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A very fine and rare George III bracket clock by one of the most eminent clockmaking partnerships.

A most imposing Georgian bracket clock made by one of the finest clockmakers of the period.

These notebooks contain definitions, descriptions, notes and comments on various types and examples of clocks, movements, technical matters etc., with diagrams. Written in neat, almost calligraphic handwriting in black and red ink, they may have initially been compiled as part of a clockmaker's training, as some paragraphs in notebook no. 1 are marked 'very good'. They are captioned 'H. Draisey Esq., clockmaker, 216 Bath Road, Bristol'

107 double-sided pages. Topics include: cosmography and horology, brief history of timepieces and clocks, and descriptions of clepsydra, verges, different types of escapements, wheels and pinions, laws governing the pendulum, etc. With diagrams.

This collection comprises material relating to electrical horology created and collected by Arthur Mitchell. It contains subject and correspondence files concerning electric clock companies worldwide and their products, including the Synchronome Company.

Includes an article from The Horological Journal by Joseph M. Brown, handwritten notes and three photographs.

Edwin Robert Sills (d. 1943) of Tottenham was a watch and chronometer finisher. File includes handwritten letters and an extract from the Clockmakers' Library Catalogue.

Includes a photocopy of an article on "The Description and Use of a Table-Clock" by Benjamin Martin (1704–182), scientific instrument maker, and related correspondence; and Lord Spencer's correspondence with Colonel Quill regarding clocks by Thomas Mudge, with photographs.

Includes correspondence with the Science Museum and other institutions and individuals; copies of the article on "Some Notes on the History of Machine Watchmaking" by Prof. D.S. Torrens (1947); extracts from sales catalogues; notes and correspondence relating to clockmaking tools, and photographs.

Originally untitled, this file contains correspondence, photographs, postcards, notes, catalogue extracts etc. mainly relating to various clocks and watches and their sales. Includes: Delander watch no. 298; a spring balance clock and alarm in a solid rosewood case delivered to the Duke of Leinster in 1826; month–going longcase clock by David Lestourgeon; striking bracket clock by Edward East; Tompion longcase clock.

File marked RC5 and annotated "Roger's father's sketches for various projects" and "Dad's sketches etc, all undated and for various projects". Includes handwritten notes and rough sketches of clock elements and movements.

File marked RC6. Includes typewritten and handwritten alphabetical lists of Essex clock and watchmakers, a list of turret and other public clocks in Essex arranged alphabetically by placename, and two issues of Transactions of Chigwell Local History Society (number 1, 1970 and number 2, 1974).

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 includes a copy of Horlogerie Ancienne (December 1978).

Handwritten script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the Northern Section of the AHS in 1976. Also includes related correspondence.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 101–195 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 300–399 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 400–499 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 500–555 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Bound printed alphabetical list of names of clockmakers, watchmakers, jewellers and other horology-related professionals, compiled by R.F. Carrington from four series of fire policy registers of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company (The London Archives ref. CLC/B/107/02/MS07252–MS07255). Gives name, policy register volume number, placename and occupation.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–7 of the fire policy register MS 7252, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–36 of the fire policy register MS 7255, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

This collection comprises mostly John W. Castle’s correspondence with local authorities of European towns and cities enquiring about famous local clocks, conducted in course of his research for a book about famous clocks of Europe. The files contain information obtained as a result, including photographs and publications. The book has never been published.

Bound typescript, 11 chapters. Contents: 1) A little history; 2) Some lost treasures; 3) The Strasburg Clocks; 4) The Great Clock of Prague; 5) The Astronomical Clock of Lyons; 6) The Jacquemart Clock at Dijon; 7) The Zimmer Clock of Lierre; 8) The Clock Tower of Berne; 9) The Clock of Lund; 10) The Lubeck Clock; 11) Some minor marvels.

This series contains alphabetically arranged subject files of correspondence, photographs, drawings, press cuttings and publications relating mainly to remarkable European clocks.

Typewritten and handwritten. Includes notes on the Mayan calendar with related correspondence with the Legation of Guatemala; notes on the calculation of the birth of Jesus, notes on the months, the calendars of Kalasasaya, Egypt, the Muslim and Jewish calendars, and perpetual calendar; a draft copy of Chapter 1 of "Once Upon a Time", and The Sunday Express article on "When 11 days vanished from the calendar" (31 December 1961).

Includes three photographs of the Dondi Clock and article from Horological Journal (June 1961), and a brochure titles Globes and Spheres by H. von Bertele.

