Main dial: corners green background with carnations, tulip centre.
Main dial: gold flared Arabics on dark blue chapter ring; bluebell inn in breakarch, mountain in background; man with four seasons in corners, long clay pipe. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, shells in corners on gold and white. Hemispheres: very little left, outside numbers latitude. False plate: altered.
Moon faces: pale. Moon scenes: ship; cottage, tree ruin in distance.
Main dial: gold anchors in blue ovals corners, low key colours.
Main dial: pale blue/grey, orangey pink roses and carnations in opposite corners, flared tulips centre, gilded gesso framing.
Main dial: wider minute band, green background, blue anemone corners with gold ends, fat rosebuds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: rabbits, upside-down tulips and flower centre, very impressive dial. False plate: cast iron, named.
Main dial: modified fan corners, bright shells centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: carnations, lilies, gesso framed, two long necked birds with foliage, black sprigs over lower dial feet. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: red cheeks and full mouths. Moon scenes: large ship at sea; white country house.
Main dial: pink-faced four-seasons ladies, stiff foliage, scalloped gold band outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: odd maps, outside latitude numbers. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: small morning glory and roses corners. Hemispheres: whole-world map.
Main dial: small morning glory and roses corners. Hemispheres: whole-world map.
Moon faces: round-eyed, tiny mouth, pink cheeks, red nose. Moon scenes: large ship at sea; lake with cottage, well painted. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, anemone and rose corners, gesso-framed two birds in centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-continents ladies with pink faces, gold framed; outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, no decoration.
Main dial: four-seasons pink-faced ladies corners, gold framed, gold circle. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator.
Moon faces: sleepy-eyed, pleasant faces, quite pink all over. Moon scenes: ship at sea, side view; landscape with house and old tower.
Main dial: grey-white, small oval with branches framing fat bird in centre.
Main dial: blue-grey; four-seasons ladies, small heavy thighs, gesso framed, gold band inside chapter ring. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; four-seasons ladies, small heavy thighs, gesso framed, gold band inside chapter ring. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: pleasant expression, round-eyed, red noses. Moon scenes: blue-roofed, three-storey house; ship at sea.
Main dial: well-painted four seasons, gold line framing. Hemispheres: USA maps, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, gold leaf roses with black outline to corners; death of Nelson in breakarch, gold square and circle. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: serious expression, red noses. Moon scenes: girl with hay fork; ship at sea.
Main dial: creamy, gold band, gold shells, leaf band in corners. False plate: cast iron, faint "Owen".
Main dial: nativity scene breakarch; Bible, cross, chalice, Holy Spirit in corners, some gold.
Main dial: Owen moon roller; moon image missing; urns in corners in ovals blue with white and pink. Hemispheres: maps.
This collection comprises results of decades of Jeremy Evans’ horological research, including notebooks, assorted files on specific clockmakers, and a database of horological information extracted from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers, most notably a complete record of Daily Advertiser from the beginning of the eighteenth century to c.1753.
Sem títuloMakers' surnames include: Bocket, Bodenham, Bodker, Bodkers, Bodle, Bog, Boisson, Bold, Bollinger, Bolus, Bondolph, Bonet, Bonner, Bonneval, Booth, Borford, Bosley, Bostock, Bosvile, Bosworth, Boucher, Boullenger, Bolt, Boult, Boulton, Bouquet, Bourdon, Bourdeaux, Bournwash, Bousse, Bouvier, Boverick, Bowen, Bower, Bowes, Bowles, Bowley, Bowly, Boutell, Bowtell, Boyce, Boyd, Boyer.
Makers' surnames include: Clapot, Claypot, Clark, Clarke, Clarkson, Claverton, Clay, Clayton, Clegg, Cleland, Clement, Clementti, Clements, Clemison, Cleverly, Clifton, Clinton, Clive, Cloither, Clough, Clowes, Clyatt.
