Contains notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings, and a note on "Knibb hands".
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten note and tracings.
Contains tracing of backplate only.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains one tracing of backplate only.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches (some coloured) and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes and sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains one tracing only.
Contains one tracing of backplate only.
Contains one note only.
Contains tracings only. No original number. Inserted between files 68 and 69.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains tracings of plate only.
Contains handwritten description, notes, annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated tracing of old backplate.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches, tracings and a b/w photograph. No original number. Inserted next to file 26.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains tracings and annotated sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings. Originally numbered "C25-25a".
Contains handwritten report, notes, coloured sketches and tracings. Originally numbered "C1-22".
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains notes on the history of the clock, sketches, tracings and one b/w photograph.
Contains handwritten report, notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains one sketch and tracing.
Contains letter from 'John', notes and sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains notes and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes and tracings.
Contains notes, tracings and sketches. Originally numbered "C52-52a".
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings. Originally numbered "C10" (duplicate number).
Contains sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains one note only.
Contains annotated tracing.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches, tracings and cutouts.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains two tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains letter from "John" and a small sketch.
Contains one note only.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains letter from Mrs F. H. Pratt and sketches of back and front plates.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings. Annotated "see photos" but no photographs are included in the file.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten report, annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains notes, tracings, sketches and a typewritten report on the clock's condition and provenance.
Printed. Includes five b/w photographs and the following articles: "The earliest string-gnomon sundials" (1976); "An early pocket sundial illustrated in art" (1979); "A 15th century Italian 'clockmakers'' workshop" (1980); "A sixteenth-century clock… Read more
This series comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.
Original article from Science News no. 38 (Penguin Books, 1955), pp. 101–105.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1978), pp. 57–61.
Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 10 (March 1989), pp. 4–20. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisements pages and directory.
Original reviews from "The Connoisseur Bookshelf" section of The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 57–60. Also includes reviews of non-horological books.
Original article about the 1930s design from The Antique Collector (February 1982), pp. 72–75.
Images of dials made by Richard Blood, a Birmingham dial maker.
Main dial: geometric corners with oval, dull colours.
Images of dials made by Richard Hipkiss, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1780s–1840s
Main dial: gold flared Arabics on dark blue chapter ring; bluebell inn in breakarch, mountain in background; man with four seasons in corners, long clay pipe. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: centre painting Britannia, lion and ship at sea, gold flowers corners.
Main dial: off-white base colour, pink draped corners, gold fans, green wreath with red berries. Hemispheres: almost gone.
Main dial: off-white, shells in corners on gold and white. Hemispheres: very little left, outside numbers latitude. False plate: altered.
Moon faces: wide-eyed, pursed lips, heavy varnish. Moon scenes: house with mountains; peanut ship.
Moon faces: pale. Moon scenes: ship; cottage, tree ruin in distance.
Main dial: gold flared Arabics on dark blue chapter ring; bluebell inn in breakarch, mountain in background; man with four seasons in corners, long clay pipe. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: gold flared Arabics on dark blue chapter ring; bluebell inn in breakarch, mountain in background; man with four seasons in corners, long clay pipe. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, corners in pink/black with gold oval and laurel leaves. False plate: Hipkiss cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, corners in pink/black with gold oval and laurel leaves. False plate: Hipkiss cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, pink ovals set in green with gold leaves, flat gold-framed corners. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: corners green background with carnations, tulip centre.
Eight pages. Includes information about a silver pair-cased watch from 1789 and three pedometers.
File marked RC13/3. Includes correspondence, descriptions, journal articles, photographs and negatives relating to Robin-type escapement (Robert Robin, 1742-1799 was a French clockmaker and inventor of the combined anchor-spring escapement). Also… Read more
This collection comprises research papers compiled by Tom Robinson. They include subject files relating to clocks of various types and provenances and to individual makers, as well as photographs.
Robinson, TomTwo copies of an original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1974), pp. 76–77.