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A fine, eight-day marine chronometer by this celebrated maker, in a rosewood box of the highest quality.

An eight-day chronometer by this well-known maker in a brass-bound rosewood box and with fully numbered movement.

A fine, two-day marine chronometer by these well-known makers.

A fine eight-day chronometer by this celebrated maker in a brass-strung coromandel box.

A fine eight-day chronometer by this celebrated maker.

A fine and rare miniature ship's bulkhead timepiece by these well-known makers.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1984), pp. 36–39. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.

Original article from The Connoisseur Year Book (1956), pp. 104–110.

Printed.

Original article about a small clock by Grimalde & Johnson from Antique Collector (April 1974), pp. 62–63.

Two original articles from Antique Collector (August and September 1987), pp. 68–74 and 108–115 respectively.

Typescript and handwritten.

Original article from The Connoisseur (June 1970), pp. 77–85.

Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur, vol. 182 (February 1973 and March 1973), pp. 106–111 and 179–188 respectively.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 166 no. 670 (December 1967), pp. 213–221.

This collection contains research papers, publications and collectanea assembled by Chris McKay. It includes a large series of subject files relating to various clocks and clockmakers, including the Big Ben clock; guidebooks, catalogues and diaries; photographs, negatives and slides; art prints; and a significant collection of horological postcards.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 9 no. 6 (October 1974), pp. 22–27.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 21 no. 3 (July/August 1986), pp. 54–55.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1976), pp. 75–77.

Four drawings, including the "stackfreed" and "mainspring barrel and fusee".

Original article about Victorian and Edwardian pocket watches, from What's It Worth part 1 (1993), pp. 7–8.

Frank Mercer (1882–1970) was a chronometer maker; his father was the founder of Thomas Mercer Ltd, a firm of makers of chronometers and precision equipment based in St Albans, dating back to 1858. File includes obituaries of Frank Mercer, biographical articles about Thomas junior and senior, an article about the firm's centenary, etc.

Original article from Antique Collector (September 1977), pp. 70–74.

Inscribed "J.A. Sutcliffe, Blackpool".

Includes letters, copy catalogue pages, eight photographs and slides.

Original article from The Antique Collector (June 1973), pp. 165–169.

Includes typescript of an article on "The Clockmakers of Surrey, Middlesex and Hertfordshire"; handwritten and typescript lists of individual makers 1516–1830; scrap notes; handwritten notes taken from The Economic History of England by E. Lipson (1915); a catalogue leaflet for Rita Shenton's bookshop (specialist horological bookseller); two b/w photographs of a longcase clock by James Douglas Chertsey; small print of a view of Southwark Cathedral; and a tourist guide to Islington.

Includes handwritten lists of individuals' names from extracted from various directories 1797–1845; scrap notes, some relating to earlier sources; and related correspondence.

This collection comprises research papers compiled by Robert Miles in the course of his study of the history of the Synchronome company, which resulted in the publication of his book, Synchronome: Masters of Electrical Timekeeping (2011 and 2019). They include copies of primary and secondary sources from the nineteenth century onwards (including papers and articles by F. Hope-Jones), subject files, clock lists, photographs, slides and digital records.

192 pages. Signed by Milo Mighell on 21 July 2010.

Typescript. With Dr Ward as the Honorary Treasurer.

Four original pages from various issues of The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1956, November 1976, October 1986).

Originals and photocopies, relating to individual clocks and watches, clockmaking news, Robert Hooke and Captain James Cook.

Seven cuttings, mostly from unidentified newspapers.

Includes signed typescript of L. Northcote's review of Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850 by C.F.C. Beeson (1962); typescript of "Electronics in Timekeeping", a lecture given to the Electrical Horology Group by J.D. Weaver at the Science Museum (6 Dec 1975); typescript of an article on "The Watchmaker's Guild of Copenhagen" (n.d.), and handwritten notes and comments on the Flamsteed / Towneley correspondence and Towneley's pallets as revised by Tompion.

This collection comprises material relating to electrical horology created and collected by Arthur Mitchell. It contains subject and correspondence files concerning electric clock companies worldwide and their products, including the Synchronome Company.

Original articles from La Suisse Horlogère (August 1954), pp. 39–50.

Original article from Antique Collecting (April 1998), pp. 36–37.

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 catalogues, photocopies of press articles, hand-drawn plan of Le Forges à Montécheroux, photographs and negatives, and related correspondence.

This collection comprises material related to the research, writing, laying-out and publishing The Clockmakers of Somerset 1650-1900 and The Clockmakers of Bristol 1650-1900, as well as assorted research papers and ephemera, including but not limited to a collection of photos, copies of deeds, correspondence with owners of clocks including enclosures, and photocopies of archival documents.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 12 (February 1977), pp. 57–60.

Album containing the complete series of 25 cards. Purchased from The Good Olde Days shop in Brighton.

Includes typewritten letters, one photographic postcard and envelope. Also includes letter from Loughborough library, confirming that the Loughborough Carillion Tower is a replica of the Moulin tower.

