Main dial: signature scroll-like ribbon across dial centre, four continents, well painted, distinct style corners. Hemispheres: vague words and doves of peace, gold band edges.
Main dial: peaches and gold band corners, maps.
Main dial: green background, red roses, corners gold ends. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: gold flowers corners, scene of "cottage cares" in breakarch.
Main dial: gold flowers corners, scene of "cottage cares" in breakarch.
Main dial: gold with green ends corners.
Main dial: dark-blue background to corners, small orange flowers with bird and gold ends, bird centre.
Images of dials made by Samuel Wilkes and Wilkes & Son, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1820s and 1830s.
Main dial: turquoise background to corners with peaches; two birds centre. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Main dial: gold and Prussian blue flowers corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Main dial: Heavy corners with sgraffito style in "Gold" bits - prob brass, and white rounds with roses. Hemispheres: maps with outside latitude numbers.
Main dial: dark-blue background to light flowers and small gold band. Hemispheres: gold-edged humps, doves, worlds.
Main dial: darkish turquoise background, gold heart and white flowers. Hemispheres: gold doves and worlds, gold band edges to humps. False plate: sheet iron, unstamped.
Main dial: breakarch moons, primroses in corners, with gold blue wings maps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Main dial: four-seasons corners, gold sky. Hemispheres: maps outside latitudes. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: green background, fruit in gold cornucopias corner; gold doves with rays and gold edges humps. False plate: sheet iron, stamped "Wilkes".
Main dial: breakarch moons; four-elements corners; well-painted high water on breakarch maps. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Son, Birmingham.
Main dial: polyanthus corners on green background. Hemispheres: framed maps.
Main dial: dark background, pink flowers corners ("H. Foster Lpool 1848-51" had been put on). Hemispheres: doves and worlds, gold edging, very sketchy.
Main dial: funny shells corners; two birds dial centre, scenes of church, crude painting. Hemispheres: silver-leaf edges. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: not a large dial, four-seasons ladies corners. Hemispheres: maps were replaced. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: very wide breakarch, four-seasons corners, very bright crude painting, cottages and houses. Hemispheres: humps, gold edges, house and cottage. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: four-seasons girls corners, bright colours, gold flowers humps. False plate: sheet iron, unmarked.
Main dial: Roman numbers in gold with black outlines; blue chapter ring; four-continents corners, waterside, scenes hemispheres. False plate: sheet iron.
Moon faces: rather round-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, slightly quizzical expressions. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with pointed tower.
Moon faces: round-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, serious expressions. Moon scenes: ship with widespread sails; ruined abbey on left.
Moon faces: slightly sleepy-eyed, small mouth, pink cheeks, pleasant expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; large ruin with tower.
Moon faces: round-eyed, pink cheeks, small mouths, pensive expressions. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with tower on hill.
Moon faces: serious. Moon scenes: building with tower; ship at sea.
Moon faces: heavy-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, dreary expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; very pointed church ruin.
Moon faces: rather round-eyed, small mouths, pink cheeks, dreamy expressions. Moon scenes: ship with widespread sails; cottage on a bluff.
Moon faces: round-eyed, very pink cheeks, small mouth, pensive expression. Moon scenes: ship with widespread sails; cottage by a road with figure.
Moon faces: heavy-eyed, small mouths, bright pink cheeks, pensive look. Moon scenes: ship at sea; swan on lake with temple.
Moon faces: red noses, red cheeks, pleasant expressions. Moon scenes: peanut-shaped boat on sea; cottage with windmill in distance.
Moon faces: round-eyed, very full mouths, low-down red cheeks. Moon scenes: log-like ship at sea; house with red chimney by road with figure.
Moon faces: round-eyed, very full mouths, low pink cheeks. Moon scenes: log-like ship at sea; house by water edge.
Moon faces: quite different artist; small eyes, small mouth, very red cheeks. Moon scenes: white swan on slanted river; white house on waterslide.
Moon faces: eyes close together, red cheeks, small mouths similar face in slide 1311 breakarch. Moon scenes: swan on riverside; boat going wing and wing.
Moon faces: very pink all over, eyes close together, not well done. Moon scenes: ship at sea; two cottages by waterside.
