Moon faces: pensive, red cheeks. Moon scenes: ship at sea; goddess with horn of plenty and grapes, by urn in landscape (well painted, unusual single figure).
Main dial: four seasons (three ladies, one man) in corners; different artist than bearded lady ones; gold band outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on right, ecliptic below equator.
Moon faces: round-eyed, pink cheeks and noses. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with abbey tower.
Moon faces: round-eyed, pink cheeks and noses. Moon scenes: ship at sea, regular waves; large white Georgian house by river or lake with swans.
Main dial: silver leaf; green shells corners with gold grape leaves, diamonds in humps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: gold ovals with fruit and flowers. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron with name.
Moon faces: red cheeks, serious expression. Moon scenes: usual Georgian house and two swans; ship at sea.
Main dial: unusual day of week aperture, short, square-ended, no teeth.
Main dial: auriculas, short squared aperture with wheel dial, no teeth.
Main dial: transfer for numerals and signature.
Moon faces: serious. Moon scenes: ship at sea, no sails; white mansion, well painted.
Moon faces: very red-cheeked, pig-like bottom of nose. Moon scenes: ship 'wing and wing'; cottage with leaning tree and pointed roof.
Main dial: creamy, floral corners with W and H framing, muted colours; farm in breakarch with haystack.
Main dial: bitty corners, Romantic cottage above centre with figure.
Main dial: off-white roses corners with observatory; swans on lake.
Main dial: unusual red background to corners, with white flowers and gold leaves; breakarch scene with ruin, quite nice.
Main dial: four seasons, colourful. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: cream; bitty corners, well preserved; house in low oval.
Main dial: L-shaped corners, gold flowers, two roses dial centre. Heavy-style artwork.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with Adam and Eve automata in breakarch, engraved and silvered dial centre, with centre date on chapter ring, seconds on dial centre, Rococo spandrels. Crude painting of Adam and Eve, both arms to move and corkscrew serpent (brass) moves around the tree trunk; motto "O Man Except of No Thing that God Forbids" on breakarch.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, where original chapter ring had been removed and new painted centre, complete with numerals, put in. Impossible to say who made dial centre, but it is early, with decorated petal winding holes.
All painted moon with moon's age on outside of moon dial, which has mid-blue sky with stars.
One of the first clocks FT restored. Bracket, probably Wilson. Flat gesso corners, painting in breakarch.
Silvered edge to outward facing (12 o'clock-style) small moons with one black moon face, so called Penny Moon. Well painted, Manchester style landscapes; Bob Baxter, Southport.
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Complicated clock, belonged to Ernest L Edwards, given to Merseyside Museum. Slide 281 shows dirty varnish on moon, 283 fully cleaned. Very fine professionally done painting. Moon has tiny mouth, vigorously painted waterfall on one side with leaning pine trees, street scene on other side.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train originally, third train added later. Arched dial with moon, matted and engraved centre, round-ended date aperture, separate solid seconds circle, maps on hemispheres, head and foliage spandrels, name on separate silvered piece in breakarch. This clock has been heavily improved probably in Victorian times when third train and gong were added. Frances Tennant repaired mechanism and cleaned up moon dial, main dial unrestored.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched with moon, engraved and matted centre, ringed winding holes, square date aperture, applied silvered seconds ring on dial centre, maps on hemispheres, head with foliage spandrels.
Main dial: ruined abbeys corners, messy painting. Hemispheres: gold pavilions in humps.
Main dial: eight-day, cream background, anemone and gold flowers corners, morning glory and gold flowers dial centre.
Main dial: Crude paintings, dogs corners, man shooting in breakarch. Similar to dial shown on slide 459.
Deacon movement for dial shown in slides 234 and 235.
Slide 232 shows ceramic plates illustrating The Potter's Art, displayed next to the clock shown in slides 166, 167, 168, 169 and 231.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, arched dial with moon, arch a separate piece; engraved and silvered dial centre with daffodils, curved date aperture, seconds numerals. Only has Hanet Hannah engraved top and initials JHC (difficult to make out) on bottom. Urn and small head spandrels, maps on hemispheres.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, engraved and silvered centre with centre date on dial centre, engraving of fanciful dragon head (Scots style), petals around winding holes, Rococo spandrels. Hemispheres: maps.
Images of dials made by unknown makers.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, arched dial with moon, engraved and silvered centre, seconds on higher part of dial and date dial engraved on lower; moons age engraved on arch; Rococo spandrels. Hemispheres: maps.
Moon dial: moons age on all painted moon. Moon was German-style replacement: yellow moon faces, repainted by Frances Tennant, in hopefully Irish style with starry sky.
Main dial: ruins with orange leaning trees in corners; huntsman doffing cap in breakarch. Well painted.
