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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.

Contains one b/w photograph, captioned, pasted onto card. Caption does not give the names of people in the image.

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.

Includes note on sources and abbreviations. Names include Nicholas Kratzer, Anthony Crasillon, Sebastian (Bastian) Lesseney (Lesney / Le Sene) , Nicholas Urseau, Peter Dellamere, Bartholomew Newsam, Randolph Bull and others.

Names include mainly Thomas Herbert, but also Mansell Bennett, Thomas Tompion and Joseph Antram.

Includes newspaper cuttings about clock and watch sales.

Includes signed typescript of L. Northcote's review of Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850 by C.F.C. Beeson (1962); typescript of "Electronics in Timekeeping", a lecture given to the Electrical Horology Group by J.D. Weaver at the Science Museum (6 Dec 1975); typescript of an article on "The Watchmaker's Guild of Copenhagen" (n.d.), and handwritten notes and comments on the Flamsteed / Towneley correspondence and Towneley's pallets as revised by Tompion.

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

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

This collection comprises Philip Thornton’s reports, notes, sketches and tracings which document the repairs and restorations of mainly bracket clocks, carried out by him primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, with a few later instances. Most papers record the date of restoration and the name of the client. The files vary in size and content from single pieces of scrap paper to more comprehensive bundles containing condition reports and detailed large-format drawings. Many of the papers are in very fragile condition.

This collection comprises Philip Thornton’s reports, notes, sketches and tracings which document the repairs and restorations of mainly bracket clocks, carried out by him primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, with a few later instances. Most papers record the date of restoration and the name of the client. The files vary in size and content from single pieces of scrap paper to more comprehensive bundles containing condition reports and detailed large-format drawings. Many of the papers are in very fragile condition.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains typewritten description, handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains one tracing of backplate only.

Contains typewritten description, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains tracings of plate only.

Contains handwritten note and tracings.

Contains two tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes and sketches.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings. Annotated "see photos" but no photographs are included in the file.

Contains one sheet of notes with tracings.

Contains handwritten report, notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains tracings and annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one tracing only.

Contains handwritten notes and sketches.

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.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches, tracings and a b/w photograph. No original number. Inserted next to file 26.

This series contains scrapbooks of press cuttings, excerpts from publications and ephemera relating to horological news and curiosities.

41 pages. Includes royal palace clocks; clocks of Salzburg, Loches and Milan; the Christ (or the Twelve Apostles) clock at Goslar, Germany; clocks around the world (Ceylon, the USA, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Poland) and Britain; Michael Bateman's article on "Timing the Future"; watch exhibition at the Hague; Big Ben; Wells Cathedral clock; Timex Time through the ages brochure; tower clocks; notes on curious types of clocks (shadow clock, clock jacks, silent clock, Act of Parliament clock, water clock, sundial stained glass window); Alex Lloyd's article on collecting old clocks; Salisbury Cathedral clock; sundials; Jens Olsen's clock; clocks at the Nottingham Antiques Exhibition; clocks of Rothenburg and Nuremburg, etc.

41 pages. Includes Honeybone clock at Bristol; clock collection at Belper; "From Clock-watch to Wrist Watch" and "The Rare Grandmother Clock”, articles from Country Life Annual 1955; "Sixteenth century and earlier public clocks" list by G. H. Baillie; clocks of Denmark, Holland and Germany; clocks of Coventry and Winchester; auction sale of Tompion long case clock; "A clock to time the Earth", an article on John Harrison by Alben Philips; floral clocks; copy will of Thomas Honeybone; extract from Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey; Jens Olsen's world clock brochure; Guinness Festival Clock; Westminster Abbey clock overhaul; The Musselburgh Tolboth clock; Ilbert horological collection; the world' first astronomical clock at the Science Museum; extract from The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

This series contains a typescript volume of Honeybone family history.

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.

Typescript. Also includes related postcards, negatives, exhibition catalogues, captioned photographs of exhibits; and "Gothic Clocks", a bound article by H. Alan Lloyd from "The Antique Collector" (June 1962).

Typescript and printed. Also includes 3 b/w photographs.

Typescript and handwritten.

Typescript.

Handwritten. Also includes one colour photograph and sketches.

Handwritten and typescript. Also includes photographs of a clock in a painting by Pontorno, and of the market square in Haarlem.

Typescript.

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.

Printed and typescript, some handwritten.

Mostly typescript, one handwritten. Lectures include "Physics in Time Measurement"; "Bells and Bell Founding" by Douglas Hughes; "Captain Cook's Timekeepers" and "The Clocks of Greenwich Observatory 1675–1930" by Lt. Cdr. H. D. Howse; and two untitled ones. Also includes a description of sidereal clock made by John Shelton.

Photocopy typescripts.

Printed and typescript.

Handwritten. Also includes a typescript letter from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, regarding Dr Ward's request for a photograph (not included), and the Museum's postcard showing a Roman vertical disc dial c.250 AD.

Typescript.

Printed.

8 b/w photographs, captioned. Includes Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Technical Museum, Österreichisches Museum für Angewndte Kunst, Hans von Bertele Collection and Sobeck Collection. Also includes a page from "Deutsche Uhrmacher Zeitschrift" (May 1961). Typescript and handwritten

2 b/w photographs. From the Science Museum.

15 b/w photographs. Guests include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harris, Dr Ward and others. File also includes a bound article on the Wuppertal Clock and Watch Museum by Allan Lloyd, from "The Antique Collector" (Oct 1966).

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

1 b/w photograph and 1 colour postcard. Also includes Dr Moore's letter to Musée du Château de Blois, with request for a photographic copy of another painting (photo not included).

9 b/w captioned photographs and 4 postcards. Also includes handwritten notes.

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

2 b/w photographs, captioned.

6 b/w photographs, captioned.

Original reviews from "The Connoisseur Bookshelf" section of The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 57–60. Also includes reviews of non-horological books.

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

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1952), pp. 34–35.

Four original pages from various issues of The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1956, November 1976, October 1986).

Original pages from The Connoisseur (January 1957), pp. 263–266, including a short article about Un chef–d'œuvre de l'horologerie anglaise.

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.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 158 (January 1965), pp. 46–47. Covers Italian art at the Queen's Gallery, American Grenadier's cap, Langley Bradley of St Paul's and Antiques Fairs.

Original article from Antique Collector (April 1966), pp. 51–62.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 5 no. 5 (September 1970), pp. 24–26.

Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 9 no. 4 (April 1974), pp. 6 and 18–19.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 8 no. 11 (March 1974), pp. 33–35.

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "A".

Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 42–45. Includes issue cover.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1989), pp. 35–37.

Original article from Endeavour (January 1954), pp. 17–21.

Original article from Antique Collecting (March 1979), pp. 22–24. Also includes pp. 17–21 with advertisements and "Where to buy clocks" clock shop directory.

The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "B".

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 8 (January 1979), pp. 25–27.

Original article from Antique Collector (August 1986), pp. 40–45.

Photocopy of chapter 1 of unidentified publication.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie, pp. 364–66. Annotated '83'.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1987), pp. 70–71.

Original article from an unidentified publication, pp. 48–52.

Original article about address given to to the Royal Society of Arts on 14 February 1946, from Jeweller and Metalworker (1 March 1946), pp. 138–144.

Original article from Antique Collector (January 1975), pp. 29–33.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 10 no. 6 (October 1975), pp. 16–19.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 5 (January 1903), pp. 30–33.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1965), pp. 51–52.

Original lecture in three parts from the Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. 29 (July 1881), pp. 663–671, 673–698 and 701–726.