Makers' surnames include: Coates, Cobb, Cobham, Cochereau, Cock, Cockbill, Cockett, Cockey, Coggs, Coignand, Coke, Colard, Cole, Coleman, Colin, Collet, Colley, Colliber, Collier, Collyer, Collingridge, Collins, Collison, Collomby, Colomby, Columbell, Colston, Comans, Combes, Combs, Comens, Company, Compigne, Compton, Cone, Conor, Constable, Constantin, Constantine, Conyers, Cook, Cooke, Cooks, Coole, Cooley, Cooper, Cooper & Hedge, Coote, Cope, Copeland, Copp, Corbet, Corder, Cordwell, Corner, Cornill, Cornu, Coste, Coster, Cotsworth, Cotton, Cottenbelt, Couch, Coulon, Coulon & Bry, Coupar, Courstau, Court, Courtauld, Courtial, Cover, Cowan, Cowburne (Coburn?), Cowell, Cowes, Cowper, Cox, Coxeter.
Makers' surnames include: E.D., Dakers (Dacres?), Dale, Dalgliesh, Dalton, Daniel, Daniell, Daniels, Dann, Darling, Davenport, Davidson, Davies, Davis, Dawson, Dawes, Day, Dean, Deane, Dear, Deard, Deards, Dearmer, Debaufre, Debaufres, Neville & Debaufre, De Charmes, Decharmes, De Choudens, Decosta, Dee, Definod, Defontaine, Desfountaynes, Defoxton, Dehecq, De la Balle, Delaballe, Delafons, Delahoyde, Delander, Delapont, Delassall, Dell, Dellamy, Dellcourt, Delorme, Delve, Demarsay, Denelope, Denn, Dennis, Dent, Dentan, Denton, Derham, Dermer, Deroches, Desagulier, Desalt, Descombes, Deseser, Dessesor, Desmarias, Desrings, De St. Leu, Deval, Devemmel, Devis, de Vreese, Dewe, Dewilde, Dexter, Deckster.
Makers' surnames include: Grace, Gradell, Graham, Grainger, Grange, Grant, Grantham, Grape, Graupner, Graves, Gray, Grey, Gray & Vulliamy, Graves, Greaves, Green, Greenhill, Greenwood, Gregg, Gregory, Gregson, Grenard, Grendon, Greppel, Gribelin, Grice, Griffin, Grifin, Griffith, Grig, Grigby, Grignion, Grillet, Grimes, Grimstead, Grindon, Grinkin, Grinnard, Grouse, Grovant, Grove, Groves, Guarffi, Gudgeon, Guer, Gugemous, Guiguer, Guildon, Guion, Gun, Gurney, Gutts, Guy, Gwilt, Gwinn, Gymer, Gyron.
Makers' surnames include: Harbert, Herbert, Harbin, Hardin, Harding, Harden, Ardin [sic], Hardwick, Hare, Hart, Hargreaves [?], Harley, Harlin, Harman, Harlin, Harmer, Harpur, Harper, Harpur, Harrington, Harris, Harrison, Harrol, Harrold, Hart, Hartley, Hartly, Harvey, Haselwood, Haslewood, Haslop, Hassenius, Hathaway, Hatton, Hauton, Haughton, Hauksbee, Hawkins, Hawthorn, Hawthing, Haydon, Hayes, Hays, Hayler, Hayly, Haynes, Hayton, Hayward, Hazard, Hazlewood.
Makers' surnames include: Moilliet, Molliere, Molloy, Molly, Molyneux, Monckton, Moncrief, Monkhouse, Monroe, Moor, Moore, Moran, Morant, Mordecai, Morecock, Morel, Morell, Morey, Morgan, Morin, Morland, Morley, Morris, Morrison, Morse, Morton, Moser, Moses, Moskeal, Moss, Moze, Motley, Mott, Mould, Mountford, Mousard, Mountfort, Mowden, Mowry, Mowtlow, Moyle, Muckleston, Mucklestone, Muddle, Mudel, Mudge, Mudge & Dutton, Muir, Mueller, Mundy, Munday, Munelly, Munroe [Monroe], Munshall, Muret, Murgatroyd, Murray, Mushin, Murphey, Murrel.
