Large folder of booklets, articles, patents, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.
The stock/sales books list every clock that went through the business. They record the stock number, date of purchase, description, supplier, cost, repair details (description, repairer, dates and cost), total cost, retail price, date sold, sales price and buyer's name and address. The unique stock number given to every item consists of a three- or four-digit month and year tag, followed by a sequential number.
The book includes ten items purchased before the foundation of Strike One in February 1968; they were given stock numbers 468.1-468.10.
Includes a typewritten letter and an article on "The Strasbourg Clocks", and ten photographs and photographic postcards.
This collection comprises business records of Strike One Limited, specialist dealers in antique clocks and other horological items, founded by Milo Mighell in 1968. They include stock/sales books, which list every item that went through the business; clock photograph albums, which contain an image of every clock, together with a typed description (a ‘descriptive ticket’); clock files arranged by clock type, with individual clock descriptions; as well as a handful of sales and exhibition catalogues and other publications with Milo Mighell’s contributions. The archive also contains an interview with Milo Mighell conducted by James Nye in 2024; although not created as part of Strike One’s business activities, it sheds valuable light at its and its founder’s history.
The unique stock numbers, which were assigned to each item at the time of purchase and appear across the collection for cross-referencing purposes, are made up of two parts separated by a full stop/point. Before the full point is the month and two digits for the year. After the full point there is an incremental number assigned to each new purchase. For example, stock number 868.123 indicates August 1968, purchase 123.
Strike One LimitedIncludes catalogues for the English dial clocks (June-July 1978), Act of Parliament clocks (c.1978) and bracket clocks (summer 1982) exhibitions.
Includes catalogues for summer/autumn 1981, winter 1989 and an undated one, which refers to Milo Mighell's 28 years in the business [c.1996].
Original article about lantern clocks, from The Antique Collector (February 1981), pp. 68–72.
An exceptionally fine, English striking wall clock with silvered dial and mahogany case in the manner of Thomas Hope.
Original article in two parts from The Watch and Clock Journal (n.d.), pp. 21–25 and 48–53.
3 b/w mounted photographs, captioned.
This series contains alphabetically arranged subject files of correspondence, photographs, drawings, press cuttings and publications relating mainly to remarkable European clocks.
The subject files contain correspondence, publications, notes and photographs
2 pages only, written on the insides of hardback covers removed from a notebook (notebook not present)
Bound photocopy of an HMSO publication, subtitled "comprising determination and division of time, dialling, clocks, watches and other time-keepers". Includes a circular from The Patent Office Library about its transfer to the British Library.
Original article about alarm clocks from The Sunday Times Magazine (7 February 1988), pp. 64–65.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–100 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 101–195 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 202–299 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 300–399 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 400–499 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 500–555 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–99 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 100–199 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 200–300 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 301–399 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Handwritten extracts from volumes 400–527 of policy register series MS 11937, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.
Bound printed alphabetical list of names of clockmakers, watchmakers, jewellers and other horology-related professionals, compiled by R.F. Carrington from the policy registers of the Country Department of the Sun Life Insurance Company (now Sun Insurance Office Ltd; The London Archives ref. CLC/B/192/F/003/MS11937). Gives name, policy register volume number, placename and occupation.
Includes an extract from Vitruvius on sundials and waterclocks, a journal page showing "A Strange House in Fex", articles from Newles Practical Mechanics, pages from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide; letters from the Moroccan Embassy in London, The Science Museum, and Prof. Paul D. Espinasse of Hull University, handwritten notes and sketches, and 20 photographs and photographic postcards.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1951), pp. 21–23.
Typescript.
Includes handwritten notes, some on scrap paper; a typescript report on a rebuild of a thirty-hour old English longcase clock; correspondence with Reigate and Banstead Borough Council re. longcase clock signed William Budgen; descriptions of an electric wall clock signed "F. Booker Forest Hill" and a multi-dial wall regulator made in 1899 by Arthur Kinder, etc.
Original article about Swatch wrist watches from The Times Saturday Review (30 November 1991), p. 32.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 78 (1971), pp. 1858–1862.
Original article from Antique Collecting (March 1995), pp. 9–12.
