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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.

A brief treatise on the transition from pocket watches to wristwatches.

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

This series contains other horological publications, such as journals and exhibition catalogues

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.

Also includes unofficial printouts of a time zone map and a catalogue page with Ref. 5110 watches.

Also includes a lenticular card featuring the "Fleurettes et Feuillage" pocket watch.

Also includes a press cutting relating to Patek Philippe's Star Calibre 2000 watch (The Mail on Sunday, 8th October 2000, p. 45).

Also includes cover letter.

Two versions of the press release, with some varying prices. One of the slides shows the "No. 760 000" watch sold in 1953 to Mr Champion and a letter referring to the sale.

Also includes cover letters.

The tour took place in October-November 2000, exhibiting over 150 watches in five cities.

In an envelope addressed by Patek Philippe to G. Brooks.

Includes cover letter.

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.

Also includes photopcopies hand-annotated with prices.