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Original article from Jeweller and Metalworker (15 December 1950), pp. 1128–1130. Includes a page with portrait photos of James Oakes and E. T. Wright from the June 1950 issue.

Bound copy of an article about acquiring long-case clocks, from an unidentified publication.

Original articles from Science News no. 16 (Penguin Books, 1950), pp. 33–39 and 65–77.

Original article beased on a lecture read on 15 January 1857, from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1987), pp. 11–20.

Contains three b/w photographs, captioned, showing Princess Alice, Sir Harold Spences Jones, H. Alan Lloyd, Kenneth Pickthorn, Mr Elicott, Dr F. Sherwood Taylor, Lily Hudson and others.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 5 no. 7 (November 1970), pp. 14–17.

Original articles from Discovering Antiques no. 34 (1971), pp. 813–816, 793–796, 798–802 and 808–811.

Copy of an article on seventeenth-century night clocks, from an unidentified publication.

Images of dials made by Osborne & Wilson, Birmingham dial makers active in 1772–77.

4 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope marked "Science Museum Property".

Includes H. Otto's and Charles Allix's correspondence with Prof. D.S. Torens, May & Philpot catalogue of furniture auction sale 2 November 1955, photocopy photographs, sketches, and extracts from The Horological Journal.

Original article from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge, vol. 9 (1952?), pp. 291–224. General editors R.H. Poole and Peter Finch.

Two copies of an original article from The Antique Collector (January 1977), pp. 68–72.

Images of dials made by Owen & Price, Birmingham dial makers active around 1800.

Three prints, with a compliment slip from Thanet Printing Works.

Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 18–22.

Original article from the Clocks supplement of The Antique Collector magazine (1989), pp. 81–84. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.

Original article from Antique Collecting (September 1994), pp. 10–12. Includes advertisement page for Loomes' book and issue cover.

Original article from The Antique Collector (November 1978), pp. 75–77.

Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of Wynn's description of his Society of Arts Gold Isis Medal winning invention of a time-keeper and a compensating pendulum (1817). Also includes, as front, C. G. McKay's short letter about William Wynn, published in Antiquarian Horology (Autumn 1977) and a biographical note about Wynn from the ninth edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers.

Includes mostly typewritten letters, an excerpt from Chapter 3 of Castle's "Remarkable Clocks", a photograph of Oronce Fine's astronomical clock, and a photograph and copy drawing of De Vick's clock from the Palais de Justice. Also includes typewritten letter from the British Horological Institute .

Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 52–56. Annotated '91A'.

Original article about longcase clocks of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1990), pp. 44–46.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1978), p. 77–79.

Two original articles from Newnes Practical Mechanics (February and March 1955), pp. 211–212, 222 and 240–242 respectively. Includes February 1955 issue cover.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1955), pp. 28–30.

French perpetual calendar in gilt four glass case.

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

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

2 b/w photographs.

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.

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

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

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. "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.

2 b/w photographs. From the Science Museum.

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).

38 b/w photographs, with film negatives.

Photocopy articles from Pearson's Weekly (1907).

Original article about working clocks inserted into oil paintings from Antique Collecting (December 1995/January 1996), p. 30.

Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings.

Mainly from N.P. Mander Ltd, pipe organ builders. In an envelope addressed to Rita from N. P. Mander.

Original article from The Connoisseur (January 1920), pp. 93–100.

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.

Includes typewritten letters, two printed photographs, and a newspaper cutting from Beschaulich Daheim (1933) with an article "Die Kunstuhe an Rathaous zu Plauen".

Complete series of 20 cards, with some duplicates.

Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1935), pp. 152–154.

Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1984), pp. 68–71.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1955), pp. 28–30.

Original article from Apollo (May 1968), pp. 363–379.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1960), pp. 25–27.

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 .

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.

Held at Hôtel des Bergues on Sunday 14th November 1993. By Antiquorum Auctioneers.

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

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 about platinum and its applications, from Business World (n.d.), pp. 25–30.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1956), pp. 25–27.

Original article from Science News no. 9 (Penguin Books, 1948), pp. 88–103.

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 articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1994), pp. 24–27 and 21–23.

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 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.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 8 (January 1979), pp. 25–27.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1951), pp. 22–24.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1951), pp. 24–26.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1950), pp. 17–19.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1950), pp. 30–32.

Original article Country Life (1 December 1988), pp. 160–165.

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.

This series contains prints of Northcote's map of Oxfordshire and an auction catalogue.

Original article from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (November 1851), pp. 354–357.

Bound copies of extracts from Horological Journal.

Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 40 (n.d.), pp. 952–956.