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 Antiques Weekly (12 June 1971), pp. 23–26.
Original article about the evolution of mystery clocks from Art & Antiques Weekly (26 January 1980), pp. 19–22. Also includes horological dealers' directory and issue cover.
Delivered at a Northern Section meeting on 11th May. Copy of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.
Typescript and printed. Also includes notes, handwritten on the backs of unrelated correspondence.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1953), pp. 33–35.
An exceedingly rare Scottish tavern clock by this maker of repute.
A fine, small and rare tavern timepiece with white dial in a lacquered case.
A rare mahogany tavern or Act of Parliament timepiece.
An exceptionally rare tavern timepiece by this noted partnership.
An extremely rare Act of Parliament or tavern clock with wood bezel and hour striking movement. Also included is 'Bristol "Act of Parliament" clocks', an article by Adrian Burchall from Illustrated Bristol News (May 1973).
A good shield dial tavern timepiece with white chapter ring and coloured print on the trunk door.
A very rare and finely-decorated teardrop tavern clock.
A fine and unusually small, lacquered tavern timepiece by this member of a well-known West Country family of clockmakers.
A very fine and rare mahogany tavern timepiece by these well-known makers.
A very fine and rare mahogany tavern timepiece by these well-known makers.
A rare mahogany Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece by this fine maker.
A fine and small tavern timepiece with round white dial, chinoiserie decoration to the case and a movement of the highest quality.
A very fine and rare mahogany tavern timepiece by this well-known maker.
A fine mahogany tavern timepiece with passing strike by this Royal maker.
An exceptionally fine, green lacquered, Tavern or Act of Parliament timepiece.
An exceptionally finely preserved tavern or Act of Parliament timepiece, recently removed from the Swan Hotel, Wells.
An exceptionally finely preserved tavern or Act of Parliament timepiece, recently removed from the Swan Hotel, Wells.
A rare Act or Parliament or tavern timepiece with shield dial and coloured prints on the trunk door and case.
A rare and very fine small mahogany tavern clock.
A fine, early and very rare Act of Parliament clock dated c.1795.
A fine and very rare Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece in a large "banjo" case and in a quite exceptional state of preservation.
A very fine and rare mahogany tavern timepiece.
A fine and large lacquered tavern timepiece with round white dial.
A fine and extremely rare miniature tavern timepiece with coloured print on the door.
A fine and extremely rare miniature tavern timepiece with coloured print on the door.
The very earliest style of Parliament clock, in fact a true tavern clock.
A fine and impressive black-lacquered shield dial tavern timepiece.
An exceedingly rare mahogany tavern clock with silvered dial and hour striking movement.
An exceedingly rare mahogany tavern clock with silvered dial and hour striking movement.
A fine early and very rare lacquered tavern timepiece with passing strike.
A fine and large tavern timepiece with round white dial and chinoiserie decoration on a black ground.
A very well preserved tavern clock with round white dial and chinoiserie decoration.
A very rare, shield-dial tavern clock in an exceptional state of preservation.
A very fine Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece by one of Liverpool's most celebrated makers.
An exceedingly rare tavern clock with hour striking movement.
A fine, small and very rare Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece in a "banjo" case with chinoiserie decoration by this famous maker.
A fine and very rare Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece in a chinoiserie decorated banjo case with round white dial by this celebrated maker.
A fine and very rare Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece in a chinoiserie decorated banjo case with round white dial by this celebrated maker.
A fine and rare mahogany tavern timepiece.
An unusually small and extremely rare shield-dial tavern timepiece in a remarkable state of preservation by this fine Suffolk maker.
An unusually small and extremely rare shield dial tavern timepiece in a remarkable state of preservation by this fine Suffolk maker.
A fine shield dial tavern timepiece in an exceptional state of preservation and illustrated and described ion both English Dial Clocks and Kent Clocks and Clockmakers.
A fine, large mahogany tavern timepiece by this Master of the Clockmakers' Company.
A fine and unusually small mahogany Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece by this well-known Royal maker.
A very important and early tavern timepiece in an exceptional state of preservation
A very finely decorated tavern clock with round white dial.
A rare and very finely preserved tavern clock by East Anglia's greatest maker.