Moon faces: round-eyed, red-cheeked, loose lower lips. Moon scenes: typical Wilkes, wide-spread sails on ship; cottage by water edge.
Main dial: dished small dial, green background to corners with small fan, gold flowers with white buds; fancy pastel cornucopia with gold flowers breakarch.
Main dial: dished dial, turquoise background to gold flowers corners; gold flowers in breakarch.
Main dial: all transfer print decorations; arrival of post in breakarch.
Main dial: pink roses in gold corners; Clive of India in breakarch.
Main dial: attempt at Walker & Hughes, bitty style corners, garlands in humps. False plate: cast iron, Wilkes & Son.
Main dial: large dial, dished; four apostles, girl and dead lamb; boy and dog hemispheres - bathos! False plate: SF.
Main dial: abbeys and cottages corners; large dial. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: sheet iron, well marked.
Main dial: mid-green background gold flowers corners; gold flowers in humps. Hemispheres: gold flowers.
Main dial: automata rocking swan; pale blue background to corners with wild flower, swan on arch. Crude painting, thin ground paint, name obliterated. False plate: sheet iron, stamped.
Main dial: ship automata, pink flowers on pale green corners.
Moon faces: well-painted, serious. Moon scenes: fantastic painted ruin; ship at sea stern on.
Moon faces: very red cheeks, red noses, eyes looking slightly upwards. Moon scenes: small cottage with standing figure; very sideways ship at sea, lots of other small ships in distance.
Moon faces: very red-cheeked. Moon scenes: log-like ship; square Georgian house, blue roof.
Moon faces: dark, round-eyed, red cheeks and ends of noses, features all rather together in centre. Moon scenes: ship at sea with very wide spread sails; church with spire.
Main dial: girl feeding chickens in breakarch; spotted deer in corners.
Main dial: green background to gold flowers corners; woman dipping water out of pool breakarch.
Main dial: very poor condition, thin ground, extensive rust damage; pink roses, yellow daisies, blue flowers, repeat corners; man with gun and pheasant breakarch. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: pale blue corners with single roses or hibiscus and red shapes.
Main dial: blue-roofed houses corners; two cottages centre. Had been arched then cut off; rather a heavy dial. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: shells in gold corners; gold birds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: bright corners shells, date aperture.
Main dial: pale yellow ochre stencil-like corners, green orange and blue floral. False plate: sheet iron, faintly stamped "S Wilkes".
Main dial: gold flowers outlined blue-green in corners.
Main dial: painting of churches and white houses corners, no borders. False plate: cast iron.
Loose leaflets showing various clocks and their specifications, brochures, three photographs, Dr Shenton's chronologically arranged handwritten list of clocks. Also includes related correspondence.
Handwritten, typescript and printed.
Includes typewritten letters, order slips, regulations, and a list of photographs and lantern slides of objects in the Museum's time measurement collection. Also includes an invitation to a private view of Huygens' pendulum clock, and a photographic postcard of the Dover Castle clock.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 20 no. 7 (December 1985), pp. 66–67.
Original article about pocket–sized instruments including timepieces and compasses from Antique Collector (July 1980), pp. 76–78.
Original article about items from the collection of J. A. Billmeir, from The Connoisseur, vol. 134 no. 540 (November 1954), pp. 85–91.
Original article from Art & Antiques Weekly (19 May 1973), pp. 27–31. Includes issue cover and contents page.
This series contains scrapbooks of press cuttings, excerpts from publications and ephemera relating to horological news and curiosities.
A very good Sedan timepiece.
A rare French sedan timepiece in an ebonised shield-shaped case with silt suspension loop.
A fine and rare sedan timepiece in brass-bound case of ebonised pearwood.
A very fine sedan clock incorporating a feature unique in our experience.
A very rare sedan timepiece in its original mahogany travelling case, the clock case dated.
A fine sedan timepiece in an ebonised case of distinctive style.
A fine sedan timepiece in a brass-bound ebonised case.
Letter from the original "Notes and Queries" section of The Connoisseur (1924), pp. 99–100.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, photocopies of journal articles, newspaper articles, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Photocopy of an article in three parts from Wireless World (August, September and October 1976), pp. 47–51, 63–66 and 73–77 respectively.
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