Original article about the history and techniques of ormolu, the practice of gilding metal, from The Antique Collector (July 1980), pp. 60–63.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 6 (November 1981), p. 40.
Original articles from Endeavour vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 28–32 and 23–27.
Original article from Apollo, vol. 141 no. 400 (new series, June 1995), pp. 25–33.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1964), pp. 36–38.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 10 no. 11 (March 1976), pp. 5–7.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 12 no. 6 (October 1977), pp. 53–55.
Original article from "Inside the Trade" section of Antique Collector (December 1982), no pagination.
Original article about watch development in fashion, from the "Shopping" section of The Times (5 November 1988).
Original article from The Connoisseur (October 1932), p. 229–239.
Original article from The Connoisseur (January 1973), pp. 3–14.
Original article about the Habsburg auction of Breguet watches, from The Antique Collector (April 1991), pp. 26–31.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1968), pp. 72–73.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1955), pp. 31–33.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 76–78.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 15 no. 2 (June 1980), pp. 33–35.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1980), pp. 93–95.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1981), pp. 61–63.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1981), pp. 42–44.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1971), pp. 80–87.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1971), pp. 81–83.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1972), pp. 98–101.
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.
Original article from Science News no. 9 (Penguin Books, 1948), pp. 88–103.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 5 no. 4 (August 1970), pp. 4–9.
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 Connoisseur, vol. 190 no. 764 (October 1975), pp. 102–107.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (October 1954), pp. 1–30.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 64–65. Includes "Clocks from two centuries", a selection of clocks from the dealers' showrooms.
Photocopy of an article in two parts from The Chartered Mechanical Engineer (February and April 1978), pp. 80–81 and 85–90 respectively.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 22 no. 7 (December 1987), p. 53.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 189 no. 762 (August 1975), pp. 259–261. Also includes issue cover.
Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 27 no. 7 (December 1989), p. 26.
Original article from Antique Collecting (March 1995), pp. 4–8.
Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1903), pp. 169–174.
Original article from Country Life (26 January 1978), pp. 199–201.
Original article from The Connoisseur Year Book (1956), pp. 104–110.
Original article about French origins of the watchmaking craft, from an unidentified publication, pp. 263–267.
Original volume, 445 pages. Full title: Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (London). Includes chapters on: Premiums offered in 1799, Papers in agriculture, Papers in polite arts, Papers in Mechanicks, Paper in colonies and trade, Rewards bestowed, Presents received, Catalogue of models and machines, List of officers, List of members, and Index.
Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs and related correspondence.
Large folder of booklets, articles, patents, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.
Photocopies of articles published in Nicholson's Journal, i.e. the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts.
Bound copy of an article published in Les Merveilles de la Science.
Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.
Photocopy of two news pages, including articles on "Honors for the Trade", "Casket for the American Ambassador" and "The Silver Market".
Photocopy of a fragment of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 4 no. 3).
Photocopy of an article about the collection of John Hendry, published in Worcester Evening News.
Photocopy of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 22 no. 2).
Copy of an article on seventeenth-century night clocks, from an unidentified publication.
Seven cuttings, mostly from unidentified newspapers.
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).
Bound extracts from HMSO Patents for Inventions (London) for "class 139" specifications for watches, clocks and other timekeepers. Contains subject-matter and name indexes in several chronological sections.
Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.
Loose leaflets showing various clocks and their specifications, brochures, three photographs, Dr Shenton's chronologically arranged handwritten list of clocks. Also includes related correspondence.
Mainly from N.P. Mander Ltd, pipe organ builders. In an envelope addressed to Rita from N. P. Mander.
Oaktree Antiques, selling "town and country furniture, longcase clocks and works of art" is based in Marlet Harborough, Leicestershire.
Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.
The museum, famous for its windmills, also includes a time-piece exhibition. The file also contains a handwritten note with "copy of instructions from Clock no. 1".
A black comedy directed by Sam Walters, performed at The Orange Tree Theatre (Richmond, Surrey) and Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough) in March–May 2001.
Includes press cuttings, event tickets, postcards, advertisements, business cards, stickers, wrappers, receipts etc.
With bibliography on telecommunications.
With an invitation to "See how the wheels go round", a Dorset County Museum event held on 23–25 June 2000.
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.
Bound description, with photographs, of the reproduction of the Salisbury Cathedral Clock, made by William W. Cope.
A very fine quality skeleton clock with hour strike and repeat, on a marble base.
grande sonnerie Vienna regulator.
A fine and small longcase with arched brass dial with moon and mahogany case in the style of Mudge and Dutton.
A good Scottish mahogany longcase with painted, arched dial.
A good provincial lantern clock with hour strike and anchor escapement.
A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered brass dial.
An elegant Vienna timepiece in a cherry wood case and with one-piece dial and cast "pie-crust" bezel.
A good, small London mahogany longcase with arched brass dial, strike / silent and hour repeat.
A fine verge wall clock with 14-inch engraved brass dial.
A fine English dial with verge escapement and the very rare feature of a calendar aperture.
A good mahogany stick barometer with unusual cistern cover and double register plate.
[An unusual clock in a painted porcelain case.]
A fine, open-fronted, mahogany stick barometer by this well-known partnership.
A very fine and large lantern clock in exceptional condition from this important city.
A fine mahogany trunk dial timepiece.
An exceptionally fine, seventeenth-century walnut longcase with panelled bird and flower marquetry, 11-inch dial and movement of month duration, all in outstandingly original condition.
A fine and large lantern clock by a member of this well-known family of clockmakers.
A fine, early and very rare Act of Parliament clock dated c.1795.
A good mahogany longcase clock by this well-known Northumberland maker, with a very rare marriage dial.
A gorge cased carriage clock with alarm and grande sonnerie striking.
A good small carriage clock in an engraved gorge case with engraved and shuttered door and engraved dial mask.
A fine and large lantern clock with original verge escapement and probably of West Country origin.
A fine and well-proportioned bow-front mahogany stick barometer with the very rare feature of an ivory cistern gauge.
A very fine and large mahogany banjo clock barometer.