Makers' surnames include: Peachy, Peachey, Peacock, Pearson, Peirson, Pierson, Peckham, Pedler, Pegg, Peke, Pellettier, Pellour, Penavayre, Penkethman, Penlease, Penton, Penn, Pennington, Penny, Penticross [Pentecost ?], Penton, Pepfenhauser, Pepin, Pepper [?], Pepys, Percival, Perier, Perigal, Perrigal, Perkins, Perries, Perrin, Perins, Perrins, Perry, Perry & Price, Peters, Peterson, Petit, Petty, Pew, Peyton.
Makers' surnames include: A. R., Rabe, Rabby, Radford, Ragg, Paynisford, Rainsford, Raynsford, Ram, Ramsden, Ran, Ranals, Ranales, Rand, Randell, Ranson, Rant, Rape, Rapson, Rasanwarne [Rawsthorne ?], Rasberry, Raules, Ravenshaw, Rawlings, Rawlinson, Raworth, Rey, Ray, Rayment, Raymond, Rayne, Rayner, Read, Reader, Reaplin, Recordon, Reddish, Redknap, Redol, Reeve, Reeves, Regard, Regiem, Reigem, Reilly, Reipolt, Reith, Renou, Renow, Rewalling, Reyendorff, Reym, Reynolds, Rhodes.
Makers' surnames include: To[...], Todd, Tolson, Tollison [?], Tombs, Tomkin, Tomkins, Tomlin, Tomlinson, Tompion, Tomson, Ton, Topping, Torado, Torboch, Torin, Torrop, Tortore, Toulmin, Towler, Towne, Townele, Townsend, Tracy, Travis, Tree [?], Trebor, Tregent, Tregidgeon, Trenholm, Trent, Trestam, Tribe, Trigge, Triggs, Trinall, Trippett, Trosillon, Trossy, Trout, Trowe, Trubshaw, Trusted, Tucker, Tuckey, Tudman, Turner, Turquand, Tuttell, Tyler.
Makers' surnames include: Witham, Wickstead, Whittyat, Whitwell, Wiege, Wightman, Wightwick, Wightwick & Moss, Wigley, Wikelman, Wilbraham, Wilcocks, Wild, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Will, Willats, Willett, Williams, Williamson, Willioc, Willis [?], Willoughby, Wills, Willsnam, Wilmot, Wilmott, Willmott, Wilmshurst, Wilsdon, Wilsman, Wilsmore, Wilson, Wilter, Wimble, Wimple, Winder, Windsor, Wing, Wingfield, Winkels, Winnell, Wynnell, Winrow, Winrowe, Wint, Winter, Wirgman, Wise, Wiseman, Wickell, Witchell, Whichwell, Witcher, Witham, Withers, Withill, Withy.
Makers' surnames include: Abbott, Abdell, Abraham, Ackerley, Adamson, Ainsley, Alder, Aldworth, Alexander, Alfield, Allam, Allaway, Allsop / Alsop / Alsope, Amyot, Anderton, Andrews, Appleford, Appley, Archambo, Archer, Argos, Arnold, Ashbrook, Ashton, Aslat, Asselin, Aubert, Austin, Avenell, Aylward, Aynsworth, Ayres.
Makers' surnames include: Bailey, Baker, Barber, Barnes, Barnet, Barnett, Barraud, Barrett, Barron, Barrow, Baseley, Bayford, Bayley, Beake, Beale, Beavis, Bedford, Behoe, Bennet, Bennett, Berry, Bertram, Bewley, Bicknill, Bilbie, Billings, Billop, Bird, Birt, Blackborough, Blackbourn, Blake, Blanchard, Blundell, Booth, Boreham, Bouquet, Bowyer, Boyce, Bradford, Bradley, Brafield, Brass, Bridge, Bridgman, Brooking, Brooks, Brown, Browne, Bryan, Buckingham, Bull, Bunce, Burges, Burgis, Burputt.
Makers' surnames include: Cabrier, Caldwell, Callam, Calver, Cam, Cannon, Card, Carrington, Carte, Carter, Cartwright, Catlin, Chapman, Chater, Chilcott, Chotard, Church, Clapot, Clark, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clegg, Clement, Clifton, Clowes, Cockey, Cole, Collins, Colston, Cook, Cooper, Cooper & Hedge, Corderoy, Corless, Coulon, Covington, Coward, Cox, Craig, Creak, Cressener, Crockford, Crolee, Cromey, Crosbey, Crow, Crucefix, Crucifix, Cruttenden, Cumming.
