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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.

Original article about the Ilbert Collection from Country Life (28 August 1958), pp. 404–405.

Original article from Old Furniture, vol. 19 (Decemeber 1928), pp. 231–235.

Original article from an unidentified publication, pp. 240–248.

Original article from Antique Collecting (February 1992), pp. 24–26.

Photocopy of an article from New Scientist (10 February 1996), p. 45. Also includes "The decimal time system" chart.

Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 27 no. 7 (December 1989), p. 26.

Special issue about watches and their sales, two copies.

Original article from The Meccano Magazine, vol. 44 no. 1 (December 1959), pp. 560–561.

Photocopy of an article from Antiques Bulletin issue 586 (28 January–3 February 1995), pp. 10–11.

Original article about tavern clocks, better known as Acts of Parliament clocks, from Art & Antiques Weekly (3 February 1973), pp. 28–30. Also includes issue cover.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1956), pp. 23–25.

Original article from the Collecting section of The Sunday Times Magazine (1 October 1989).

Original article about the history of French clocks from Discovering Antiques no. 28 (n.d.), pp. 664–667.

Original article from Art & Antiques (16 September 1982), pp. 19–22.

Original article about clocks at Zaanse Schans museum from Holland Herald, vol. 12 no. 2 (1977), pp. 33–35.

Gives fair dates for 2000.

Two copies of an original article about price rises of antique clocks from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), p. 88.

Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.

Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs and related correspondence.

Original article from Art & Antiques (16 October 1976), pp. 24–26.

Original article about carriage clocks from Art and Antiques (21 September and 1 October 1981), pp. 22–24.

Original article about Act-of-Parliament clocks, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1975), pp. 87–89.

Loose copy of an article published in two parts in Wireless World.

Original article about the decoration of early watches from Country Life (5 December 1991), pp. 86–87. Includes issue cover.

Original article from Country Life (26 January 1978), pp. 199–201.

Original article about the Habsburg auction of Breguet watches, from The Antique Collector (April 1991), pp. 26–31.

Original article about French clocks from Art & Antiques (20 October 1973), pp. 14–17.

Includes related correspondence.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 7 (December 1988), p. 50.

Includes correspondence with the Science Museum and other institutions and individuals; copies of the article on "Some Notes on the History of Machine Watchmaking" by Prof. D.S. Torrens (1947); extracts from sales catalogues; notes and correspondence relating to clockmaking tools, and photographs.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 66–69.

Contains annotated tracing.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (April 1955), pp. 63–68.

Original volume, 445 pages. Full title: Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (London). Includes chapters on: Premiums offered in 1799, Papers in agriculture, Papers in polite arts, Papers in Mechanicks, Paper in colonies and trade, Rewards bestowed, Presents received, Catalogue of models and machines, List of officers, List of members, and Index.

Handwritten, made by Eileen Bunt. The original book was donated to Guildhall Library on the death of its owner and is held there under ref. CLC/B/227/MS23726/001.

This series comprises notes and transcripts of fourteenth to eighteenth-century sources relating to clockmaking and watchmaking.

John Travers (1849–1937) was a marine chronometer escapement maker based in Ramsgate. File includes Travers' original correspondence; press cuttings relating to the Travers family; John Travers' obituary published in The Horological Journal (1938); notes and correspondence relating to his chronometer-fusee engine, and photographs.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1951), pp. 17–18. Mentions Adam's bird–cage clock.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1986), pp. 52–53.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1974), pp. 93–98.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1966), pp. 70–72.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1989), pp. 35–37.

Original article about James McCabe from Art & Antiques Weekly (3 March 1979), p. 25.

Original article from Antique Collector (April 1971), pp. 71–76.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 10 no. 6 (October 1975), pp. 16–19.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (December 1956), pp. 79–86.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (December 1956), pp. 51–58.

Original article from Antique Collecting (December 1995/January 1996), pp. 21.

This collection comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.

Copy of an article published in Mat. Med. Nordm. vol 23.

Includes a typewritten letter and article "Die Ulmer Rathausuhr: Ein handwelkliches Meisterstück deutscher Renaissencekunst von Albrecht Rieber", and a photograph. Also includes a letter from the mayor of Olomuc, Czechoslovakia, regarding a booklet on the Olomuc town hall clock (the booklet is not included).

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1987), pp. 40–43.

Reprint from La Montre Suisse vol. 44 no. 21 (1971).

Original article from Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. 33 (16 April 1885), pp. 182–189.

Original article about a watch and chatelaine from the Devonshire Collection, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1980), p. 98. Includes issue cover.

Handwritten. Also includes a typescript letter from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, regarding Dr Ward's request for a photograph (not included), and the Museum's postcard showing a Roman vertical disc dial c.250 AD.

Includes letters, order forms, rules for ordering and sale of photographs, and two photographs.

Handwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting on the re-opening of V&A's Jewellery gallery, and a catalogue of V&A jewellery lantern slides.

Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present

Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1914), pp. 157–160.

Original article from Antique Finder (April 1973), pp. 56–59. Also includes a review of Carriage Clocks, a book by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1980), pp. 47–50.

Original article from Antique Collecting (May 1976), pp. 10–14.

Original article from Practical Woodworking (November 1989), pp. 16–21.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 58–59.

Contains a list of all exhibits.

Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.

Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 29 (n.d.), pp. 688–692.

Original article from Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques (October 1990), pp. 226–237. Includes issue cover.

Includes correspondence, handwritten notes, photocopies of sales catalogue pages, photographs, a photocopy of Thomas Reid's letter to B.L. Vulliamy of 1822, and Charles Allix's article "A mid-18th century alarm by Gray and Vulliamy" (Antiquarian Horology, Spring 1994).

Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.

Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.

Printed and typescript, some handwritten.

This collection comprises records created and collected by Francis Wadsworth. It includes a large series of original articles by various authors on horological and related topics (cut out of publications, many of them were purchased from antiquarian book dealers), as well as sales and auction catalogues and advertisements for clocks, watches and clockmaking tools; instructions, manuals, and patents; reference publications; alphabetical files relating to clockmaking firms and factories; exhibition and museum brochures; correspondence; ephemera; and papers relating to Wadsworth’s work on the AHS Publication Committee. In addition to purely horological topics, it reflects Francis Wadsworth’s interest in scientific instruments, stately houses and antique furniture and porcelain.

This collection comprises Dr Ward's correspondence, reports, lecture notes as well as printed material and photographs. They mostly document various horological tours and exhibitions organised by him, and his cataloguing and consulting work.