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A fine and small walnut longcase clock of rare transitional design.

A fine eight-day chronometer by this celebrated maker in a brass-strung coromandel box.

A longcase clock with moonwork and centre seconds in a pagoda-top case with chinoiserie decoration on a finely faded, brick-red ground.

A fine and rare mahogany stick barometer.

A fine engraved carriage clock with cloissonée side panels and dial mask.

An exceptionally finely preserved tavern or Act of Parliament timepiece, recently removed from the Swan Hotel, Wells.

An exceptionally fine, two-train skeleton clock with quarter strike, horizontal balance with helical hairspring and maintaining power and centre seconds by this celebrated maker, all in original condition.

A good, two-day marine chronometer in a very fine rosewood box.

A grande sonnerie and alarm carriage clock in an engraved case of the fine quality always associated with this maker and retailer.

A fine, two-day marine chronometer by these well-known makers.

A good, rosewood, four-glass clock with hour and 1/2 hour strike and platform lever escapement.

A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, basket-top case.

An exceptionally rare tavern timepiece by this noted partnership.

A fine, eight-day marine chronometer by this celebrated maker, in a rosewood box of the highest quality.

A petite sonnerie carriage clock by this great maker, in an engraved case of the highest quality.

A nineteenth-century English dial of exceptional quality.

A very fine gorge-cased carriage clock with five porcelain panels.

A fine two-day marine chronometer by this excellent maker.

A very fine longcase clock with chinoiserie decoration on a green ground, all in an excellent state of preservation and with dial movement of matching quality.

A bell-top mahogany bracket clock of good proportions and colour.

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 small and finely proportioned mahogany longcase with an elegant, painted dial.

A good mahogany bracket clock with its original wall bracket.

An extremely elegant satinwood balloon bracket clock quarter chiming on eight bells.

A fine mahogany miniature longcase of grandmother clock in a "Gothic" case and with eight-day, hour striking movement.

A small and well-proportioned mahogany longcase clock with arched brass dial with moon and movement of the best London quality.

A small, finely proportioned and exceedingly rare oak longcase clock with 10-inch brass dial and 8-day movement.

A very well-proportioned, 11 1/2- inch, four-piece satinwood wheel barometer.

A good mahogany grandmother clock with arched silvered dial and quarter strike on four or eight bells.

A good, early-nineteenth-century regulator with mercury pendulum and mahogany case with very fine patina in the manner of Barrauds.

A very rare and finely decorated tavern timepiece in a lacquered case of a unique banjo style.

A fine and small Channel Islands longcase clock in a well-figured mahogany case with brass dial and with hour and half-hour strike.

A small and well-proportioned mahogany arch-top bracket clock.

An exceptionally rare mahogany banjo or teardrop weight-driven wall clock with engraved and silvered dial.

A rare mahogany Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece by this fine maker.

A mahogany arch top bracket clock by this noted maker. The image also shows a similar bracket clock signed "J. Thwaites"

A fine, small ebonised bracket clock with brass mounts and enamel dials and with replacement wall bracket.

A fine English dial timepiece with 13-inch silvered dial and verge escapement.

A good, small, brass-inlaid rosewood bracket clock by this fine maker, with replacement wall bracket.

A fine London mahogany longcase clock with several rare features.

A very fine and small mahogany longcase clock in the manner of Vulliamy.

An unusually small and extremely rare shield-dial tavern timepiece in a remarkable state of preservation by this fine Suffolk maker.

An arch-top, mahogany bracket clock by this good maker.

A very fine red lacquer longcase clock by this great maker.

A fine, large mahogany tavern timepiece by this Master of the Clockmakers' Company.

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.

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.