Makers' surnames include: Jackeman, Jackman, Jackson, Jacob, Jacques, James, Jarrat, Jarratt, Jeffreys, Jenkins, Jerman, Jersey, Jercelin, Jobson, Johnson, Jones, Jordain / Jourdain / Jourdian, Joyce.
Makers' surnames include: Lakin, Lambe, Lambert, Langford, Latham, Lawley, Leadbetter, Le Bass, Le Count / Lecount, Ledgard, Lee, Leigh, Lester, Lestourgeon, Lindsay, Lock, London, Longland, Lovelace, Lowndes, Lowry, Lugg, Lumpkin, Lyons, Lys.
Makers' surnames include: Macham, Maggs, Mallet / Mallett, Manley, Margetts, Markham, Markwick, Marsh, Marshall, Martin, Martineau, Mason, Massam, Massey, Massy, Matham, Matthew, May, Mayhew, McCabe, Meredith, Mariton, Meriman, Merryman, Michel, Miller, Molyneux, Moncrief, Monkhouse, Moore, Mory, Morgan, Morland, Muddle, Mudge, Mundey, Murdock, Murphy.
Makers' surnames include: Nash, Neale, Newbrough, Newborough, Newby, Newton, Nicholls, Nickals, Norcott, Norris, Northcote, Northey, Norton, Nourse, Ogden, Olden, Ollive, Orton, Osborne, Overzee.
Makers' surnames include: Yeates, Yoakley, Young, Younge.
Makers' surnames include: Galabin, Garner, Garon, Gerrard, Giroust, Goddard, Godden, Godfrey, Goode, Goubert, Gould, Grace, Grant, Grantham, Gray, Green, Greenhill, Gregg, Gregory, Grevill, Grey, Gribelin, Guepin, Guiguer, Gwilt.
Makers' surnames include: Pain, Panchaud, Papavoine, Pare, Peckover, Pepys, Perigal, Perinot, Perry, Penny, Philp, Pinchbeck, Pingo, Pistor, Pleydell, Pluet, Poy, Prevost, Prime, Prior, Procter, Pryor, Puller, Purden, Pyke.
Makers' surnames include: Sadler, Sanderson, Sands, Scafe, Scott, Sebire, Seddon, Seymour, Sharpe, Shaw, Shepley, Simon, Simpson, Sly, Smalley, Smith, Snelling, Snow, Somersall, Speakman, Spencer & Perkins, Squire, Stanton, Steevens, Steiner, Stephens, Stone, Stones, Story, Strelley, Strigel, Stubbs, Style, Sully, Sympson.
Makers' surnames include: Unite, Urquhart, Van Stryp, Vauguion, Vernier, Vernon, Vick, Viet, Vulliamy.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, clock descriptions, brochures, journal articles, cutouts of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Includes correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, journal articles, draft articles, photographs and notes.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings.
Includes correspondence, copies of watch databases, transcripts and copies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers, photocopies of journal articles, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.
Includes correspondence, copies of eighteenth-century newspapers, newspaper articles, sales brochures, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.
Makers' surnames include: Adamson, Aske, Barnett, Bennett, Beyer, Boyce, Bradford, Buckenhill. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Makers' surnames include: Halstead, Halsted, Harris, Harrys, Harvey, Haughtin, Hodgkin, Holloway, Huddleston, Hudson. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
This collection comprises a series of eleven scrapbooks and one volume of Honeybone family history. The scrapbooks contain photographs, press cuttings, brochures, booklets, postcards, drawings, cartoons, typewritten quotations, handwritten notes, excerpts from fiction, music scores and other ephemera related to clockmaking and watchmaking, collected by Mildred Frederiksen. The descriptions of each volume in this catalogue provide contents highlights, but do not list every item. Most items are not individually dated.
Sem título37 pages. Includes address on "Our Ancestors' Clocks and Watches" by M.F. Frederiksen; astronomical clock on Strasburg Cathedral; "Pendulum to Atom" booklet for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute at Goldsmiths' Hall; "Collecting old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Conquete du Temps (booklet presented to visitors of the Swiss Pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition 1958); "Time in Broadcasting' (BBC Booklet produced for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute); Burgos Cathedral clock, Spain; clocks of Southwark and Clerkenwell; Zimmer Tower astronomical clock at Lierre, Belgium; flower clocks; British horologists; atomic clock; clocks of Bornholm; Buenos Aires "Big Ben" clock; world's largest electric clock; work of summer time clock changers; English ormolu mounts; Black Forest cuckoo clocks; Big Ben centenary; broadcast of "Ancient clocks of the West of England"; clocks of Germany and Switzerland; Kravchenko's Sputnik Clock; English church clocks; music scores for "My Grandfather's Clock" by Henry C. Work and "Song of the Clock" by Rex Burchell; early English watches, etc.
