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An exceptionally rare mahogany banjo or teardrop weight-driven wall clock with engraved and silvered dial.

A mahogany bell-top bracket clock with centre carrying handle and arched brass dial with moon dial.

A rare mahogany Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece by this fine maker.

A very good, burr walnut longcase with arched dial showing the moon's age.

A fine longcase clock with 12-inch dial, the case veneered with pollard oak.

A rare bracket clock in a bell-top case decorated with chinoiserie on a red ground.

A very fine bell-top bracket veneered with mahogany, with four-tune musical movement and automata.

A finely proportioned bell-top bracket clock decorated with chinoiserie on a green ground.

A verge English dial clock with mock pendulum.

A good mahogany flat-fronted stick barometer with both hygrometer and thermometer.

A fine and unusually small rosewood bracket clock with hour strike on a bell and with hour repeat.

A very fine and rare George III bracket clock by one of the most eminent clockmaking partnerships.

A very fine, engraved, gorge-cased carriage clock with grande sonnerie strike on bells.

A fine, early-nineteenth century open-front stick barometer, delicately inlaid and strung.

A particularly small and elegant Regency bracket clock in a well-proportioned rosewood case.

Mahogany trunk dial timepiece with a silvered dial inscribed "Robing Room, Court of Chancery, Westminster, AD 1847".

A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece of quite exceptional quality.

A very good and small mahogany bracket clock in an arched-top case with fine brass mounts.

A very fine, brass-mounted, ebonised, inverted bell-top bracket clock.

A fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this eminent maker.

A fine sedan timepiece in a brass-bound ebonised case.

A fine sedan timepiece in an ebonised case of distinctive style.

An exceptionally fine mahogany bow-front, flat-to-the-wall stick barometer.

A fine and rare sedan timepiece in brass-bound case of ebonised pearwood.

A very well preserved tavern clock with round white dial and chinoiserie decoration.

A very finely decorated tavern clock with round white dial.

A rare French sedan timepiece in an ebonised shield-shaped case with silt suspension loop.

A very fine sedan clock incorporating a feature unique in our experience.

An early striking English dial clock with a silvered dial in a mahogany salt box case.

A very fine Viennese mahogany Laterndluhr with grande sonnerie striking and of 8 days duration.

These are loose photographs and descriptions, originally inserted in volume STR/02/017.

Vienna regulators in this file are mostly duplicates of those listed in files STR/02/001-018, although included are also some photographs of other, often unlabelled Vienna regulators.

This series contains scrapbooks of press cuttings, excerpts from publications and ephemera relating to horological news and curiosities.

41 pages. Includes royal palace clocks; clocks of Salzburg, Loches and Milan; the Christ (or the Twelve Apostles) clock at Goslar, Germany; clocks around the world (Ceylon, the USA, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Poland) and Britain; Michael Bateman's article on "Timing the Future"; watch exhibition at the Hague; Big Ben; Wells Cathedral clock; Timex Time through the ages brochure; tower clocks; notes on curious types of clocks (shadow clock, clock jacks, silent clock, Act of Parliament clock, water clock, sundial stained glass window); Alex Lloyd's article on collecting old clocks; Salisbury Cathedral clock; sundials; Jens Olsen's clock; clocks at the Nottingham Antiques Exhibition; clocks of Rothenburg and Nuremburg, etc.

41 pages. Includes Honeybone clock at Bristol; clock collection at Belper; "From Clock-watch to Wrist Watch" and "The Rare Grandmother Clock”, articles from Country Life Annual 1955; "Sixteenth century and earlier public clocks" list by G. H. Baillie; clocks of Denmark, Holland and Germany; clocks of Coventry and Winchester; auction sale of Tompion long case clock; "A clock to time the Earth", an article on John Harrison by Alben Philips; floral clocks; copy will of Thomas Honeybone; extract from Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey; Jens Olsen's world clock brochure; Guinness Festival Clock; Westminster Abbey clock overhaul; The Musselburgh Tolboth clock; Ilbert horological collection; the world' first astronomical clock at the Science Museum; extract from The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

This series contains a typescript volume of Honeybone family history.

Typescript, hardback. Includes sections on family trees, name origins, reunions, circulars, obituaries, Honeybone clocks, etc. The Honeybones were Mildred Frederiksen's maternal family; William Abraham (b.1887) was her cousin.

Makers' surnames include: Earnshaw, East, Eastwick, Eayre, Ebsworth, Eccless, Eck, Edwards, Elliott, Ellicott, Elliott, Elphinstone, Emery, Etherington, Eva, Evans, Ewer.

