Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1980), pp. 93–95.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1981), pp. 42–44.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1948), pp. 24–26.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 41 (n.d.), pp. 980–984.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1971), pp. 80–87.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1971), pp. 81–83.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1972), pp. 70–74.
Original article from the 'Collectors Counsel' section of The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1973), p. 119.
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 Science News no. 9 (Penguin Books, 1948), pp. 88–103.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "W".
Original article from the "Notes" section of The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 163–164, 167.
Original article about Dragon 32 software which "turns your Dragon into a calendar", from Personal Computing Today (September 1983), pp. 33–36.
Original article from Art & Antiques Weekly (19 May 1973), pp. 27–31. Includes issue cover and contents page.
Original article from The Connoisseur (August 1924), pp. 214–221.
Photocopy of an article from Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments, vol. 13 (1980).
Two copies of an original article about musical boxes and clocks from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1972), pp. 80–81.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1976), pp. 75–77.
Original article about Canadian furniture of the Georgian era, from The Antique Collector (January 1986), pp. 88–93.
Photocopy of an article in two parts from The Chartered Mechanical Engineer (February and April 1978), pp. 80–81 and 85–90 respectively.
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 articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 7 (December 1988), pp. 51 and 52.
Original article about platinum and its applications, from Business World (n.d.), pp. 25–30.
Original article from Endeavour no. 100, vol. 27 (January 1968), p. 2.
Original article from The Connoisseur Year Book (1956), pp. 22–26.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1997), pp. 43–45.
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.
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.
Two original issues, containing articles on sundials, poetry in watches, and horology-related advertisements.
Published by Centre d'Information de l'Horlogerie Française, Paris. 159 pages.
Photocopies of articles published in Nicholson's Journal, i.e. the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts.
Photocopies of articles published in Alexander Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, later called Philosophical Journal.
Photocopies of excerpts from the Mechanics Magazine vols. 11–58.
Bound photocopies of several articles on various aspects of electrical watches published in Revue Chronométrique: Journal de L'Horlogerie Française.
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.
Photocopy of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 3 no. 5).
Bound copy of an article published in La Clessidra. With translation and review by Charles K. Aked.
Loose copy of an article published in two parts in Wireless World.
Two copies of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.
Originals and photocopies, relating to individual clocks and watches, clockmaking news, Robert Hooke and Captain James Cook.
Bound extracts from HMSO Patents for Inventions (London) for "class 139" specifications for watches, clocks and other timekeepers. Contains subject-matter and name indexes in several chronological sections.
Scrapbook of notes, copies of articles and cuttings. Arranged chronologically by date of publication, covering dates 1951–1988.
Printout, arranged alphabetically by author's name.
Original pages extracted from The Horological Journal (1910-26) and photocopy from The Jeweller and Metalworker (1894). Also includes notes about Watch and Clock Makers' Pension Society and the Clockmakers' Company (1910) and statistics for exports of clocks and watches in 1926.
Loose leaflets showing various clocks and their specifications, brochures, three photographs, Dr Shenton's chronologically arranged handwritten list of clocks. Also includes related correspondence.
Oaktree Antiques, selling "town and country furniture, longcase clocks and works of art" is based in Marlet Harborough, Leicestershire.
Contains a list of all exhibits.
Handwritten, with diagrams.
With synopsis and chapter titles.
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.
Complete series of 20 cards, with some duplicates.
Seven cards. Purchased in 1988 from L. M. C. Nierynck, the Netherlands.
15 blank postcards showing watches and clocks from the collection, as well as the museum and the town. Includes a set of six transparency slides .
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.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, clock descriptions, brochures, journal articles, cutouts of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Includes correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, journal articles, draft articles, photographs and notes.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings.
Includes correspondence, copies of watch databases, transcripts and copies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers, photocopies of journal articles, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.
Includes correspondence, copies of eighteenth-century newspapers, newspaper articles, sales brochures, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.
Makers' surnames include: Adamson, Aske, Barnett, Bennett, Beyer, Boyce, Bradford, Buckenhill. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Makers' surnames include: Halstead, Halsted, Harris, Harrys, Harvey, Haughtin, Hodgkin, Holloway, Huddleston, Hudson. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
This series contains cutouts and photocopies of twentieth-and early twenty-first-century catalogue entries and advertisements describing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century longcase clocks, annotated by Jeremy Evans. The files also include photographs and some related correspondence and reports.
This series contains cutouts and photocopies of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century catalogue entries and advertisements describing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century bracket clocks, annotated by Jeremy Evans. Some files also include photographs, journal articles and related correspondence and reports.
Main dial: off-white, shepherd boy with fat sheep in top dial centre, fine wreath on outside, "345" on back of dial.
Main dial: blue-grey, convolvulus and lily in gesso framed corners, rose and aster in breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, dianthus and honeysuckle corners, gesso framed, peach in dial centre, rose and dianthus or carnation in breakarch, vigorous style.
Main dial: blue-grey, gesso corners, gesso small flowers in four places in dial centre.
Main dial: elaborate floral border, tulips and rosebud with bow in centre, off-white base; no gromets.
Main dial: unmarked geometric corners, vigorously painted rose top centre.
Main dial: blue-grey, typical Byrne gesso corner small dial.
Main dial: blue-grey, fat roses and strawberries bottom, roses and lilies at top, smaller roses either side seconds dial covering dial post, thin base paint. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, floral corners, gold leaf framing, large Byrne-type flowers in breakarch. Fine dial, good Byrne work. False plate: cast iron, factor's name.
Images of dials made by Eli Fenton, a Birmingham dial maker active in 1807–31.
Main dial: tulips and auriculas, pattern-framed corners on outside only, birds centre with small flowers. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, geometric corners with ovals and some gold. Hemispheres: flowers in gold.
Moon faces: round eyes, red nose and cheeks, smiling. Moon scenes: Duke of Wellington; small boat at sea.
Main dial: very rare level Roman, green background to corners, roses and auriculas, cherries in centre.
Main dial: cream-gold background to everything, roses, poppies in corners; corners fine painting of Durham Cathedral named in breakarch. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: gold leaf decorated apex of corner, black background to pink and yellow roses, blue morning glories, two long-tailed birds dial centre.
Main dial: anemone, morning glory and daffodil corners. Hemispheres: good maps, late type; North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: four long feet.
Main dial: modified fan corners with decorated bands, two long-tailed birds dial centre.
Main dial: pink roses in corners, pink morning glories and birds; mother and child at pool in breakarch. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: fan corners, fat bird with long tail dial centre.
Main dial: pink roses with orange band corners.
Main dial: pink roses with anenomes in corners; cottage by river in breakarch. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: rather dreamy, pink cheeks and nose. Moon scenes: ship at sea; ruins and cottage.