French perpetual calendar in gilt four glass case.
1/4 striking clock.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1955), pp. 23–25.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1955), pp. 28–30.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1955), pp. 28–30.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1956), pp. 29–31.
Short letter from an unidentified original issue of The Connoisseur (n.d.), p. 102, referencing "A clock-watch by Edward East" article from the November 1923 issue.
Original article from the Journal of the Society of Arts (24 May 1878), pp. 608–620.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 15 no. 6 (November 1980), p. 33.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 9 (February 1983), pp. 12–15.
Original article about regulator clocks from the Clocks supplement of The Antique Collector (1987), pp. 21–24. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1988), pp. 53–55.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 11 (March 1977), pp. 18–21. Also includes antique clock dealers' directory.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 12 no. 1 (May 1977), pp. 18–20.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 8 (January 1983), pp. 23–25.
Original articles from Discovering Antiques no. 34 (1971), pp. 813–816, 793–796, 798–802 and 808–811.
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 Antique Finder (April 1973), pp. 56–59. Also includes a review of Carriage Clocks, a book by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert.
Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1984), pp. 68–71.
Original article about Swatch wrist watches from The Times Saturday Review (30 November 1991), p. 32.
Original article about watch-key collecting, from Arts & Antiques (14 December 1974), pp. 25–27.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1978), p. 77–79.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), p. 88.
Original article from The Antique Collector (1955), pp. 220–221.
Original article from The Connoisseur (November 1931), pp. 308–315.
Original articles from Antique Collecting (March 1985), pp. 37–43 and 62–63. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and directory.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 3 (July/August 1988), pp. 53–54.
Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 3–10.
Original article about the Sotheby sale of a newly discovered Tompion clock and a James Condliff skeleton clock from The Times (28 June 2003).
Original article from Art & Antiques (25 February 1978), pp. 20–21.
Original article from The Connoisseur (May 1939), pp. 270–274.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 154 no. 621 (November 1963), pp. 147–153.
Photocopy of an article in two parts from Practical Engineering (11 and 18 September 1953), pp. 263–264 and 301 respectively. Reprint of a paper read to the British Horological Institute.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1981), pp. 60–63.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1982), pp. 40–43.
Original articles from Antique Collecting (February 1992), pp. 28–31 and 32–35. Also includes antique clock dealers' directory.
Original article from Art & Antiques (16 September 1982), pp. 19–22.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1948), pp. 24–26.
Original article from World of Antiques collectors' guide first classic edition (1969), pp. 139–141.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "V".
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 162 no. 651 (May 1966), pp. 2–7.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 70 no. 280 (December 1924), pp. 205–214.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 95–98.
Original article about Canadian furniture of the Georgian era, from The Antique Collector (January 1986), pp. 88–93.
Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1974), pp. 34–44.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "Y".
Original issue, with an article on "Description of a proposed new uniform pressure clock", news items on a grant to Horological Institute and rating chronometers, and queries re. building seconds clock and lever escapement.
Three bound issues: November 1927 (Section 3a), January 1928 (section 1b), March 1928 (section 5c). Produced by Tangent. Includes related correspondence.
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.
Published by Centre d'Information de l'Horlogerie Française, Paris. 159 pages.
Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.
Bound photocopy of an article published in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy of 1788.
Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of Wynn's description of his Society of Arts Gold Isis Medal winning invention of a time-keeper and a compensating pendulum (1817). Also includes, as front, C. G. McKay's short letter about William Wynn, published in Antiquarian Horology (Autumn 1977) and a biographical note about Wynn from the ninth edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers.
Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.
Bound photocopies of several articles on various aspects of electrical watches published in Revue Chronométrique: Journal de L'Horlogerie Française.
Original Royal Society of Arts publication of six lectures delivered before the Society in January and February 1908.
Photocopy of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 3 no. 5).
Bound copy of an article published in the Post Office Electrical Engineers Journal.
Bound copy of an article about acquiring long-case clocks, from an unidentified publication.
Copy of an article published in "La Clessidra" (no. 6).
Photocopy of an article published in Wireless World.
Delivered at a Northern Section meeting on 11th May. Copy of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.
Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of an article published in The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society vol. 28.
Two copies of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.
Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.
Printout, arranged alphabetically by author's name.
Two originals torn out of Jeweller and Metalworker (January 1951 and March 1952) and two photocopies from Jewellers Journal Book of Recipes (n.d., nineteenth century).
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).
Includes related correspondence.
Held at the School of Horology, Blanchardstown, Dublin, on 14 Dec 1976 to mark the bicentenary of the death of John Harrison. Signed by W. Stuart.
Album containing the complete series of 25 cards. Purchased from The Good Olde Days shop in Brighton.
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.
Two b/w photographs. Annotated "L'Heure Electrique EXA pour le petite horloger electricien amateur".
One colour photograph, showing general view of the exhibition and the Rita Shenton Books stall.
A fine mahogany bracket clock with an enamel dial and centre date hand in an arched-top case and in exceptional condition.
A very fine, early eighteenth-century bracket clock in a case of Kingwood and with verge escapement, quarter repeat and alarm.
A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker.
A grande sonnerie carriage clock no. 5473 with alarm, in a gorge case and with a movement of high quality.
A finely engraved, oval carriage clock with engraved dial mask.
A London mahogany longcase of the highest quality.
A good, ebony veneered bracket clock by this maker of great repute, with ormolu mounted case, verge escapement and quarter repeating on six bells.
A panelled marquetry longcase of exceptional proportions and colour with 10" dial and movement of one month duration.
A very fine and small mahogany longcase with all the characteristics of this celebrated maker.
[With original case].
A fine and early, round-top, inlaid mahogany wheel barometer.