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This collection comprises research papers compiled by Robert Miles in the course of his study of the history of the Synchronome company, which resulted in the publication of his book, Synchronome: Masters of Electrical Timekeeping (2011 and 2019). They include copies of primary and secondary sources from the nineteenth century onwards (including papers and articles by F. Hope-Jones), subject files, clock lists, photographs, slides and digital records.

Includes typescript of an article on "The Clockmakers of Surrey, Middlesex and Hertfordshire"; handwritten and typescript lists of individual makers 1516–1830; scrap notes; handwritten notes taken from The Economic History of England by E. Lipson (1915); a catalogue leaflet for Rita Shenton's bookshop (specialist horological bookseller); two b/w photographs of a longcase clock by James Douglas Chertsey; small print of a view of Southwark Cathedral; and a tourist guide to Islington.

Includes handwritten lists of individuals' names from extracted from various directories 1797–1845; scrap notes, some relating to earlier sources; and related correspondence.

Original article from The Antique Collector (June 1973), pp. 165–169.

Includes letters, copy catalogue pages, eight photographs and slides.

Inscribed "J.A. Sutcliffe, Blackpool".

Original article from Antique Collector (September 1977), pp. 70–74.

Frank Mercer (1882–1970) was a chronometer maker; his father was the founder of Thomas Mercer Ltd, a firm of makers of chronometers and precision equipment based in St Albans, dating back to 1858. File includes obituaries of Frank Mercer, biographical articles about Thomas junior and senior, an article about the firm's centenary, etc.

Original article about Victorian and Edwardian pocket watches, from What's It Worth part 1 (1993), pp. 7–8.

Four drawings, including the "stackfreed" and "mainspring barrel and fusee".

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1976), pp. 75–77.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 21 no. 3 (July/August 1986), pp. 54–55.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 9 no. 6 (October 1974), pp. 22–27.

This collection contains research papers, publications and collectanea assembled by Chris McKay. It includes a large series of subject files relating to various clocks and clockmakers, including the Big Ben clock; guidebooks, catalogues and diaries; photographs, negatives and slides; art prints; and a significant collection of horological postcards.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 166 no. 670 (December 1967), pp. 213–221.

Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur, vol. 182 (February 1973 and March 1973), pp. 106–111 and 179–188 respectively.

Original article from The Connoisseur (June 1970), pp. 77–85.

Typescript and handwritten.

Two original articles from Antique Collector (August and September 1987), pp. 68–74 and 108–115 respectively.

Original article about a small clock by Grimalde & Johnson from Antique Collector (April 1974), pp. 62–63.

Printed.

Original article from The Connoisseur Year Book (1956), pp. 104–110.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1984), pp. 36–39. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.

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.

Also includes press cuttings from Newnes Practical Mechanica on orrery, planetarium and timing and delay mechanisms.

Includes typewritten letters, eight photographs and envelope.

Original article about a collection of French furniture, ormolu-mounted porcelain and gilt-bronzes sold at in Monte Carlo on 20 June 1992, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 12 (May/June 1992), pp. 12–13.

Includes letters, five photographs and photographic postcards, two typescript copies of John W. Castle's article "The astronomical clock of Lyon", a copy of an article from La Nature (1895) on "L'Horloge Astronomique de Lyon", copy drawings and typescript article (in French) on the astrolabe of Lyon. Also includes handwritten letter from the AHS regarding the publication of the article.

Includes four photographs and a typescript article "The Clock of Lund", translated from German.

Includes four photographs and a 1930 Uhrmakerkunst article reprint on "Die neue Regulierung der Uhr der St. Marienkirche in Lübeck".

Original article from The Antique Collector (June 1986), pp. 102–103.

This is a copy of a two-volume list compiled by Francis Buckley and G. B. Buckley, held at the Guildhall Library (ref. CLC/239/MS03338/001-002). Newspapers include The Post Man, The Daily Courant, The Daily Post and General Advertiser, The Daily Journal and London Gazette. The file includes a list of references to lost pieces by Gray and Vulliamy, and references to other lost watches not included in the original volume, some in the hand of Eileen Bunt.

Original article from Antique Collector (August 1986), pp. 40–45.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1980), pp. 74–76.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1975), pp. 80–86.

Two copies of an original article from "The world of antique clocks" section of The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1975), pp. 120–125.