Makers' surnames include: Phelipper, Philipon, Phelippon, Phelps, Phillips, Phillipson, Phippard, Phipps, Pipp, Picket, Pearce, Pierce, Peirce, Pierssene, Pigney, Pingo, Pink, Pinkston, Pinney, Pynhee [?], Pinnock, Pires, Piron, Pistor, Pitcher, Pitman, Pits, Pittney, Place, Plank, Planner, Platt, Plat, Player, Plaire, Pleydell, Pluet, Plumbe, Plumbtree, Plumley, Plummer, Pluvier, Podneau, Pohlman, Poisson, Polimer, Pollack, Poloux, Polton, Pomeroy, Pomroy, Pomfret, Poncet, Pons, Pool, Poole, Pope, Poplitt, Porter, Portescue, Posfond, Ponsford [?], Porter, Post, Pothenot, Pottecary, Potter, Pott, Potts, Pots, Poulinge, Poulton, Powell, Powel, Poy, Proy, Poynes.
Makers' surnames include: Ribright, Riccord, Rice, Rich, Richard, Richards, Richardson, Richson, Riddlesdon, Rigaud, Riley, Rimbault, Ring, Riplin, Risben, Risdon, Rival, Rivers, Rix, Robarts, Roberdeau, Roberts, Robertson, Robins, Robinson, Robotham, Roden, Rodet, Rogers, Rodger, Rogerson, Rollaway, Romilly, Romley, Rommieu, Rooker / Wrooker, Rooksby, Roper, Rose, Roseamond, Ross, Roth, Rothbottom, Rothram, Roubell, Rouguet, Roughley, Roumieu, Rousseau, Russeau, Rausseau, Rout, Rowe, Rowley, Rowning, Rowte, Roy, Roycroft, Rudd, Rudge, Rudhal, Rule, Rumsey, Russel, Russell, Ruth, Rycroft, Ryland, Rylands.
Makers' surnames include: S[…], Sadleir, Sadler, Saft, Sainsbury, Sale, Salisbury, Salmon, Sambrook, Sampson, Samson, Sanders, Sanderson, Saunderson, Saunders, Satchell, Savage, Savell, Savery, Savidge, Saville, Savile, Savil, Sawyer, Sayer, Scafe, Scales, Scatliff, Scarfe, Schaeffer, Scheiner, Scheks, Schegs, Schmizt, Scholefield, Schofield, Scholes, Schultz, Science, Scott, Scrivener, Seabrook, Seagrave, Seale, Seawell, Sebire, Seddon, Sedgwick, Seeley, Seguier, Sellers, Seller, Sellon, Sellwood, Senesse, Senex, Serjeant, Sergent, Sarjant, Sergeant, Sargent, Serner, Serre, Servas, Servaniere, Sewell, Sewel, Seydell, Seymore, Seamore, Seymour, Seyton.
Makers' surnames include: Valance, Vale, Valentine, Vallant, Valle, Vallet, Valette, Vallois, Vallon, Valve, Van Ceule, Vandemire, Vandenhurk, Vandergucht, Van Leeuwen, Van Sas, Van Somer, Van Spicht, Van Stryp, Varney, Vaucanson, Vaugnion, Vauguion, Vaulove, Volove, Vautrollier, Vautyer, Veere, Venables, Vermeulen, Vernon, Vertue, Vetter, Viel, Vial, Viet, Vigne, Villepierre, Villers, Viner, Virtue, Vitall, Vitu, Vokes, Voter alias Furley, Vowell, Voyce, Vrijthoff, Vulliamy.
Gives name, trade, address, short summary of news where applicable, and date of publication. There is also a subject index section.
Makers' surnames include: Earnshaw, East, Eastwick, Eayre, Ebsworth, Eccless, Eck, Edwards, Elliott, Ellicott, Elliott, Elphinstone, Emery, Etherington, Eva, Evans, Ewer.