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

Includes an extract from Vitruvius on sundials and waterclocks, a journal page showing "A Strange House in Fex", articles from Newles Practical Mechanics, pages from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide; letters from the Moroccan Embassy in London, The Science Museum, and Prof. Paul D. Espinasse of Hull University, handwritten notes and sketches, and 20 photographs and photographic postcards.

Includes typewritten and printed versions of an article on "The Wells Clock" and six photographic postcards.

Includes typewritten letter, a newspaper cutting with an article on the restoration of the tower, its English translations (handwritten and typed), and a photograph.

Includes handwritten list of Isle of Wight clockmakers 1875–79; scrap notes referring to clockmakers from earlier dates; typescript list of local street and trade directories; 1987 Strike One antique clocks and barometers catalogue brochure (featuring a chronometer by IoW maker Simpson Benzie Cowes); and E.J. Tyler's correspondence with the IoW County Council archivist regarding "Shorto" verge watch owned by William Chiddy.

Includes scrap notes on individual makers 1720–1885, and Hampshire Record Office guide to new public areas.

This series comprises photographs and papers relating to the British Horological Institute’s trips and the “British Clockmaker’s Heritage” exhibition, as well as some later material.

This series contains Lewis S. Northcote's correspondence on horological matters.

Also includes two b/w photographs.

Handwritten copy. Also includes a provisional list of Reading clockmakers.

This series contains prints of Northcote's map of Oxfordshire and an auction catalogue.

Three prints, with a compliment slip from Thanet Printing Works.

Contains sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains typewritten description, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, tracings and sketches. Originally numbered "C52-52a".

Contains one note only.

Contains letter from Mrs F. H. Pratt and sketches of back and front plates.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains letter from 'John', notes and sketches.

Contains tracing of backplate only.

Contains tracings and annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten description, notes, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches, tracings and cutouts.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains annotated sketch.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes and sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains tracings only. No original number. Inserted between files 68 and 69.

37 pages. Includes giant floral clock of Frankfort, Kentucky; astronomical clock at Strasbourg; article on mental clocks "So that's why women are always late..."; 30-hour Tompion clocks; water clocks; Geneva's new automatic clock; turret clock at Lockinge; 93-dial Wonder Clock at Washington Museum; Synchronome clock factory; Tompion clock in Bath Pump Room; Dover Castle clock; "Collecting Old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Edward East, watchmaker to Charles I; sixteenth to eighteenth century table clocks; "Clocks by Thomas Tompion in American Collections"; clocks of Austria, Holland and Germany; clocks of New Zealand, etc.

Typescript, hardback. Includes sections on family trees, name origins, reunions, circulars, obituaries, Honeybone clocks, etc. The Honeybones were Mildred Frederiksen's maternal family; William Abraham (b.1887) was her cousin.

Handwritten, typescript and printed.

Typescript.

Handwritten. Also includes one colour photograph and sketches.

Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.

Printed and typescript, some handwritten.

Typescript and handwritten.

Handwritten. Lectures given by Dr Ward at Chester on 28 September 1979, Cardiff in November 1979 and Leicester on 4 December 1981.

Typescript photocopy. Two copies.

Typescript. Two copies.

Printed, typescript and handwritten.

Printed. Cassette not included. Issued to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' charter.

51 b/w photographs, mostly of groups, events and tours, some captioned. Also includes a poster for "300 Years of Pendulum Clocks", a special exhibition at the Science Museum (Dec 1956–Feb 1957); and a trade card of Joseph Stainton Watch Material Warehouse, Birmingham.

1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.

13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.

Printed. Lot 115 in the auction of fine watches, clocks and scientific instruments on 4 October 1977.

2 b/w photographs. Originally in an envelope labelled "Two photos from B. Bopp".

19 b/w photographs, captioned.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 11 (April 1902), pp. 4ff.

Original pages 53 and 403 from The Connoisseur, vol. 35 no. 137 (January 1913).

Original article from Foreign Trade (February 1934), pp. 21–23.

Original article about a pistol in possession of Sir David Lionel Golsmid-Stern-Salomons, a watch and clock collector, from The Connoisseur, vol. 125 no. 515 (March 1950), pp. 51–52. Pages also include short articles about other, non–horological collectibles.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1951), pp. 17–18. Mentions Adam's bird–cage clock.

Original article in three parts from Apollo (March 1952, May 1952, January 1953). Also includes page 116 from The Connoisseur (n.d.) with a short note about a Bradley clock.

Original article from Antique Collector (December 1958), pp. 211–220.

Original article from the international English edition of La Suisse Horlogère (April 1960), pp. 1–16.

Original article from Antique Collector (February 1961), pp. 3–11.