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A very fine mahogany Laterndluhr of eight days' duration and with grande sonnerie striking.

A Laterndluhr timepiece of the finest quality with movement of one-month duration.

A grande sonnerie Laterndluhr of the highest quality.

An exceptionally fine Laterndluhr timepiece of one-month duration.

A very fine Viennese mahogany Laterndluhr with grande sonnerie striking and of 8 days duration.

A very finely proportioned mahogany Laterndluhr timepiece.

Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 143–148. Annotated '91C'.

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 from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 146–149. Annotated '91.A'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 439–444. Annotated '91A'.

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 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'.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the AHS at the City of London Guildhall on 20 February 1997. Includes slides, draft summary of the lecture by J.A. Neale, and related correspondence.

18 b/w captioned photographs and 3 postcards. Includes regulator clocks, pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks, reconstructions of Hugyens' marine clocks, airpumps, apparatus for measuring centrifugal forces, and Christiaan Hugyens portrait. All photographs endorsed 'Copyright Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden'.

Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 283–286. Annotated '81'.

Original article about eighteenth–century scientific instruments for measuring, surveying, navigation and time telling from Antique Collector (April 1980), pp. 77–79. Alo includes pp. 75–76.

Includes correspondence, photocopies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, photocopies of journal, dictionary and draft articles, photographs and notes.

Includes handwritten notes with detailed description of "Leroux no. 3153".

Original article from Connaissance des Arts no. 266 (April 1974), pp. 80–87.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (September/October 1946), pp. 418–423. Annotated '80'.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (May/June 1947), pp. 176–187. Annotated '91B'.

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 Communication no. 61 du Musée national d'Histoire des Sciences exactes et naturelles à Leiden, Hollande (n.d.), pp. 189–204.

Bound copy of an article published in Les Merveilles de la Science.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 23–37. Annotated '92'.

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, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 219–226. Annotated '81'.

Typescript with photographs.

Handwritten, with diagrams.

With an invitation to "See how the wheels go round", a Dorset County Museum event held on 23–25 June 2000.

With bibliography on telecommunications.

One typewritten letter. Also includes a seemingly unrelated handwritten and undated (incomplete?) letter to "Mr Genge [?]".

With synopsis and chapter titles.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (24 August 1949), pp. 368–373.

Original article from Connaissance des Arts no. 318 (August 1978), pp. 30–37.

Original article from Communication no. 62 du Musée national d'Histoire des Sciences exactes et naturelles à Leiden (n.d.), pp. 417–419. Annotated '82'.

A very fine and small "library" timepiece [with two bronze lions and eagle case].

Seven cards. Purchased in 1988 from L. M. C. Nierynck, the Netherlands.

Two typewritten letters only. The description and postcard of the clock refered to in the letter are not included in the file.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 286–295. Annotated '91C'.

Printout of a translation of an article published in the French journal Négation, about workers at the Lip watch factory in France, who began self-managing the firm. Also available online at https://libcom.org/article/lip–and–self–managed–counter–revolution–1973–negation.

Handwritten. Used in Dr Ward's lectures on "Early clocks and clock dials as shown in illuminated manuscripts", given at the Science Museum.

File marked RC13/2. Includes typewritten lists of watches and clocks for sale by various dealers based in York, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire, including Rarities International, Kingsway Galleries, Castle Galleries and Roy James and Co.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1990), pp. 52–53.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 64–65. Includes "Clocks from two centuries", a selection of clocks from the dealers' showrooms.

Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 11 (March 1977), pp. 25–30. Includes antique clock dealer advertisements.

A small mahogany longcase with engraved silver dial.

A rare mahogany longcase timepiece with silvered dial and regulator movement of six weeks duration.

A very fine example of a classic Edinburgh mahogany longcase clock.

A provincial mahogany longcase of the highest quality with brass arched dial and rocking ship.

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

Mahogany longcase.

A very small and elegantly proportioned mahogany longcase with movement of the highest quality by this noted maker.

A fine caddy-top longcase with decoration of chinoiserie on a green ground, all in an excellent state of preservation, and with arched brass dial.

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

A very fine and small mahogany longcase by this well-known partnership.

A very fine East Anglian longcase in oak and mahogany of best "London" quality

A green lacquer longcase with caddy top and arched brass dial of most unusual design and incorporating an automata half-hour strike.

A fine and small longcase clock with chinoiserie decoration and a coloured print on a green ground and with musical and quarter striking movement.

A rare and fine oak longcase clock by this important maker.

A very fine and rare oak longcase clock by this talented maker.

An extremely elegant mahogany longcase by these well-known makers.

A fine mahogany longcase in the manner of Mudge, Dutton and Holmes with arched, silvered dial by this well-known maker.

A panelled marquetry longcase of exceptional proportions and colour with 10" dial and movement of one month duration.

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 walnut longcase clock of very fine proportions and colour with a movement of the highest quality with a very good 12-inch dial.

A walnut longcase clock of eight days duration by this celebrated maker.

A small and fine mahogany longcase by this well-known maker.

A very good longcase with chinoiserie decoration on a green ground, the maker being a former mayor of Doncaster.

A very good lacquered longcase clock with finely preserved chinoiserie decoration on a green ground.

A good, provincial oak longcase clock with arched brass dial incorporating a very rare calendar feature.

A fine and very small mahogany longcase clock with round, silvered brass dial.

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

A fine quality mahogany longcase with a particularly elegant, painted dial.

An exceptionally fine Queen Anne walnut and marquetry longcase clock.

A very good, burr walnut longcase with arched dial showing the moon's age.

A very good, burr walnut longcase with arched dial showing the moon's age.

A very fine and small mahogany longcase with all the characteristics of this celebrated maker.

An exceptionally fine, seventeenth-century walnut longcase with panelled bird and flower marquetry, 11-inch dial and movement of month duration, all in outstandingly original condition.

A good Scottish mahogany longcase with painted, arched dial.

An exceedingly elegant mahogany longcase clock by this noted Scottish maker, with some very rare features.

A London mahogany longcase of the highest quality.

An exceptionally fine and small mahogany longcase with arched brass dial by this well-known maker.

A small and elegant mahogany longcase with brass dial and centre date band.

A small, classic Channel Islands longcase clock.

An exceptionally fine walnut longcase clock by this celebrated maker.

A fine and small panelled marquetry longcase clock with 11-inch dial by the Oxford member of this celebrated family.

A fine longcase decorated with chinoiserie on a green ground and with a particularly good, arched brass dial.

A finely proportioned and very small early nineteenth-century mahogany longcase with round, silvered dial.

A fine and elegant oak longcase clock having an 11-inch brass arched dial with exceedingly rare configuration, by this talented provincial maker.

A walnut and mulberry longcase of the highest quality and with a movement of exceptional horological interest.