Makers' surnames include: Hackett, Halifax, Hall, Hally, Hampson, Hanson, Harbart, Harbert, Herbert, Hardinge, Harmer, Harper, Harris, Harrison, Harvey, Harvie, Hasius, Hatfield, Hawkins, Hayler, Hayley, Hebert, Henderson, Herbert, Hewitt, Hicks, Higgs, Hill, Hindley, Hindmore, Hocker, Hodges, Holland, Holloway, Holmes, Hopkins, Houlgrave, Howard, Howse, Hubbard, Hubert, Hughes, Hulbert, Hunt, Hunter, Huntsman, Hurt, Hutchin, Hutchinson, Hynam.
Makers' surnames include: Abchurch, Addis, Aldworth, Allam, Allin, Antram, Appley, Archambo, Arnold, Aspinall, Asselin, Audouin, Austen.
Makers' surnames include: Eagle, Earnshaw, East, Ebsworth, Edlyne, Ellicott, Elliott, Etherington, Evans.
Makers' surnames include: Farmer, Farr, Faulkner, Faver, Fennell, Ferry, Field, Fitter, Fladgate, Flashman, Fleetwood, Fontaine / Torin, Fort, Foster, Frodsham, Froome.
Makers' surnames include: Macham, Maddock, Marchant, McCabe, McKensy, Man, Mann, Marchant, Margetts, Markham, Markwick, Marriott, Marshall, Martyn, Martin, Martineau, Mason, Massey, Massy, May, Mayhew, Maynard, Mayowe, Menis, Meriton, Michel, Miller, Mitchell, Mitchelson, Mondehare, Moran, Morrison, Mowtlow, Mudge, Murgatroyd, Murray.
Makers' surnames include: Wady, Wagstaffe, Wainwright, Waldron, Walker, Walter, Ward, Warre, Warren, Watson, Watts, Webb, Weeks, Wells, Weston, Wheatley, Whichcote, White, Wightman, Wightwick, Willcox, Williams, Williamson, Willoughby, Wilmshurst, Wilson, Winrowe, Wise, Witherston, Wolfall, Wright, Wyche.
Makers' surnames include: Younge, Young. This file also includes some listings and articles about multiple clocks by various other makers (Miller, Hoddle, Hodgkin, Quare, Threlkeld, Pride, Jones, Hunsdon, Milles, Motley, DeCharmes, Garon, DuChesne, Antram, Markham, Cox, Higgs, Evans, Rimbault, Rivers & Son, and unknown makers).
This series contains files of correspondence and cutouts from catalogues, newspapers, journals and other publications, relating to the work of individual clockmakers and engravers.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts of catalogue listings.
Includes photocopies of early publications, newspaper articles and photographs.
Includes Joseph Knibb's biography, photocopies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts and printouts of catalogue listings.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, photocopies of journal articles, newspaper articles, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Makers' surnames include: Cattell, Chambers, Constantin, Constantine, Cooley, Cotsworth, Creed, Crouch, Cuff. The file contains correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
The subject files contain correspondence, publications, notes and photographs
Includes handwritten notes with detailed description of "Leroux no. 3153".
Includes catalogues, brochures, historical notes, photographs and related correspondence.
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.
This collection comprises Roger Carrington’s research papers relating to clockmaking and watchmaking in the north of England, and the role of insurance records in researching horological history.
Sem títuloFile marked RC13/2. Includes typewritten lists of watches and clocks for sale by various dealers based in York, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire, including Rarities International, Kingsway Galleries, Castle Galleries and Roy James and Co.
File marked RC13/3. Includes correspondence, descriptions, journal articles, photographs and negatives relating to Robin-type escapement (Robert Robin, 1742-1799 was a French clockmaker and inventor of the combined anchor-spring escapement). Also includes a copy of Horlogerie Ancienne (December 1978).
This series contains extracts from eighteenth and nineteenth-century fire insurance policies relating to clockmaking businesses. They were compiled from manuscripts held at the Guildhall Library (now part of The London Archives).