Malcolm Gardner (1896–1960) was an antiquarian horologist, horological consultant and bookseller, and Charles Allix's business partner. Robert Gardner (1851–1932), his father, was a manufacturer of marine chronometers. Includes: Robert's and Malcolm's original business correspondence (handwritten and typewritten); published "horological who's who" biographical note on Malcolm; published obituaries of Robert and Malcolm; business certificates; Charles Allix (Malcolm Gardner) Horological Book Catalogue flyers; and Charles Allix's handwritten copy letter to "Sandra" on the death of her father Richard J. Coates.
Lieutenant-Commander Rupert Thomas Gould (1890–1948) was an author, broadcaster and horologist, and the author of The Marine Chronometer, its History and Development as well as Big Ben: Its Story and other publications. File includes typewritten correspondence relating to the publication of the Big Ben: its Story booklet; Gould's original correspondence; copies of Gould's art prints and sketches; research notes, correspondence and book catalogue entry relating to Gould's publications; drawing print of "Good Master Hydrographer, chart me the unknown seas"; and an annotated folder, with list of contents, entitled "In Memory..." and containing among other things: copies of the Horological Journal of November 1948 and The HIA Journal with letters on the death of Gould, a copy of a page from NAWCC Bulletin of June 1950 with a photograph of Gould with Harrison's Timekeeper no. 2, and pasted handwritten notes and correspondence.
Includes copies of articles from The Horological Journal and other publications, many of them antiquarian; Watch and Chronometer Jewelling booklet by N.B. Sherwood (Chicago, n.d.); notes, related correspondence and 1 photograph. Annotated "see also the Banger watch file" (ref. ALL/01/001).
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.
Includes an article from The Horological Journal by Joseph M. Brown, handwritten notes and three photographs.
Includes Sabrier's articles "Une Montre Expérimentale de Ferdinand Berthoud" and "Un Échappement a Roue de Rencontre sur Deux Niveaux", photographs and relates correspondence. Also includes papers relating to Pasquale Andervalt gas-wound clock.
These albums contain images of clocks which went through the business, together with typed "descriptive tickets", i.e. one-page detailed descriptions of the clocks and their cases, dials and movements, prices, as well as biographical notes about the makers and references to published sources. Some clock photographs are included without the descriptive tickets, and conversely, some descriptive tickets do not have accompanying photographs, which are often annotated as having been lent to various individuals or institutions.
66 double-sided pages. Topics include: balance / hair spring, balance staff, remontoire movement, music as applied to horology, the best bells to use when fitting chime clock's hammers, accepting orders for large turret clocks, carillions, pendulum lengths, silvering clock dials, recipe for cleaning solution, sidereal and solar days, meridian dial, early clocks, etc. Also includes loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.
121 pages. Topics include: turret clocks, new chime machinery (by Gillett & Bland and Lund & Blockley), clock hammers, public clock specifications, train remontoires, bells, etc. Also includes a list of great belles pasted in at the end, and loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.
2 pages only, written on the insides of hardback covers removed from a notebook (notebook not present)
This series contains cutouts and photocopies of twentieth-and early twenty-first-century catalogue entries and advertisements describing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century longcase clocks, annotated by Jeremy Evans. The files also include photographs and some related correspondence and reports.
This series contains cutouts and photocopies of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century catalogue entries and advertisements describing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century bracket clocks, annotated by Jeremy Evans. Some files also include photographs, journal articles and related correspondence and reports.
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'
Main dial: arched dial repainted, bird on breakarch, all gesso corners.
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, dianthus, blue flowers in corners; blue toned roses in breakarch, decorated gold winding holes.
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: off-white, small blue and pink flowers in corners, blue-tinged roses in arch.
Main dial: blue/grey, flowing gesso corners. Hemispheres: wide, North America, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: blue/grey, strawberries and primulas in corners, gesso framing.
Main dial: gesso corners with coloured ovals, fine painted hunting scene in breakarch, framed with gesso, gilded winding holes.
Main dial: blue-toned roses in corners, framed with dot gesso.
Main dial: blue/grey, vetch and roses corners, gesso-framed, bird with nest and roses in breakarch.
Moon faces: pop-eyed. Moon scenes: land scene and battle at sea (cut in half by clockmaker and pinned on to main dial; other half?).
Main dial: grey/blue, off-white, roses and strawberry top corner, roses bottom, two gilt sprigs either side of date dial, gilded winding holes. Hemispheres: odd maps, North America, ecliptic below equator, gold rim.
Main dial: off-white, brilliant Christmas cracker decoration in corners, some gold leaf (see slide 850, also a suspect repaint, Wilson has the same bright colouring).
