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.
These clock files, arranged by clock type, contain one-page descriptions of the clocks and their cases, dials and movements, prices, as well as biographical notes about the makers and references to published sources. They are copies of the descriptive tickets included in the photograph series STR/02, but here they are arranged by clock type and annotated with sale details (invoice number, date and price).
Original binder label says "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 21 July 1979.
Original binder label says "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 5 January 1981.
Includes catalogues for the English dial clocks (June-July 1978), Act of Parliament clocks (c.1978) and bracket clocks (summer 1982) exhibitions.
192 pages. Signed by Milo Mighell on 21 July 2010.
The stock/sales books list every clock that went through the business. They record the stock number, date of purchase, description, supplier, cost, repair details (description, repairer, dates and cost), total cost, retail price, date sold, sales price and buyer's name and address. The unique stock number given to every item consists of a three- or four-digit month and year tag, followed by a sequential number.
An exceptionally fine, English striking wall clock with silvered dial and mahogany case in the manner of Thomas Hope.
A collection of four silver pair- and triple-cased verge watches in mint condition.
A fine, one-piece dial, Vienna regulator with timepiece movement of one month duration.
An exceptionally fine and small mahogany bell top bracket clock with arched brass dial and verge escapement.
A fine and rare French skeleton clock. It is illustrated on the jacket of European Clocks by E. J. Tyler.
An exceptionally fine, green lacquered, Tavern or Act of Parliament timepiece.
A small and elegant mahogany longcase with brass dial and centre date band.
A very fine and small hooded wall clock in a mahogany case and with arched brass dial, weight-driven verge movement and hour strike.
A good, small hanging wall clock with verge, timepiece movement and alarm.
A fine carriage clock by this celebrated maker, with grande sonnerie striking and contained in an engraved gorge case.
A fine and small, ebony veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, baster top case
A good, early nineteenth-century English Dial with 12-inch, engraved brass dial.
A good, mahogany, striking regulator longcase in a finely figured mahogany case of beautiful colour.
A small rosewood bracket clock
A fine and large carriage timepiece by this excellent maker.
French perpetual calendar in gilt four glass case.
A finely engraved and gilded oval carriage clock with hour repeat and alarm.
A mahogany bow-front stick barometer by this celebrated maker.
A good small mahogany stick barometer with plain round top by this well-known maker.
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.
Brinkman London / G. Hutchinson George IV mahogany, chamfer top bracket with strike/ silent and hour repeat.
A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker.
A fine quality, gorge case carriage clock with grande sonnerie striking and alarm by this celebrated maker.
A fine English striking carriage clock by this well-known maker.
An exceptionally fine mahogany stick barometer.
A rare Act or Parliament or tavern timepiece with shield dial and coloured prints on the trunk door and case.
A panelled marquetry longcase of exceptional proportions and colour with 10" dial and movement of one month duration.
A good provincial lantern clock with hour strike and anchor escapement.
Floor-standing Vienna regulator with grande sonnerie repeat.
A good, small London mahogany longcase with arched brass dial, strike / silent and hour repeat.
A fine English dial with verge escapement and the very rare feature of a calendar aperture.
A fine mahogany bracket clock with verge escapement.
A flat-fronted stick barometer in a well-figured mahogany case by this well-known maker.
A fine and rare large open-faced dial clock.
A fine and very small ebonised bracket clock with three pads and brass mounts by a well-known maker.
A fine, open-fronted, mahogany stick barometer by this well-known partnership.
A fine, small skeleton timepiece of the highest quality.
A mahogany wheel barometer of the highest quality.
An exceptionally fine, seventeenth-century walnut longcase with panelled bird and flower marquetry, 11-inch dial and movement of month duration, all in outstandingly original condition.
A rare and important lantern clock by a little-known South Lancashire maker.
A very good mahogany, bell-top bracket clock with enamel dials, verge escapement and original mounts throughout.
A small and fine mahogany longcase by this well-known maker.
A fine and rare hour striking skeleton clock by these noted makers.
A gorge cased carriage clock with alarm and grande sonnerie striking.
A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with arch dial subsidiaries for date, strike/silent and rise and fall regulation and with verge escapement and pull quarter repeat on six bells.
A fine and small ebonised bracket clock with verge escapement, silent pallets and pull quarter repeat on six bells.
A fine and large lantern clock with original verge escapement and probably of West Country origin.
A mahogany longcase clock in the best Edinburgh tradition with an engraved and silvered arched dial.
A fine skeleton timepiece with "one at the hour" strike by these noted makers.
A good English Dial clock with engraved brass dial and verge escapement.
A very fine Vienna regulator timepiece with one-piece milk glass dial, steel pendulum rod and tapered mahogany case strung with maple.
A fine, ebony veneered bracket clock retaining all the original case mounts and with verge movement, quarter repeating on three bells.
An exceptionally fine, striking verge lantern clock with alarm by the Oxford member of this celebrated family.
An early one-piece carriage clock striking on a bell, by this noted maker.
A finely-proportioned, two-piece, mahogany wheel barometer.
A fine and small Regency rosewood bracket clock with hour strike and repeat.
A good shield dial tavern timepiece with white chapter ring and coloured print on the trunk door.
An eighteenth-century Boulle bracket timepiece with pull quarter repeat on three bells and with its original wall bracket .