Handwritten extracts from volumes 202–299 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 500–555 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–7 of the fire policy register MS 7252, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–36 of the fire policy register MS 7255, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
This series contains alphabetically arranged subject files of correspondence, photographs, drawings, press cuttings and publications relating mainly to remarkable European clocks.
Includes letters, two photographs and a brochure titled Petite Historie d'Aigueperse.
Typewritten and published. Includes "It's about time" (talk with slide list), "An 18th century whimsy", "Some old clocks of West Country", "The Tower of Babel" (Antiquarian Horology December 1953), related correspondence, and an article "How the Chinese invented the mechanical clock" by Joseph Needham (The New Scientist December 1958).
Includes letters, a typewritten extract from La Cathedrale de Beauvais by V. Leblond, and a photographic postcard.
Includes letter and a photographic postcard.
Includes letters, a typewritten article, an illustration of the clock, and three photographs.
Includes nine photographs, two postcards, one printed drawing and two negatives of clocks from Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle; Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris; a sixteenth-century automatic clock in the shape of a ship from a private collection, and some of unidentified origin.
Includes three photographs of the Dondi Clock and article from Horological Journal (June 1961), and a brochure titles Globes and Spheres by H. von Bertele.
Includes typewritten letters in German, with English translations.
Includes letters, three photographs and photographic postcards, a typewritten article "Uber die Kunstuhr am Heilbronner Rathaus" and a press cutting from Amtsblatt, a local newspaper, about the restoration of the town hall.
Includes typewritten letters, five photographs, a tourist map of Alsace featuring a photograph of the clock, and typewritten articles on "Kunstuhr in Molsheim" and "Les horloges astronomiques et Monumentales: Molsheim".
Includes typewritten letters, two printed photographs, and a newspaper cutting from Beschaulich Daheim (1933) with an article "Die Kunstuhe an Rathaous zu Plauen".
Includes "The Accutron: the world's first electronic watch" (Horological Journal 1961), typescript of "The watch of to-morrow", list of the Horstmann collection of antique watches, and two photographs.
This collection comprises mostly wristwatch trade literature sent to and collected by Grahame Brooks over an approximately ten-year period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It includes press releases, product brochures, photographs, slides and CD-Roms, as well as some correspondence.
Sem títuloThis collection comprises mainly glass plate and film negatives of early English clocks, clock inscriptions and clockmakers’ portraits, collected by Percy G. Dawson. Many have been used in his books.
Sem títuloThis 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.
Sem títuloIncludes scrap notes on individual makers 1720–1885, and Hampshire Record Office guide to new public areas.
Includes handwritten lists of individuals' names from extracted from various directories 1797–1845; scrap notes, some relating to earlier sources; and related correspondence.
Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present
Contains snapshots and group portraits from Zurich and Bad Attisholz (nine b/w photographs, uncaptioned, loose), five postcards, and two tour programmes and timetables.
This collection comprises Eric Bunt’s handwritten notes on watch and clockmakers from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, compiled from original documents held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, and from printed volumes of Calendars of State Papers; handwritten transcripts of eighteenth-century newspaper articles about watch and clock thefts; and Eileen’s Bunt handwritten transcript of Benjamin Gray’s Daybook (original at the Guildhall Library, London).
Sem títuloThis series comprises notes and transcripts of fourteenth to eighteenth-century sources relating to clockmaking and watchmaking.
Names include David Ramsay, William Partridge, Edward East, Thomas Tompion and others.
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.
This series contains Lewis S. Northcote's correspondence on horological matters.
Includes typewritten obituary by L. Northcote, with list of work done by Hartley; handwritten notes and drafts for the obituary and the list; T.M. Hartley's outgoing letter book (1949–53); brochure and leaflet on John Smith & Sons (Midland Clock Works Derby Ltd); and related correspondence.
Mostly handwritten. Includes notes, sketches and calculations.
Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.
Includes annotated typescript of "The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-beat Escapement" by Derek Howse, an article published in Antiquarian Horology (December 1970); pages from the Horological Journal (October 1962) on Tompion pallets; and Northcote's correspondence with Howse, with notes and sketches.