Main dial: pale blue/grey, small roses in corners with dot gesso oval and gesso flourishes, moss roses centre. Hemispheres: North America with ecliptic.
Main dial: blue/grey, very dark blue ovals in corners with gesso. Moon faces: pop-eyed. Moon scenes: lady by seaside with anchor and dismasted ship in gale (this artist specialised in death and destruction at sea).
Main dial: grey/blue, all transfer print decoration, breakarch identical to dial 616 (Wilson square). Made for Thomas Gammon of Hereford 1774–1786.
Main dial: blue/grey, strawberries and auriculas with blue flowers corners, gesso framing, long-necked birds in centre. Hemispheres: maps upside-down.
Main dial: blue/grey, diamond gesso, spandrel corners, floral and scrolling either side of high oval in breakarch, fine painting of lady with lady with dog in oval.
Main dial: roses and carnations corners, no gesso, bird with strawberries in breakarch.
Main dial: probably blue/grey, honeysuckle and anemone corners, no gesso, roses in centre; bird, strawberries and auriculas in breakarch, two lines at base of breakarch.
Main dial: off-white, orangey roses centre, honeysuckle and auriculas corners, gesso-framed. Hemispheres: maps, narrow USA, ecliptic above equator.
Moon faces: round-eyed, slightly 'pop'. Moon scenes: landscape done by breakarch painter of dial 1526; very rare St Luke on other side.
Main dial: pale blue/grey, ovals in blue corners with gesso scrolling, orange red roses in centre.
Main dial: blue/grey, gold band, four seasons, long faces. Hemispheres: good maps (original but dirty).
Main dial: blue/grey, gold band, four seasons, long faces. Hemispheres: good maps (original but dirty).
Main dial: blue/grey, gold band, four seasons, long faces. Hemispheres: good maps (original but dirty).
Main dial: blue/grey, roses top, ranunculus bottom, primroses and small blue flowers dial centre. Hemispheres: odd maps, gold star on moon post, maps gold edged.
Moon faces: same as Bubwith.
Main dial: primrose.
Main dial: blue/grey, unusual transfer around name with birds.
Main dial: blue/grey, long-tailed bird in centre.
Main dial: gesso corners, maritime scene in arch, decorated date grommets.
Main dial: off-white, very absorbent surface, modified fan corners, green fans, pale pink border, muted colours. Hemispheres: upside-down maps.
Images of dials made by James Wilson, a renowned Birmingham dial maker active in the 1760s–1800s.
Main dial: ranunculus and moss roses gesso-framed corners. Hemispheres: untouched; North America, ecliptic above equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: moon missing; ranunculus and vetch gesso-framed corners. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic above equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: gesso-framed four-seasons white-faced ladies in corners. Hemispheres: narrow; North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: flowers in centre, unrestored.
Main dial: carnations and yellow ranunculus corners; line-framed gold band around chapter ring; two ships in centre. False plate: double Wilson CI.
Moon faces: round-eyed, serious. Moon scenes: two cottages with landscapes, well painted.
Main dial: blue-grey; two Osborne-type long-necked birds in centre; tulips and strawberry corners with gesso framing. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: roses and ranunculus gesso-framed corners; burnt dial, small. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: Ainsworth Warrington on movement. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; nigella and cherries; no gesso; fine transfer print of cartouche containing name.
Moon faces: rather smiling. Moon scenes: ship at sea; landscape with house and tower.
Main dial: blue-petalled roses and strawberries, blue small flowers; fine gesso framing corners; garland centre. Hemispheres: early cut-off type, narrow USA. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: poppies and roses gesso-framed corners; roses in centre. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; pink roses and anemones gesso-framed corners; elaborate ribbon with scrolling below date. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: round-eyed, pensive. Moon scenes: two land scenes cottage; building with tower.
Main dial: orange red rose and vetch gesso-framed corners; rather Osbourne-type birds centre. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four seasons ladies in gesso-framed corners. Hemispheres: good maps.
Main dial: vetch gesso-framed corner; motto in breakarch "Sic Est Vita Hominis". Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: round-eyed. Moon scenes: two land scenes, both with some water.
Main dial: blue-grey; roses and ranunculus or anemones corners; no gesso.
Main dial: anemones and strawberry corners; heavy cartouche with flowers and scrolling name inside; medium birds in breakarch.
Main dial: blue-grey; strawberries and tulips gesso-framed corners; two fat birds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: well-painted dianthus or carnations and cherries gesso-framed corners; anemones in breakarch with gesso and scrolling. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; peony and auriculas or primulas in corners, gesso-framed; two long-tailed birds with flowers. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; vetch in centre.