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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.

7th edition, hardback

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 127–134. Annotated '83'.

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: abbeys and castles, slightly rainbowy sky, silken leaf corners, thin painted. Hemispheres: gold edged maps, late type, outside latitude numbers.

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.

Pleasance and Harper were goldsmiths, jewellers and diamond merchants based in Bristol, est. 1879. File also includes an annotated reprint from The Trade Journals relating to the expansion of the business, and correspondence from Philip Thornton with catalogues of his precision tools.

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.

38 b/w photographs, with film negatives.

15 b/w photographs. Guests include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harris, Dr Ward and others. File also includes a bound article on the Wuppertal Clock and Watch Museum by Allan Lloyd, from "The Antique Collector" (Oct 1966).

2 b/w photographs. From the Science Museum.

2 b/w photographs. "St Jerome with Clock" is based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving "St Jerome in His Study"; and "Sir Thomas More and His Descendants" on a copy of a lost 1527 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.

51 b/w photographs, mostly of groups, events and tours, some captioned. Also includes a poster for "300 Years of Pendulum Clocks", a special exhibition at the Science Museum (Dec 1956–Feb 1957); and a trade card of Joseph Stainton Watch Material Warehouse, Birmingham.

2 b/w photographs. Originally in an envelope labelled "Two photos from B. Bopp".

Also includes photocopies

This series comprises images of clock dials made by unknown and non-Birmingham makers, as well as clocks from museum and private collections.

This series comprises images of clock dials made by known Birmingham makers.

The dials have been categorised by Frances Tennant into the following dial types:
12 o'clock moon, Arched with moon, Automata, Birds in arch, Brass arched, Brass arched moon, Brass square, Gesso in arch, High oval in arch, Low oval in arch, Moon dial, Other arch, Other dial type, Oval dial, Picture in arch, Round dial, Square dial.

2 b/w photographs.

1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.

Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1983), pp. 34–35.