1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.
Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1983), pp. 34–35.
French perpetual calendar in gilt four glass case.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1955), pp. 28–30.
Two original articles from Newnes Practical Mechanics (February and March 1955), pp. 211–212, 222 and 240–242 respectively. Includes February 1955 issue cover.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1978), p. 77–79.
Original article about longcase clocks of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1990), pp. 44–46.
Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 52–56. Annotated '91A'.
Includes mostly typewritten letters, an excerpt from Chapter 3 of Castle's "Remarkable Clocks", a photograph of Oronce Fine's astronomical clock, and a photograph and copy drawing of De Vick's clock from the Palais de Justice. Also includes typewritten letter from the British Horological Institute .
Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of Wynn's description of his Society of Arts Gold Isis Medal winning invention of a time-keeper and a compensating pendulum (1817). Also includes, as front, C. G. McKay's short letter about William Wynn, published in Antiquarian Horology (Autumn 1977) and a biographical note about Wynn from the ninth edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers.
Original article from The Antique Collector (November 1978), pp. 75–77.
Original article from the Clocks supplement of The Antique Collector magazine (1989), pp. 81–84. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.
Original article from Antique Collecting (September 1994), pp. 10–12. Includes advertisement page for Loomes' book and issue cover.
Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 18–22.
Three prints, with a compliment slip from Thanet Printing Works.
Main dial: olive grey; carnation and vetch corners; bird in centre. False plate: cast iron Wilson.
Images of dials made by Owen & Price, Birmingham dial makers active around 1800.
Two copies of an original article from The Antique Collector (January 1977), pp. 68–72.
Original article from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge, vol. 9 (1952?), pp. 291–224. General editors R.H. Poole and Peter Finch.
Includes H. Otto's and Charles Allix's correspondence with Prof. D.S. Torens, May & Philpot catalogue of furniture auction sale 2 November 1955, photocopy photographs, sketches, and extracts from The Horological Journal.
4 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope marked "Science Museum Property".
Main dial: blue/grey moss roses, top corners with small blue flowers, strawberries bottom. Gilded gesso framing. Strike/silent in breakarch. Two ovals with Plato and Socrates in breakarch, gilded winding holes.
Main dial: blue/grey moss roses, top corners with small blue flowers, strawberries bottom, gilded gesso framing, strike/silent in breakarch, two ovals with Plato and Socrates in breakarch, gilded winding holes.
Main dial: blue/white profiles of Plato and Socrates in breakarch, small strawberries and roses with blue flowers.
Main dial: off-white, dianthus, blue flowers in corners, blue-toned roses in breakarch, decorated gold winding holes.
Main dial: off-white, dianthus, blue flowers in corners; blue toned roses in breakarch, decorated gold winding holes.
Main dial: off-white, small blue and pink flowers in corners, blue-tinged roses in arch.
Moon faces: strong faces, unique. Moon scenes: exquisite detailed paintings, two land scenes.
Main dial: fine painting, girl and boy on the left, fort on the right; oval cutout, very detailed ship, all original.
Main dial: fine painting, girl and boy on the left, fort on the right. Oval cutout, very detailed ship, all original.
Main dial: blue roses, corners distinctive, gesso with bow knots frame, figure of Drama / Melpomene (?) in breakarch, in not quite round gesso frame, bowknots and swags. Stub foot for date. Painted garland across centre hole.
Main dial: off-white, heavy bold gesso corners and breakarch; decorated winding holes.
Main dial: cream breakarch, similar to very early dials, gesso work, pink ovals, corners floral in breakarch. Nice work.
Main dial: creamy, unusual heavy gesso in imitation brass spandrels; rose and buds in breakarch with gesso side pieces; upside-down roses either side of decorated winding holes.
Main dial: flowery gesso corners, bunches of flowers in breakarch, painted fierce bird and sun in breakarch.
Main dial: flowery gesso corners, bunches of flowers in breakarch, painted fierce bird and sun in breakarch.
Main dial: flowery gesso corners, bunches of flowers in breakarch, painted fierce bird and sun in breakarch.
Main dial: arched dial repainted, bird on breakarch, all gesso corners.
Main dial: cream, very fancy gesso corners, gesso in arch of moon. Hemispheres: maps, transfers, unique.
Images of dials made by Osborne & Wilson, Birmingham dial makers active in 1772–77.
Copy of an article on seventeenth-century night clocks, from an unidentified publication.
Original articles from Discovering Antiques no. 34 (1971), pp. 813–816, 793–796, 798–802 and 808–811.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 5 no. 7 (November 1970), pp. 14–17.
Contains three b/w photographs, captioned, showing Princess Alice, Sir Harold Spences Jones, H. Alan Lloyd, Kenneth Pickthorn, Mr Elicott, Dr F. Sherwood Taylor, Lily Hudson and others.
Original article beased on a lecture read on 15 January 1857, from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1987), pp. 11–20.
Original articles from Science News no. 16 (Penguin Books, 1950), pp. 33–39 and 65–77.
Bound copy of an article about acquiring long-case clocks, from an unidentified publication.