Main dial: orange background to roses corners, shells and flowers.
Main dial: shells rather crude, some bronze powder paint.
Main dial: very bright shells corners; bright bird centre.
Moon scenes: sailing ship, house.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, arched with separate date circle in arch, matted centre, interim markings, inside markings on chapter ring, outside banded, minute circle, minute numbers medium size, diamonds between; separate seconds ring; curious wedge-shaped aperture for silvered engraved days of week.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Main dial: eighteenth-century brass dial bracket clock with automata in the breakarch. Brass rocking ship was engraved under the paint (owner Eric Gent, St Helens).
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial; engraved and silvered centre with fierce bird (Nantwich-style), square date aperture, small compass points seconds on dial; Indian head spandrels, dolphin spandrels in arch, which has applied painted boss of two-headed eagle. Chester Military Museum.
Main dial: eight-day breakarch, three-train, greyed off-white background, no décor.
Main dial: cottages and old towers corners, bottom ones have bridge. Thin paint.
Main dial: rabbits top, foxes bottom corners; crude colours. Hemispheres: man with stick humps.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with Adam and Eve in breakarch. Dial breakarch cut out similar to Gill dial: painting of Garden of Eden background somewhat similar but figures better done. Both arms to move as well as shaped serpent going around tree.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, engraved and silvered dial centre (same engraver as dial shown in slide 626); seconds with compass rose on dial centre, square date aperture, interim markings, minute band, large Arabic minute numerals; head and Chippendale foliage spandrels.
Main dial: all different abbeys corners; Loch Katrine breakarch. All very well painted.
Moon faces: pale faced. Moon scenes: sailing ship, building with tower.
Main dial: cream background; roses, tulips and gold flowers corners; pears, gold flowers and blue fruit centre.
Main dial: simple blue flowers with gold blue band corners; girl with basket of flowers in breakarch.
Main dial: houses with ruins corners. Thin paint.
Brass dial bracket clock with ship automata. Never had whole thing.
Main dial: cottage and house with tower corners; village girl with dog in breakarch.
Main dial: pseudo-Oriental oddity, painted on brass. Does not look like Birmingham work.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train square dial, matted and engraved centre, square-ended date aperture; circular aperture for solid seconds dial, with boat engraved in centre head and foliage spandrels. Hood has painted wood insert (damaged).
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, matted centre with lightly ringed winding holes and heavily ringed date hole, applied silvered seconds ring on dial centre; head and foliage spandrels; hemispheres bare, but with hole as if applied ornament was missing. Moon has silvered edge with age on it, painted moon has double chins; two landscapes.
The only example of signed brass dial bracket clock painted decoration: Artist Grimaldi, well-known London painter, signature untouched, seen here.
Main dial: crude colours and painting of cottages and abbeys corners; cottage in arch.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial, silvered and engraved centre, distinctive style engraving, large round-ended date aperture, interim markings on chapter ring; head and foliage spandrels; painted insert in breakarch: Juno with lightning.
Main dial: cottages and abbeys corners; lakeside scene in breakarch. Thin, hasty painting.
Main dial: pink background to white flower, orange and gold rest of corner. Unusual.
Silvered edge moon dial with tidal numbers. Rather crude simplistic painting with man fishing on one landscape, man shooting on other.
Main dial: black leopard, elephant and bear in corners; man shooting lion centre; lion with rolling eyes biting camel in breakarch. Well painted.
Main dial: goats in corners; maps in hemispheres.
Main dial: arched automata; abbeys in corners; fort with flag on left, grotto on right in breakarch; well painted background to ship.
Main dial: cream background; anemone, morning glory and gold flowers corners; grapes, pears and blue flowers centre.
Large main dial: eight-day arched; cottages corners; large ruined castle breakarch; gold band. Pub clock.
Main dial: eight-day two-train square dial with 12 o'clock moon, painted centre, shaped date aperture, age of moon painted on moon dial edge (12 o'clock moons are rare with painted centres).
Iron moon dial. Moon scenes: landscapes, one with lake.
Main dial: sllver leaf underlay for houses corners; maps in hemispheres.
Main dial: man with gun hunting in breakarch, very crude.
Main dial: large gesso oval corners; large Arabic, slender Romans, moon with starry sky.
Main dial: castle in breakarch, cottages corners, borders date and seconds on dial, name very small across centre.
Main dial: cottage centre, floral and geometric corners.
Main dial: silly sheep corners, mumpish shepherdess in breakarch. Centre cut out, bad flaking, poor quality.
Nativity scene breakarch, copy of painting?
Main dial: Chippendale spandrels.
Main dial: early dial. This does not look like the famous Daniel Quare: name is crowded. Cherubs holding crown in spandrels.
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.
Sin títuloFile 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.
Sin títuloIncludes 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".