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A fine George III bracket clock in a brass-bound case veneered with richly figured mahogany with four corner pineapple finials and a single acorn finial to the centre mound of the bell-top case.

A seventeenth-century lantern clock, with the front fret signed.

Miniature lantern clock, possibly of Bristol origin, with a detailed description by Beresford Hutchinson.

A very rare and finely-decorated teardrop tavern clock.

A fine flat-front mahogany stick barometer by this noted maker.

A fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer by this important maker.

An exceedingly rare Scottish tavern clock by this maker of repute.

A rare and very finely preserved tavern clock by East Anglia's greatest maker.

A very fine Vienna Laterndluhr regulator with a timepiece movement of three months duration and gridiron compensating pendulum in a case of exceptionally elegant proportions.

A very rare sedan timepiece in its original mahogany travelling case, the clock case dated.

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

A very good English dial timepiece with 14-inch engraved and silvered brass dial and single salt-box case.

A fine, small and exceedingly rare rosewood mantel clock with gilded engine-turned dial and back wind.

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.

37 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.

Also includes a few pages of lantern clocks and general articles on longcase clocks and lacquer.

Makers' surnames include: Farwell, Faulkener, Fearnley, Fenn, Fennell, Fenton, Fenwick, Ferguson, Ferron, Fielder, Finch, Fish, Fladgate, Fleureau, Flook, Follit, Fontaine, Ford, Forde, Foster, Fowll, Fox, Freeman, French, Freshfield.

Makers' surnames include: Kefford, Kember, Kening, Kent, Kenton, King, Kipling, Kirk, Kirkpatrick, Knifton, Knottesford, Knowles.

Makers' surnames include: Pace, Padgett, Page, Pain, Palmer, Pare, Parkinson, Parr, Parre, Patrick De Parshore, Pearson, Peckover, Peers, Penford, Penton, Penyston, Pepys, Perigal, Phillips, Philp, Pinchbeck, Pingstone, Pitcher, Pitt, Pleydell, Plimmer, Plumbe, Porthouse, Post, Poulton, Power, Poy, Prevost, Price, Prime, Puller, Purden, Pyke, Pyne.

Makers' surnames include: Rant, Ray, Rayment, Raymond, Raynes, Raynsford, Recordon, Redstall, Reed, Renouf, Rice, Richardson, Rigby, Rimbault, Risbridger, Rivers, Riviere, Robb, Robin, Robinson, Rogers, Rooker, Rose, Rouch, Rudrupp.

Makers' surnames include: Ince and Mayhew, Ireland, Jackson, Jakeman, Jarratt, Jefferys, Jenkins, Jersey, Johnson, Jones, Jordan.

Makers' surnames include: King, Kipling, Kirk, Knight, Knottesford.

Makers' surnames include: Lagisse, Lamb & Webb, Lambert, Lampe, Land, Latham, Lee, Leroux, Lestourgeon, Lindsay, Liptrot, Loddington, Lowndes, Lumpkin.

Makers' surnames include: Naylor, Nethercott, Neve, Newman, Newton, Nicolason, Nicholson, Norcott, Norris, Norton, Ogden, Oosterwyck.

Makers' surnames include: Tawney, Taylor, Templer, Thornton, Thorp, Threlkeld, Thuret, Tomkins, Tomlinson, Toppin, Toulmin, Tregent, Trewinnard, Trubshaw, Turnball, Turner, Tyler.

This collection comprises correspondence and other papers created and collected by Martin Burgess during his clockmaking career, including notes, drawings and photographs relating to his Gurney, Schroder and other clocks. It also includes his recollections of his time at Gresham’s School, and film rolls and papers relating to Clockmaker, a documentary on Burgess, directed and produced by Richard Gayer in 1971.

File marked RC6. Includes typewritten and handwritten alphabetical lists of Essex clock and watchmakers, a list of turret and other public clocks in Essex arranged alphabetically by placename, and two issues of Transactions of Chigwell Local History Society (number 1, 1970 and number 2, 1974).

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 extracts from volumes 1–100 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 100–199 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 200–300 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 301–399 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 400–527 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–98 of the fire policy register MS 7253, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

This collection comprises mostly John W. Castle’s correspondence with local authorities of European towns and cities enquiring about famous local clocks, conducted in course of his research for a book about famous clocks of Europe. The files contain information obtained as a result, including photographs and publications. The book has never been published.