Original article from Jeweller and Metalworker (15 December 1950), pp. 1128–1130. Includes a page with portrait photos of James Oakes and E. T. Wright from the June 1950 issue.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1922), pp. 215–222.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1967), pp. 61–63. Also includes A penny plain and twopence coloured, an article on miniature theatres by Frederick Stanley.
Original pages from an unidentified colour magazine, with an artistic photograph of wall clocks of various designs and their prices.
Original article from Antiques (January 1970), pp. 90–95. Includes issue cover.
Includes two typewritten letters and envelope.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 136 no. 547 (September 1955), pp. 22–26.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1955), pp. 29–30.
Photocopy of an obituary of the British scientist, inventor and collector Edward Hall (1924–2001), published in The Times. File also includes photographs of clock movements and a comparison sheet between four Smiths Quartz Movements.
Oaktree Antiques, selling "town and country furniture, longcase clocks and works of art" is based in Marlet Harborough, Leicestershire.
Original article about watch-key collecting, from Arts & Antiques (14 December 1974), pp. 25–27.
Original brochure, with description and photographs, of David Ramsay's star-shaped verge watch (now in the museum collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, who purchased it in 1958).
Printed copy of an article "communicated at Lancaster, 14th September 1933",
Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.
Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and Mirror of Science.
Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.
Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the East Anglian Section of the AHS at Manor House Museum, Bury St Edmunds, on 20 March 1993. 46 pages.
Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the London Section of the AHS at the Science Museum, London, on 21 April 1994. 45 pages. Also includes slides and related correspondence.
Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the Bedfordshire Branch of the BHI at Sherington Village Hall on 22 October 1992. 47 pages.
Handwritten script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the Northern Section of the AHS in 1976. Also includes related correspondence.
This series contains a notebook and a bound typescript of John W. Castle's planned publications.
This series contains Roger Carrington's research papers and presentation scripts relating mainly to clockmaking and watchmaking in the north of England.
This series contains notes, typescripts and publications compiled by Lewis S. Northcote, authored both by himself and others.
Handwritten. Includes: Deutsches Museum Munich, Bayerische Nationalmuseum Munich, Leiden Museum, Swiss museums and private collections (1957), Amsterdam 'Het Atoom' (1957), AHS German Tour 1959, AHS Austrian Tour 1961, and AHS Swiss-Italian Tour 1963.
Photocopy of the English translation of an article originally published in French in vol. 20 no. 21 of Les Comptes Rendus (May 1845). Translation published in Electrical Magazine vol. 2.
Contains handwritten note and a sketch scribbled on the back of an envelope dated 22 September 1936. No original number. Inserted between files 65 and 66.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1975), pp. 69–71.
Original article from Country Life Annual (1956), pp. 180–185.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 70–73.
This collection contains horological correspondence, research notes, photographs and printed material created and compiled by Lewis S. Northcote.
Northcote, LewisOriginal article about fine English furniture collection from Antique Collector (June 1986), pp. 90–97.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1978), p. 90–92.
Images of dials made by the Nicholas brothers, Birmingham factors and dial makers active in the 1790s–1820.
This series contains prints from microfilms and photocopies of British newspaper extracts mentioning seventeenth- and eighteenth-century watches and watchmakers, compiled and annotated by Jeremy Evans. The newspapers include mainly the Daily Advertiser and other contemporary local papers such as The London Gazette, but twentienth-century catalogues and other publications are also present. Topics include mainly losses or thefts of watches, but also sales of goods, debts, bankruptcies, marriages, deaths, wills, appointments, absconsions, elopements, criminal charges, etc. The files also include some photographs of watches and clocks. Please note that some of the microfilm prints are not easily legible and in a few cases Jeremy Evans' attempts to decipher or identify the surnames were tentative, and alterative spellings of surnames are often provided.
Includes articles about the clock sculpture in Gare St Lazare in Paris, the selling exhibition at Liberty, and heirloom Ducrow clock from the Weekend Telegraph (1994, 1995); long-case clocks and other "antiques of the future", and purchase of "the ultimate circuit timers" from The Daily Telegraph (1994, 1996).
Original page with news and book reviews from Antique Collector (August 1960). Includes a review of Clock and Watch Makers in Wales, a book by Iorweth C. Peate.
Photocopy of an article from Pracitcal Engineering (13 January 1950), pp. 8–9.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie, pp. 364–66. Annotated '83'.
Printed, typescript and handwritten.
Includes catalogues, brochures, historical notes, photographs and related correspondence.
Moon faces: pop-eyed, eyes quite close together. Moon scenes: ship at sea; girl pointing at sea, painted by same artist as dial corners.
Main dial: off-white, four-seasons corners, not Wilson artist, gold band. Hemispheres: late-Wilson type, ecliptic below equator on North America. False plate: very interesting Wilson.
Images of dials made by N. Porter, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1810.
Original article about musical boxes from Art & Antiques Weekly (13–19 February 1981), pp. 20–23.
Original article from Antique Collector (February 1980), pp. 62–64.
A fine overture box by these great makers, playing three airs.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1969), pp. 60–63. Includes issue cover.
Two copies of an original article about musical boxes and clocks from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1972), pp. 80–81.
Includes typewritten letters and a brochure titled Das Münchner Rathaus und sein Glockenspiel.