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TEN/B/01/00058 · Unidad documental simple · 1978 Nov
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

TEN/B/01/00030 · Unidad documental simple · n. d.
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

TEN/B/01/00279 · Unidad documental simple · 1981 May
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

"The Potter's Art" plates
TEN/B/01/00232 · Unidad documental simple · 1980 Nov
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

Slide 232 shows ceramic plates illustrating The Potter's Art, displayed next to the clock shown in slides 166, 167, 168, 169 and 231.

TEN/B/01/00398 · Unidad documental simple · 1982 May
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

TEN/B/01/00580 · Unidad documental simple · 1984 Feb
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

TEN/B/01/01318 · Unidad documental simple · 1990 Jul
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

TEN/B/01/01242 · Unidad documental simple · 1989 Sep
Parte de TENNANT, FRANCES

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.

BURGESS, MARTIN (not yet catalogued)
BUR · Colección · mostly 20th century

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 título
CAR/01/002 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1972–2005
Parte de CARRINGTON, ROGER

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).

CASTLE, JOHN
CAS · Colección · 1949–1961

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 título
CAS/02/009 · Unidad documental compuesta · 1956–1961
Parte de CASTLE, JOHN

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).