Includes letter, photographic service receipts, and one photograph.

Typewritten and handwritten. Includes notes on the Mayan calendar with related correspondence with the Legation of Guatemala; notes on the calculation of the birth of Jesus, notes on the months, the calendars of Kalasasaya, Egypt, the Muslim and Jewish calendars, and perpetual calendar; a draft copy of Chapter 1 of "Once Upon a Time", and The Sunday Express article on "When 11 days vanished from the calendar" (31 December 1961).

Typescript. Also includes four drawings.

Includes letters, a photographic postcard, and typewritten articles on "Compiegne (Oise): Hotel de Ville" and "La Bancloque de Compiegne".

Includes typewritten letters, photographs, copy drawing of La Place Royals de Dijon, Guide to Dijon booklet, Promenade a travers Dijon booklet, and a typescript of an article "The Jacquemart Clock of Dijon". Also includes handwritten letter from the AHS regarding inclusion of the article in the journal.

Includes one letter and envelope. NB. the clock had been destroyed in 1945 in an air raid on Wuerzburg and Heidingsfeld.

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

Includes letters, five photographs and photographic postcards, two typescript copies of John W. Castle's article "The astronomical clock of Lyon", a copy of an article from La Nature (1895) on "L'Horloge Astronomique de Lyon", copy drawings and typescript article (in French) on the astrolabe of Lyon. Also includes handwritten letter from the AHS regarding the publication of the article.

Also includes press cuttings from Newnes Practical Mechanica on orrery, planetarium and timing and delay mechanisms.

Four drawings, including the "stackfreed" and "mainspring barrel and fusee".

Includes typewritten letters, one photographic postcard and envelope. Also includes letter from Loughborough library, confirming that the Loughborough Carillion Tower is a replica of the Moulin tower.

Includes typewritten letters and a brochure titled Das Münchner Rathaus und sein Glockenspiel.

Includes two typewritten letters and envelope.

Includes typewritten letters, extracts from journal articles, and nine photographs and drawings. Also includes letter from Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy.

Includes typewritten letter, a newspaper cutting with an article on the restoration of the tower, its English translations (handwritten and typed), and a photograph.

This collection comprises research papers compiled by Robert Miles in the course of his study of the history of the Synchronome company, which resulted in the publication of his book, Synchronome: Masters of Electrical Timekeeping (2011 and 2019). They include copies of primary and secondary sources from the nineteenth century onwards (including papers and articles by F. Hope-Jones), subject files, clock lists, photographs, slides and digital records.

Includes handwritten list of Isle of Wight clockmakers 1875–79; scrap notes referring to clockmakers from earlier dates; typescript list of local street and trade directories; 1987 Strike One antique clocks and barometers catalogue brochure (featuring a chronometer by IoW maker Simpson Benzie Cowes); and E.J. Tyler's correspondence with the IoW County Council archivist regarding "Shorto" verge watch owned by William Chiddy.

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.

Makers' surnames include: Appley, Archambo, Archer, Arding, Aris, Ayris, Arland, Arlandy, Armand, Armstrong, Arnley, Arnold, Arson, Arundal, Arundell, Ashbee, Ashburne, Ashley, Ashman, Ashmore, Aslatt, Asselin, Astley, Aston, Atfield / Adfield, Atherley, Atkins, Atkinsin, Atwood, Aubert, Aubury, Austall, Aunale, Austin, Aveline, Avenell, Averton, Avery, Avril, Ayres, Ayrs, Ayscough, Azier.

Makers' surnames include: Beake, Beale, Beard, Beasley, Beate, Beaucamp, Beauchamp, Beauvais, Beavis, Bebley, Beccles, Bechoe, Beck, Beckett, Beckford, Beckman, Bedford, Beding, Beecham, Been, Beet, Beets, Behoe, Beighton, Belew, Belfield, Bell, Bellamy, Bellard, Bellette, Belling, Bellis, Bellwood, Bemish, Benban, Benbrick, Bence, Bendall, Benge, Benn, Bennet, Bennett, Benning, Benson, Bentley, Benton, Benyon, Berge, Bergeau, Berkeley, Bernard, Bernarde, Berridge, Berrington, Berry, Bertram, Beson, Best, Beste, Bethell, Betteridge, Betterton, Betts, Beverly, Bewley, Beyman.