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WAD/01/G/011 · File · 1991 Apr
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original article about the late seventeenth-century London clockmakers and their bracket clocks, from The Antique Collector (April 1991), pp. 77–80. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.

WAD/01/H/001 · File · n.d. [mid-20th century]
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 364–366. Annotated '81'.

FRANCIS BYRNE DIALS
TEN/A/09 · Subseries · 1977–2008
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Images of dials made by Francis Byrne, a Birmingham dial maker active there in 1772–77 and in London in the 1780s and 1790s.

NOR/02/005 · File · n.d. [20th century]
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Photocopies of annotated typewritten notes on aspects of the clock: chiming, striking to the nearest second, winding by electric motor, summertime. Includes diagram.

FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED
FRE · Collection · 1955–1966

This collection comprises a series of eleven scrapbooks and one volume of Honeybone family history. The scrapbooks contain photographs, press cuttings, brochures, booklets, postcards, drawings, cartoons, typewritten quotations, handwritten notes, excerpts from fiction, music scores and other ephemera related to clockmaking and watchmaking, collected by Mildred Frederiksen. The descriptions of each volume in this catalogue provide contents highlights, but do not list every item. Most items are not individually dated.

Frederiksen, Mildred
ALL/01/002 · File · 1908–1988
Part of ALLIX, CHARLES

Malcolm Gardner (1896–1960) was an antiquarian horologist, horological consultant and bookseller, and Charles Allix's business partner. Robert Gardner (1851–1932), his father, was a manufacturer of marine chronometers. Includes: Robert's and Malcolm's original business correspondence (handwritten and typewritten); published "horological who's who" biographical note on Malcolm; published obituaries of Robert and Malcolm; business certificates; Charles Allix (Malcolm Gardner) Horological Book Catalogue flyers; and Charles Allix's handwritten copy letter to "Sandra" on the death of her father Richard J. Coates.

GEORGE WALKER DIALS
TEN/A/28 · Subseries · 1981–2006
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Images of dials made by George Walker or Walker & Company, Birmingham dial makers active around 1810.

SHE/06/003 · File · 1951–1952
Part of SHENTON, ALAN AND RITA

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).