Original article about a late seventeenth-century lantern clock by Richard Savage of Shrewsbury, from The Antique Collector (July 1986), pp. 48–49.

Original articles from The Connoisseur, vol. 5 (1903), no pagination.

Includes typewritten letters and a brochure titled Das Münchner Rathaus und sein Glockenspiel.

Two copies of an original article about musical boxes and clocks from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1972), pp. 80–81.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1969), pp. 60–63. Includes issue cover.

A fine overture box by these great makers, playing three airs.

Original article from Antique Collector (February 1980), pp. 62–64.

Original article about musical boxes from Art & Antiques Weekly (13–19 February 1981), pp. 20–23.

Images of dials made by N. Porter, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1810.

Includes catalogues, brochures, historical notes, photographs and related correspondence.

Printed, typescript and handwritten.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie, pp. 364–66. Annotated '83'.

Photocopy of an article from Pracitcal Engineering (13 January 1950), pp. 8–9.

Original page with news and book reviews from Antique Collector (August 1960). Includes a review of Clock and Watch Makers in Wales, a book by Iorweth C. Peate.

Includes articles about the clock sculpture in Gare St Lazare in Paris, the selling exhibition at Liberty, and heirloom Ducrow clock from the Weekend Telegraph (1994, 1995); long-case clocks and other "antiques of the future", and purchase of "the ultimate circuit timers" from The Daily Telegraph (1994, 1996).

This series contains prints from microfilms and photocopies of British newspaper extracts mentioning seventeenth- and eighteenth-century watches and watchmakers, compiled and annotated by Jeremy Evans. The newspapers include mainly the Daily Advertiser and other contemporary local papers such as The London Gazette, but twentienth-century catalogues and other publications are also present. Topics include mainly losses or thefts of watches, but also sales of goods, debts, bankruptcies, marriages, deaths, wills, appointments, absconsions, elopements, criminal charges, etc. The files also include some photographs of watches and clocks. Please note that some of the microfilm prints are not easily legible and in a few cases Jeremy Evans' attempts to decipher or identify the surnames were tentative, and alterative spellings of surnames are often provided.

Images of dials made by the Nicholas brothers, Birmingham factors and dial makers active in the 1790s–1820.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1978), p. 90–92.

Original article about fine English furniture collection from Antique Collector (June 1986), pp. 90–97.

This collection contains horological correspondence, research notes, photographs and printed material created and compiled by Lewis S. Northcote.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 70–73.

Original article from Country Life Annual (1956), pp. 180–185.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1975), pp. 69–71.

Contains handwritten note and a sketch scribbled on the back of an envelope dated 22 September 1936. No original number. Inserted between files 65 and 66.

Photocopy of the English translation of an article originally published in French in vol. 20 no. 21 of Les Comptes Rendus (May 1845). Translation published in Electrical Magazine vol. 2.

Handwritten. Includes: Deutsches Museum Munich, Bayerische Nationalmuseum Munich, Leiden Museum, Swiss museums and private collections (1957), Amsterdam 'Het Atoom' (1957), AHS German Tour 1959, AHS Austrian Tour 1961, and AHS Swiss-Italian Tour 1963.

This series contains notes, typescripts and publications compiled by Lewis S. Northcote, authored both by himself and others.

This series contains Roger Carrington's research papers and presentation scripts relating mainly to clockmaking and watchmaking in the north of England.

This series contains a notebook and a bound typescript of John W. Castle's planned publications.

Handwritten script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the Northern Section of the AHS in 1976. Also includes related correspondence.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the East Anglian Section of the AHS at Manor House Museum, Bury St Edmunds, on 20 March 1993. 46 pages.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the London Section of the AHS at the Science Museum, London, on 21 April 1994. 45 pages. Also includes slides and related correspondence.

Bound printed script of R.F. Carrington's presentation given to the Bedfordshire Branch of the BHI at Sherington Village Hall on 22 October 1992. 47 pages.

Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.

Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and Mirror of Science.

Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.

Printed copy of an article "communicated at Lancaster, 14th September 1933",

Original brochure, with description and photographs, of David Ramsay's star-shaped verge watch (now in the museum collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, who purchased it in 1958).

Original article about watch-key collecting, from Arts & Antiques (14 December 1974), pp. 25–27.

Oaktree Antiques, selling "town and country furniture, longcase clocks and works of art" is based in Marlet Harborough, Leicestershire.

Photocopy of an obituary of the British scientist, inventor and collector Edward Hall (1924–2001), published in The Times. File also includes photographs of clock movements and a comparison sheet between four Smiths Quartz Movements.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1955), pp. 29–30.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 136 no. 547 (September 1955), pp. 22–26.

Includes two typewritten letters and envelope.

Original article from Antiques (January 1970), pp. 90–95. Includes issue cover.

Original pages from an unidentified colour magazine, with an artistic photograph of wall clocks of various designs and their prices.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1967), pp. 61–63. Also includes A penny plain and twopence coloured, an article on miniature theatres by Frederick Stanley.

Original article from The Connoisseur (1922), pp. 215–222.