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.
Images of dials made by Thomas Hadley Osborne, a Birmingham dial maker who started his own dial manufactory after the dissolution of the Wilson & Osborne partnership in 1777.
Main dial: diamond, gilded gesso in corners, scene gesso, framed farm scene in breakarch, curved date aperture, grommets in winding holes.
Moon faces: slightly pop-eyed, one with eyes very close together. Moon scenes: ship at anchor by rocky cove; curious volcano-like structure with tree.
Main dial: dotted oval and spandrel-type corners, fancy gesso breakarch grommets used in winding holes.
Main dial: blue/grey, anemones and strawberry corners, long-necked birds in centre and no gesso.
Main dial: off-white, fan and oval corners, very bright bird in reeds in centre.
Moon faces: pop-eyed. Moon scenes: landscape with two standing figures; ship on fire at sea (another example of the pop-eyed moon artist looking at death and destruction at sea).
Main dial: blue-petalled roses and ranunculus, corners framed with dot gesso, gold leaf shells in breakarch corners. Automata has coastal scene with ship missing (ship taken from Wilson).
Main dial: pale blue/grey, auriculas and nasturtiums gesso-framed corners, surprised-looking long tailed bird in breakarch with bachelor's buttons.
Main dial: blue/grey, pale, pears and strawberry gesso-framed corners. Hemispheres: maps too small for hemispheres.
Moon faces: pleasant. Moon scenes: ship at sea; girl with wings on her feet, holding flowers.
Main dial: blue/grey, four seasons ladies, rather skinny-faced and awkward postures. Hemispheres: good maps, America, with ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: badly damaged, heavy overpainting, graphics.
Main dial: blue/grey, corners gesso oval with dots surrounding blue pink and red flowers, oval gesso acanthus also in corners, nigella and palm leaf centre.
Main dial: gold shells in corners with framing, thin dial plate.
Main dial: miniature of Nelson, breakarch with gold flag and lion (battle of the Nile?), gold flag, drum and flag corners in gold band.
Main dial: blue/grey, carnations and honeysuckle corners, auricula in breakarch with springs.
Main dial: blue/grey, shield shaped gesso corners, moss roses centre. Hemispheres: very good maps, same as Byrne. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue/grey, roses and tiger lilies, small blue flowers corners. Hemispheres: good maps, part outside numbers. False plate: cast iron (clear).
Main dial: peaches and gold band corners, maps.
Main dial: dark-blue background to corners, small orange flowers with bird and gold ends, bird centre.
Main dial: gold flowers corners, scene of "cottage cares" in breakarch.
Two moon dials, refferring to 509 and 516.
Main dial: four continents corners, [seated dark-skinned figure]. Hemispheres: girls under trees in humps.
Main dial: deer in corners, two ruins centre.
Main dial: green background, red roses, corners gold ends. Hemispheres: maps.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1968), pp. 70–76.
Original article from Country Life Annual (1955), pp. 149–150.
Original articles from The Connoisseur (September and November 1937), pp. 123–130 and 246–252 respectively.
Two original articles from Antique Collector (August and September 1987), pp. 68–74 and 108–115 respectively.
Original article from Discovering Antiques, issue 57 (1971), pp. 1362–1365.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 188 no. 756 (February 1975), pp. 116–123.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1955), pp. 29–30.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (Jan 1959), pp. 19–20.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 39 no. 3 (October 1985), pp. 82–84.
Original article about 'longcases that tell you more than the time' from Art and Antiques Weekly, vol. 19 no. 9 (28 June 1975), pp. 22–25. Also includes the issue cover and editorial page with list of contents.
Original article from Antique Collector (October 1969), pp. 210–215.
Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 10 no. 4 (August 1975), pp. 8–9, 24–25.
Original article from Antique Collecting vols. 13 no. 2 (June 1978), pp. 38–39.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 19 no. 3 (July/August 1984), p. 85.
Photocopy of an article from Pracitcal Engineering (13 January 1950), pp. 8–9.
Articles from the original special clocks and watches issue of Art and Antiques Weekly, vol. 35 no. 3 (January 1979). Also includes list of dealers, advertisement pages and issue cover.
Photocopy of a section of the "Industries" chapter of A History of the County of Lancaster, ed. By William Farrer and J. Brownbill (The Victoria History of the Counties of England series, 1908), pp. 366–367.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (December 1956), pp. 79–86.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 5 no. 7 (November 1970), pp. 14–17.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1954), pp. 35–36.
Original article from The Listener (24 October 1957), pp. 651–652.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 9 (January 1977), pp. 9–13.
Original article about a collection of English furniture, clocks and barometers sold at Christie's on 5 December 1991, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 8 (October 1991), pp. 6–7. Also includes The Murad III globes by Tom Lamb, pp. 8–9.
Original article from an unidentified publication, pp. 76–79.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1990), pp. 93–96. Also includes pages with antique dealer advertisements.
Original article from Communication no. 76 du Musée national d'Histoire des Sciences exactes et naturelles à Leyde, Hollande (n.d.), pp. 294–297.
Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 147–151.
Photocopy of an article from Country Life (26 February 1987), pp. 72–75. Includes "List of known stained-glass sundials in windows".
Original article from Apollo (December 1949), pp. 169–171.
Reprint of an article from M&E Engineers Digest (June 1978), pp. 15–19. The author was resident engineer at the Palace of Westminster.
Original articles from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 345–352. Annotated '91.A' and '91.H'.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 191–192. Annotated '82'.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 404–416. Annotated '82'.
Original article, probably from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 77–82. Annotated '83'.
Original article about the history of French clocks from Discovering Antiques no. 28 (n.d.), pp. 664–667.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1984), pp. 51–53.
Original article from Art & Antiques Weekly (19–25 September 1980), pp. 20–23.
Original article from Antiques (October 1986), pp. 756–767.
Original article from Antique Collector (January 1976), pp. 22–26. Also includes issue cover.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "G".
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 497–499, 527. Annotated '91A'.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 14 no. 6 (November 1979), p. 20.
Original article from Antique Collecting (March 1986), pp. 30–33. Also includes Where to buy clocks directory.
Original article about the clock market from Antique Collecting, vol. 24 no. 3 (July/August 1989), p. 9.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 220–225 (annnotated '91B').
Original article from The Connoisseur (May 1971), pp. 13–22.
Original article, based on a talk given on the BBC North of England Home Service on 11 October 1945, from Jeweller and Metalworker (1 November 1945), pp. 572–574.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 2 (June 1978), pp. 48–49.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 166 no. 670 (December 1967), pp. 213–221.
Original article about gold alloys and hallmarks from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 9 (February 1983), pp. 37–39.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1975), pp. 116–117.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 84–85.
Original articles from Science News no. 16 (Penguin Books, 1950), pp. 33–39 and 65–77.
Original article from Antique Collectors' Club (October 1977), pp. 2–3.
Original article from Science News no. 38 (Penguin Books, 1955), pp. 101–105.
Original article from The Connoisseur (February 1969), pp. 111–114.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 150 no. 604 (June 1962), pp. 78–91.
Original article about Charles Spindler and his furniture, from The Antique Collector (May 1985), pp. 34–39.
Original article from Art & Antiques (8 April 1972), pp. 16–19.
Original article about nineteenth-century precision instruments from The Antique Collector (February 1976), pp. 30–33.
Original article from The Antique Collector (n.d.), pp. 212–214.