd maps, gold star on moon post, maps gold edged.
Main dial: blue/grey, gold band, four seasons, long faces. Hemispheres: good maps (original but dirty).
Main dial: blue/grey, gold band, four seasons, long faces. Hemispheres: good maps (original but dirty).
Main dial: creamy, anemone and blue petalled roses in corners, gesso-framed. Hemispheres: maps USA ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: blue/grey, four seasons ladies, rather skinny-faced and awkward postures. Hemispheres: good maps, America, with ecliptic below equator.
Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: off-white, large ladies, four seasons, no borders, gold band, nice painting. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: blue/grey, pink roses, strawberries corners, long-necked birds in centre, no gesso. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: blue/grey, very dark blue ovals in corners with gesso. Hemispheres: North America, with ecliptic above equator.
Main dial: blue/grey, pink roses in corners, no gesso, long-necked birds in centre. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: blue/grey, very dark blue ovals in corners with gesso. Moon faces: pop-eyed. Moon scenes: lady by seaside with anchor and dismasted ship in gale (this artist specialised in death and destruction at sea).
Main dial: blue/grey, strawberries and auriculas with blue flowers corners, gesso framing, long-necked birds in centre. Hemispheres: maps upside-down.
Main dial: off-white, very absorbent surface, modified fan corners, green fans, pale pink border, muted colours. Hemispheres: upside-down maps.
Main dial: blue/grey, roses in corners, gesso ovals set widthways, flat gold scrolling in corners, two long-necked birds in centre, roses with some blue petals. Hemispheres: curious maps, North America, ecliptic below equator.
Images of dials made by Thomas Hadley Osborne, a Birmingham dial maker who started his own dial manufactory after the dissolution of the Wilson & Osborne partnership in 1777.
Original article from Apollo Miscellany (1950), pp. 1–8.
Main dial: carnations, lilies, gesso framed, two long necked birds with foliage, black sprigs over lower dial feet. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: roses and crocus corners, long-necked birds centre with thin foliage. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: roses and crocus corners, long-necked birds centre with thin foliage. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: gesso whirligig corners; decorated arch seascape in breakarch with two ships.
Main dial: off-white, very elegant gesso, high oval in top, goddess holding palm leaf. False plate: cast iron.
Images of dials made by Thomas Keeling, a Birmingham dial maker active in 1799–1825.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 21 no. 6 (November 1986), pp. 28–30.
Original Royal Society of Arts publication of six lectures delivered before the Society in January and February 1908.
Original article in three parts from The Antique Collector (February, June and October 1966), pp. 18–25, 125–131 and 211–217.
Original article from Apollo (n.d.), pp. 49–52, 55.
Original article from The Connoisseur (April 1962), pp. 211–219.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 188 no. 756 (February 1975), pp. 116–123.
Original pages from Journal of the Society of Arts (26 August 1859), pp. 654–655.
Letter from the original "Home Correspondence" section of the Journal of the Society of Arts (9 September 1859), p. 675.
Original article in two parts from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October and November 1974), pp. 100–103, 80–82 and 85 respectively.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 90–94.
Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1903), pp. 169–174.
Original article from The Connoisseur (August 1910), pp. 249–254.
Two copies of the original article from Antique Collecting (March 1979), pp. 10–15 and 22–24. Also includes antique dealers' advertisement pages.
Original article from The Antique Collector (January 1984), pp. 40–42.
Photocopy of an article about the collection of John Hendry, published in Worcester Evening News.
Photocopy of an article from Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments, vol. 13 (1980).
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1973), pp. 55–58. Also includes issue cover.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 12 no. 1 (May 1977), pp. 18–20.
Bound copy of an article published in Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie (March 1929), reprinted in the Watchmaker, Jeweler, Silversmith and Optician, translated by J. Eric Haswell.
Original article from Antiques Weekly (19 June 1972), pp. 34–37.
Notebook, 47 pages, containing John W. Castle's handwritten notes, mostly on individual clocks, and some drawings. A signed note on inside cover reads "The notes in this book represent hours of research in museums and libraries all over England and half Europe".
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1961), pp. 29–30.
Original article from World of Antiques collectors' guide first classic edition (1969), pp. 139–141.
Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1957), pp. 148–152.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1959), pp. 20–21.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 17 no. 6 (January 1963), pp. 43–44.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1975), pp. 87–89.
Original article about the work of Andrew King and his interest in John Harrison, from Woodworking (June 1999), pp. 40–44.
Photocopy of chapter 1 of unidentified publication.
Original article from Antique Collector (January 1975), pp. 29–33.
Original article about a collection of English furniture, clocks and barometers sold at Christie's on 5 December 1991, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 8 (October 1991), pp. 6–7. Also includes The Murad III globes by Tom Lamb, pp. 8–9.
Original article from The Connoisseur (January 1973), pp. 3–14.
Includes copy of "Timekeepers of character", an article about the collection by George Worswick, published in Country Life in January 1978.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 183 no. 736 (June 1973), pp. 94–96.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (October 1955), pp. 37–44.
Original article from The Connoisseur (November 1931), pp. 308–315.
Original article from Endeavour no. 99, vol. 26 (September 1967), pp. 122–125.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1948), pp. 24–26.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 20 no. 12 (July 1966), pp. 50–53.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 70 (December 1924), pp. 230–236.
Reprint of an article from M&E Engineers Digest (June 1978), pp. 15–19. The author was resident engineer at the Palace of Westminster.
Original article from Country Life Annual (1955), pp. 84–87.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 150 no. 604 (June 1962), pp. 78–91.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1972), pp. 70–74.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1971), pp. 81–83.
Four bound issues: September 1930 (section 3c), January 1932 (section 5f), April 1932 (sections 1g and 2f), July 1933 (section 1k). Also includes leaflet 222f for "Electro-matic Frequency Clocks" (June 1934). Produced by Tangent.
Three bound issues: November 1927 (Section 3a), January 1928 (section 1b), March 1928 (section 5c). Produced by Tangent. Includes related correspondence.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 5 no. 5 (September 1970), pp. 24–26.
Slide 232 shows ceramic plates illustrating The Potter's Art, displayed next to the clock shown in slides 166, 167, 168, 169 and 231.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 125 no. 515 (March 1950), pp. 21–27. Includes mention of a Restoration period vase-shaped clock.
Original articles from The Connoisseur, vol. 136 no. 547 (September 1955), pp. 3–11.
11 colour photographs, individually labelled. Exhibition organised by David Day.
Photocopy of an article from Practical Engineering (25 December 1953), p. 694.
Original article in two parts from The Antique Collector (1960 August and October), pp. 151–156 and 188–191 respectively.
Original article from The Antique Collector (October 1938), pp. 263–266.
Original pages from Journal of the Society of Arts (1853/1854), pp. 107 and 133–135, containing letters about clocks.
Original article about a collection of English furniture, clocks and barometers sold at Christie's on 5 December 1991, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 10 (Spring 1992), pp. 14–15.
Photocopy of an article from Annals of Science, vol. 45 (1988), pp. 329–344.
Original article from Journal of the Society of Arts (21 May 1886), pp. 740–750.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1959), pp. 55–60.
Original article from Antique Collecting (February 1978), pp. 20–23.
Original articles from La Suisse Horlogere (December 1953).
Original articles from La Suisse Horlogere (December 1953). Also includes "John Harrison", an article by H. Alan Lloyd.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1989), pp. 48–49. Includes issue cover.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 10 no. 11 (March 1976), pp. 5–7.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1981), pp. 60–63.
Original article from The Connoisseur (February 1971), pp. 93–105.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1972), pp. 57–67. Also includes "An interest in antiques" on p. 55.
Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1950, February 1959).
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1988), pp. 53–55.
Original article from Antique Collectors' Club (October 1977), pp. 2–3.
Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur (September 1973 and February 1974), pp. 2–13 and 113–122 respectively.
Original article about Goethe's house in Frankfurt-am-Main, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1975), pp. 86–90.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1933), pp. 160–166.
Photocopy of an article from The Connoisseur (April 1926), pp. 220–222.
Typescript, hardback. Includes sections on family trees, name origins, reunions, circulars, obituaries, Honeybone clocks, etc. The Honeybones were Mildred Frederiksen's maternal family; William Abraham (b.1887) was her cousin.
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 The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1973), pp. 80–81.