Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketch.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes and tracings.
Contains handwritten report, annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains annotated sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes and tracings.
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.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings. Originally numbered "C10" (duplicate number).
41 pages. Includes various clocks (Hampton Court, Berkeley Castle, Houses of Parliament); George Honeybone; Salisbury Cathedral clock; various clocks of Britain, Prague, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France; curiosities; two well-known Danish clocks; bracket clocks; long case clocks; eighteenth-century clocks; Greenwich mean time; atomic clock; Honeybone clock; miscellaneous clocks; history of Big Ben, etc.
40 pages. Includes clocks of Scotland; smallest watches; "Negress clock"; astronomical clock of Versailles; Salisbury Cathedral clock; the oldest clock in Paris; clocks of Germany, Holland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Malta, Denmark, Spain and Venice; summer time; clocks of York; Big Ben; concave dial clock at Bristol; grandfather clocks; brochure about the Peace Tower carillon in Ottawa; seventeenth-century clockmakers; Captain Scott's watch; watches in the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers collection; Strasbourg Cathedral clock; clock collection of Mr Hutton-Stott; grandfather clocks; detailed description of the Broadgate "Godiva clock" in Coventry (with original drawings); floral clocks; Lund Cathedral clock, Sweden; Honeybone clocks, etc.
37 pages. Includes candle-lighting clock; "The story of the British watch and clock industry"; Mr Vine's matchstick clock; "Clocks", an article by Sheila Richardson about clocks of Nuremburg, Prague, Strasbourg and Lund; Kienzle watch museum brochure (in German); article on Stanley Humphrey's maintenance of government clocks; the Birdcage Clock; long case clocks; Winchester Empire Clock; John E. Ginson's article on the passing of time; Big Ben; Mr and Mrs Bromley's clock collection at Belper; American clocks; new battery-driven clocks; radiation risk of luminous dials; Crucifix Clock, etc.
37 pages. Includes short history of clocks; floral clocks; Player's Cigarettes cards featuring clocks and other timekeeping devices, with notes; types of devices used for the measurement of time (list with descriptions); "Look and Learn" feature on timekeeping; Breguet watches; Phoenix clock at Westbury; Gamle Ure brochure from the clock museum on Denmark; Chinese clockmaking industry; timing the Olympics [Winter Olympics, Innsbruck]; clock towers of France; "Early provincial clockmakers" by J.K. Bellchambers; The Science Museum Timekeepers booklet; Ferenc Magyar clock and watch collection in Budapest; clock designed for lunar explorers; The Wuppertal clock museum, etc.
Typescript. With Dr Ward as the Honorary Treasurer.
Typescript.
Handwritten, typescript and printed.
Handwritten.
Typescript.
Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.
Printed.
Handwritten. Used in Dr Ward's lectures on "Early clocks and clock dials as shown in illuminated manuscripts", given at the Science Museum.
Typescript. Two copies.
Printed. Cassette not included. Issued to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' charter.
18 b/w captioned photographs and 3 postcards. Includes regulator clocks, pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks, reconstructions of Hugyens' marine clocks, airpumps, apparatus for measuring centrifugal forces, and Christiaan Hugyens portrait. All photographs endorsed 'Copyright Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden'.
1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.
3 b/w photographs, captioned, taken by L.S. Northcote and Dr Mercer.
2 copies of b/w photographic postcard, in an envelope dated 14 Dec 1967.
13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.
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.
4 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope marked "Science Museum Property".
2 b/w photographs.
Original article from The Family Magazine, vol. 8 (1846–47), pp. 22–24, 59–62.
Original article from The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art (1852), pp. 246–252.
Original article from Knowledge (5 June 1885), pp. 480–481, 498–500, 522–523.
Original article/chapter 11 from The Pictorial Gallery of Arts (n.d.), pp. 381–384.
Original article from The Harmsworth Enyclopaedia: Everybody's Book of Reference, vol. IV (1907), pp. 3187–3191.
Photocopy articles from Pearson's Weekly (1907).
Original pages 53 and 403 from The Connoisseur, vol. 35 no. 137 (January 1913).
Original article about Smiths Clocks and Watches Ltd, from The Engineer (1 June 1956), pp. 606–607.
Original articles from Sunday Mercury (12 October 1958), p. 13.
Original article from The Meccano Magazine, vol. 44 no. 1 (December 1959), pp. 560–561.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1963), pp. 86–87. One of the fans features a depiction of a clock.
Original pages from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1974), pp. 141–142, including a short article on Huguenot clockmakers. Includes issue cover and advertisement page.
Original article about a Geneva sale, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 12 (May/June 1992), pp. 23–24.
Original article about Victorian and Edwardian pocket watches, from What's It Worth part 1 (1993), pp. 7–8.
Original article from Antique Collecting (April 1998), pp. 36–37.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (April 1958), pp. 53–60.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1986), pp. 52–53.
Original article from Antique Collector (September 1977), pp. 70–74.
Photocopy of an article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 68–69.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide Supplement (October 1988), pp. 36–37.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1981), pp. 75–78.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 70 (December 1924), pp. 230–236.
Original article from Antique Collector (August 1973), pp. 201–206.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (24 August 1949), pp. 368–373.
Original article about carriage clocks from Art and Antiques (21 September and 1 October 1981), pp. 22–24.
Original article about a small clock by Grimalde & Johnson from Antique Collector (April 1974), pp. 62–63.
Original article from the Journal of the Society of Arts (24 May 1878), pp. 608–620.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 15 no. 6 (November 1980), p. 33.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 3 (July/August 1982), p. 40–42.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 19 no. 3 (July/August 1984), pp. 32–33.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1988), pp. 53–55.
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 price lists from Antique Collecting (July 1979), p. 48. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages.
Original articles from Discovering Antiques no. 34 (1971), pp. 813–816, 793–796, 798–802 and 808–811.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 10 (n.d.), pp. 235–240.
Original article from Connaissance des Arts no. 318 (August 1978), pp. 30–37.
Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1984), pp. 68–71.
Original article from The Antique Collector (September 1976), pp. 10–14.
Original article from Antique Collecting (May 1976), pp. 10–14.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), p. 88.
Original article from The Connoisseur (November 1931), pp. 308–315.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1966), pp. 70–72.
Original articles from Endeavour vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 28–32 and 23–27.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1961), pp. 29–30.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 20 no. 12 (July 1966), pp. 50–53.
Original article about the Sotheby sale of a newly discovered Tompion clock and a James Condliff skeleton clock from The Times (28 June 2003).
Original article from Country Life Annual (1955), pp. 84–87.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 154 no. 621 (November 1963), pp. 147–153.
Original articles from Blanco y Negro no. 2432 (13 December 1958).
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1968), pp. 72–73.
Original article from an unidentified publication, pp. 240–248.
Original articles, the former about astronomical clocks, from The Connoisseur (November 1973), pp. 195–198 and 199–201.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1981), pp. 58–60.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1982), pp. 40–43.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1972), pp. 91–93.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1972), pp. 98–101.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1973), pp. 80–81.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1974), pp. 96–98.
Original article about Act-of-Parliament clocks, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1975), pp. 87–89.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1975), p. 63.