Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains one sketch.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 129–131. Annotated '80'.
Bound typescript, 11 chapters. Contents: 1) A little history; 2) Some lost treasures; 3) The Strasburg Clocks; 4) The Great Clock of Prague; 5) The Astronomical Clock of Lyons; 6) The Jacquemart Clock at Dijon; 7) The Zimmer Clock of Lierre; 8) The Clock Tower of Berne; 9) The Clock of Lund; 10) The Lubeck Clock; 11) Some minor marvels.
Photocopy of an article published in Wireless World.
James Reith was apprenticed in 1698 and became the vice director of a watch manufactory in Versailles, France. File includes extracts from sales catalogues, technical descriptions, biographical information, invoices, photographs, and related correspondence.
A fine and small regulator by this ingenious maker.
An English regulator of the very highest quality and with movement of one-month duration.
A good, early-nineteenth-century regulator with mercury pendulum and mahogany case with very fine patina in the manner of Barrauds.
Original article from Endeavour (January 1954), pp. 5–16.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1973), pp. 95–97.
Original guest editorial article about clocks and watches from Antique Collecting, vol. 26 no. 8 (February 1992), p. 1.
Original article in two parts from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie no. 7–8 (July 1945 and August 1945 ), pp. 311–313 and 457–460 respectively. Annotated '80'.
Includes an article from The Horological Journal by Joseph M. Brown, handwritten notes and three photographs.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 20 no. 7 (December 1985), pp. 25–26.
Original article from Antique Collector (October 1958), pp. 185–190.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1956), pp. 29–31.
This series contains promotional publications produced by watch companies as well as watch and jewellery trade fairs: Baselworls and Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH). These include printed material, CD-Roms, photographs and slides.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 40 (n.d.), pp. 952–956.
Bound copies of extracts from Horological Journal.
Original article from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (November 1851), pp. 354–357.
This series contains prints of Northcote's map of Oxfordshire and an auction catalogue.
Enlarged photographic copy, previously framed, showing the inside of the shop with a naval officer purchasing a chronometer, the "Tempus Fugit" motto and establishment date of 1749. J. W. Benson was a watch and chronometer maker.
Original article Country Life (1 December 1988), pp. 160–165.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1950), pp. 30–32.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1950), pp. 17–19.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1951), pp. 24–26.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1951), pp. 22–24.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 8 (January 1979), pp. 25–27.
Original article about address given to to the Royal Society of Arts on 14 February 1946, from Jeweller and Metalworker (1 March 1946), pp. 138–144.
Includes correspondence with Prescot Mechanism Company and other organisations and individuals; press cuttings; copies, reprints and extracts from horological journals, publications and catalogues; flyer and programme for at City of Liverpool College course in Aspects of Horology held in 1983; and photographs.
Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1994), pp. 24–27 and 21–23.
Original article about regulator clocks from the Clocks supplement of The Antique Collector (1987), pp. 21–24. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.
Original article from Science News no. 9 (Penguin Books, 1948), pp. 88–103.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1956), pp. 25–27.
Original article about platinum and its applications, from Business World (n.d.), pp. 25–30.
Includes typewritten letter, an extract from the Official Guide Book about the "Astronomical Clock at Prague Town Hall", and a magazine cutting with the photograph of the clock.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 127–134. Annotated '83'.
Moon faces: very pursed lips, arched eyebrows. Moon scenes: auxiliary ship at sea with tower at night; windmill with three sails, mill wheel against building.
Iron moon dial.
Moon faces: nasty pop-eyed moon face. Moon scenes: ship at sea; ruins on an island.
Iron moon dial. Moon scenes: viaduct; castle.
Moon faces: quite round-eyed, a bit pensive. Moon scenes: early steam and sail board, side paddle wheels; castle by water's edge.
Mon faces: moon roller; moon has ship steam and sail; very odd moon mechanism.
Main dial: Saint John as a child; harpist and snake charmer, silver leaf, corroded.
Main dial: four continents, seated. Hemispheres: maps. Iron moon.
Main dial: four continents, seated on rocks; iron moon. Hemispheres: late style maps.
Main dial: four continents, seated Indian or [black man]. Hemispheres: late maps.
Main dial: scenic corners, cottages by riverside, all with trees, maps, large main dial, signature scroll type. Moon dial scenes: house, double tree left.
Main dial: scenic corners, cottages by riverside, all with trees, maps, large main dial, signature scroll type.
Main dial: American Indian has short beard, Africa wears chemise. Hemispheres: humps have continuing scenes from corners.
Main dial: Four Apostles, named.
Main dial: abbeys and castles, slightly rainbowy sky, silken leaf corners, thin painted. Hemispheres: gold edged maps, late type, outside latitude numbers.
Main dial: four-seasons girls, silver leaf corners, well painted; house in field, gold edges in humps; moon with steamboat, originally musical.
Main dial: large dial, luminous corners, castles, bridges etc.
Main dial: four continents corners; bird centre, quite colourful. Hemispheres: maps, outsize numbers.
Main dial: eight-day large moon roller, ruins corners, badly scrubbed, thick varnish on art work. Hemispheres: gilt edged.
Held at Hôtel des Bergues on Sunday 14th November 1993. By Antiquorum Auctioneers.
41 postcards, mostly blank, some with greetings addressed to Rita Shenton and E. J. Tyler. Also includes one colour slide of Overdrawn at the Bank, a painting by Charles Spencelayh.
15 blank postcards showing watches and clocks from the collection, as well as the museum and the town. Includes a set of six transparency slides .
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1960), pp. 25–27.
Original article from Apollo (May 1968), pp. 363–379.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1955), pp. 28–30.
Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1984), pp. 68–71.
Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1935), pp. 152–154.
Complete series of 20 cards, with some duplicates.
Includes typewritten letters, two printed photographs, and a newspaper cutting from Beschaulich Daheim (1933) with an article "Die Kunstuhe an Rathaous zu Plauen".
Original article about a pistol in possession of Sir David Lionel Golsmid-Stern-Salomons, a watch and clock collector, from The Connoisseur, vol. 125 no. 515 (March 1950), pp. 51–52. Pages also include short articles about other, non–horological collectibles.
Original article from The Connoisseur (January 1920), pp. 93–100.
Mainly from N.P. Mander Ltd, pipe organ builders. In an envelope addressed to Rita from N. P. Mander.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings.
Original article about working clocks inserted into oil paintings from Antique Collecting (December 1995/January 1996), p. 30.
Photocopy articles from Pearson's Weekly (1907).
Also includes photopcopies hand-annotated with prices.