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STR/02/012/014 · Item · 1990–1992
Part of STRIKE ONE

A very fine and exceedingly rare miniature longcase clock in a case decorated with chinoiserie on a simulated tortoiseshell ground. [Also included is "The Longcase Clock", an article by Tim Robinson from Antique Collectors' Club which discusses Manley, and Milo Mighell's correspondence with John Renton of the Norfolk Museums Service.]

BUN/01/005 · File · compiled in the 20th century
Part of BUNT, ERIC AND EILEEN

This is a copy of a two-volume list compiled by Francis Buckley and G. B. Buckley, held at the Guildhall Library (ref. CLC/239/MS03338/001-002). Newspapers include The Post Man, The Daily Courant, The Daily Post and General Advertiser, The Daily Journal and London Gazette. The file includes a list of references to lost pieces by Gray and Vulliamy, and references to other lost watches not included in the original volume, some in the hand of Eileen Bunt.

CAS/02/027 · File · 1957
Part of CASTLE, JOHN

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.

WAD/01/C/007/02 · Item · 1992 May/Jun
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original article about a collection of French furniture, ormolu-mounted porcelain and gilt-bronzes sold at in Monte Carlo on 20 June 1992, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 12 (May/June 1992), pp. 12–13.