Original article from Art & Antiques (15 April 1972), pp. 18–21.

Original article from Antique Collecting (March 1986), pp. 30–33. Also includes Where to buy clocks directory.

Two copies of an original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 2 (June 1978), pp. 26–28.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 3 (July/August 1982), p. 40–42.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 19 no. 3 (July/August 1984), pp. 32–33.

Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 11 (March 1977), pp. 25–30. Includes antique clock dealer advertisements.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 64–65. Includes "Clocks from two centuries", a selection of clocks from the dealers' showrooms.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1990), pp. 52–53.

File marked RC13/2. Includes typewritten lists of watches and clocks for sale by various dealers based in York, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire, including Rarities International, Kingsway Galleries, Castle Galleries and Roy James and Co.

Handwritten. Used in Dr Ward's lectures on "Early clocks and clock dials as shown in illuminated manuscripts", given at the Science Museum.

Printout of a translation of an article published in the French journal Négation, about workers at the Lip watch factory in France, who began self-managing the firm. Also available online at https://libcom.org/article/lip–and–self–managed–counter–revolution–1973–negation.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 286–295. Annotated '91C'.

Two typewritten letters only. The description and postcard of the clock refered to in the letter are not included in the file.

Seven cards. Purchased in 1988 from L. M. C. Nierynck, the Netherlands.

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 Connaissance des Arts no. 318 (August 1978), pp. 30–37.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (24 August 1949), pp. 368–373.

With synopsis and chapter titles.

One typewritten letter. Also includes a seemingly unrelated handwritten and undated (incomplete?) letter to "Mr Genge [?]".

With bibliography on telecommunications.

With an invitation to "See how the wheels go round", a Dorset County Museum event held on 23–25 June 2000.

Handwritten, with diagrams.

Typescript with photographs.

Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 219–226. Annotated '81'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 497–499, 527. Annotated '91A'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 23–37. Annotated '92'.

Bound copy of an article published in Les Merveilles de la Science.

Original article from Communication no. 61 du Musée national d'Histoire des Sciences exactes et naturelles à Leiden, Hollande (n.d.), pp. 189–204.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 220–225 (annnotated '91B').

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (May/June 1947), pp. 176–187. Annotated '91B'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (September/October 1946), pp. 418–423. Annotated '80'.

Original article from Connaissance des Arts no. 266 (April 1974), pp. 80–87.

Includes handwritten notes with detailed description of "Leroux no. 3153".

Includes correspondence, photocopies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, photocopies of journal, dictionary and draft articles, photographs and notes.

Original article about eighteenth–century scientific instruments for measuring, surveying, navigation and time telling from Antique Collector (April 1980), pp. 77–79. Alo includes pp. 75–76.

Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 283–286. Annotated '81'.

18 b/w captioned photographs and 3 postcards. Includes regulator clocks, pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks, reconstructions of Hugyens' marine clocks, airpumps, apparatus for measuring centrifugal forces, and Christiaan Hugyens portrait. All photographs endorsed 'Copyright Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden'.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the AHS at the City of London Guildhall on 20 February 1997. Includes slides, draft summary of the lecture by J.A. Neale, and related correspondence.

Original articles from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 345–352. Annotated '91.A' and '91.H'.

Original article, probably from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 77–82. Annotated '83'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 439–444. Annotated '91A'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 146–149. Annotated '91.A'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 404–416. Annotated '82'.

Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 143–148. Annotated '91C'.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 2 (June 1978), pp. 48–49.

Original article from Antique Collector (April 1972), pp. 73–78.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1974), pp. 97–100.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 3 (July/August 1981), p. 8.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 3 (July/August 1982), p. 7.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 283–286. Annotated '81'.

Typescript. Also includes printed brochures.

Original articles from The Antique Collector (June 1988), pp. 144–147 and 140–143.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 446–456. Annotated '91E'.

Original article from Connaissance des Arts no. 172 (June 1966), pp. 70–77.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (March/April 1947), pp. 82–89. Annotated '80'. Also includes "L'année chronométrique à l'Observatoire de Neuchâtel" by E. Guyot on p. 90.

Original article in three parts from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 365–374, 468–474 and 539–544. Annotated '83'.

Original article from Connaissance des Arts no. 266 (April 174), pp. 95–101.

Copy of an article published in "La Clessidra" (no. 6).