Makers' surnames include: Hackett, Halifax, Hall, Hally, Hampson, Hanson, Harbart, Harbert, Herbert, Hardinge, Harmer, Harper, Harris, Harrison, Harvey, Harvie, Hasius, Hatfield, Hawkins, Hayler, Hayley, Hebert, Henderson, Herbert, Hewitt, Hicks, Higgs, Hill, Hindley, Hindmore, Hocker, Hodges, Holland, Holloway, Holmes, Hopkins, Houlgrave, Howard, Howse, Hubbard, Hubert, Hughes, Hulbert, Hunt, Hunter, Huntsman, Hurt, Hutchin, Hutchinson, Hynam.

Makers' surnames include: Abchurch, Addis, Aldworth, Allam, Allin, Antram, Appley, Archambo, Arnold, Aspinall, Asselin, Audouin, Austen.

Makers' surnames include: Eagle, Earnshaw, East, Ebsworth, Edlyne, Ellicott, Elliott, Etherington, Evans.

Makers' surnames include: Farmer, Farr, Faulkner, Faver, Fennell, Ferry, Field, Fitter, Fladgate, Flashman, Fleetwood, Fontaine / Torin, Fort, Foster, Frodsham, Froome.

Makers' surnames include: Macham, Maddock, Marchant, McCabe, McKensy, Man, Mann, Marchant, Margetts, Markham, Markwick, Marriott, Marshall, Martyn, Martin, Martineau, Mason, Massey, Massy, May, Mayhew, Maynard, Mayowe, Menis, Meriton, Michel, Miller, Mitchell, Mitchelson, Mondehare, Moran, Morrison, Mowtlow, Mudge, Murgatroyd, Murray.

Makers' surnames include: Wady, Wagstaffe, Wainwright, Waldron, Walker, Walter, Ward, Warre, Warren, Watson, Watts, Webb, Weeks, Wells, Weston, Wheatley, Whichcote, White, Wightman, Wightwick, Willcox, Williams, Williamson, Willoughby, Wilmshurst, Wilson, Winrowe, Wise, Witherston, Wolfall, Wright, Wyche.

Makers' surnames include: Younge, Young. This file also includes some listings and articles about multiple clocks by various other makers (Miller, Hoddle, Hodgkin, Quare, Threlkeld, Pride, Jones, Hunsdon, Milles, Motley, DeCharmes, Garon, DuChesne, Antram, Markham, Cox, Higgs, Evans, Rimbault, Rivers & Son, and unknown makers).

This collection comprises Roger Carrington’s research papers relating to clockmaking and watchmaking in the north of England, and the role of insurance records in researching horological history.

File marked RC13/2. Includes typewritten lists of watches and clocks for sale by various dealers based in York, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire, including Rarities International, Kingsway Galleries, Castle Galleries and Roy James and Co.

File marked RC13/3. Includes correspondence, descriptions, journal articles, photographs and negatives relating to Robin-type escapement (Robert Robin, 1742-1799 was a French clockmaker and inventor of the combined anchor-spring escapement). Also includes a copy of Horlogerie Ancienne (December 1978).

This series contains extracts from eighteenth and nineteenth-century fire insurance policies relating to clockmaking businesses. They were compiled from manuscripts held at the Guildhall Library (now part of The London Archives).

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 500–555 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–7 of the fire policy register MS 7252, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–36 of the fire policy register MS 7255, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

This series contains alphabetically arranged subject files of correspondence, photographs, drawings, press cuttings and publications relating mainly to remarkable European clocks.

Includes letters, two photographs and a brochure titled Petite Historie d'Aigueperse.

Typewritten and published. Includes "It's about time" (talk with slide list), "An 18th century whimsy", "Some old clocks of West Country", "The Tower of Babel" (Antiquarian Horology December 1953), related correspondence, and an article "How the Chinese invented the mechanical clock" by Joseph Needham (The New Scientist December 1958).

Includes letters, a typewritten extract from La Cathedrale de Beauvais by V. Leblond, and a photographic postcard.

Includes letter and a photographic postcard.

Includes letters, a typewritten article, an illustration of the clock, and three photographs.

Includes nine photographs, two postcards, one printed drawing and two negatives of clocks from Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle; Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris; a sixteenth-century automatic clock in the shape of a ship from a private collection, and some of unidentified origin.

Includes three photographs of the Dondi Clock and article from Horological Journal (June 1961), and a brochure titles Globes and Spheres by H. von Bertele.

Includes typewritten letters in German, with English translations.

Includes letters, three photographs and photographic postcards, a typewritten article "Uber die Kunstuhr am Heilbronner Rathaus" and a press cutting from Amtsblatt, a local newspaper, about the restoration of the town hall.

Includes typewritten letters, five photographs, a tourist map of Alsace featuring a photograph of the clock, and typewritten articles on "Kunstuhr in Molsheim" and "Les horloges astronomiques et Monumentales: Molsheim".

Includes typewritten letters, two printed photographs, and a newspaper cutting from Beschaulich Daheim (1933) with an article "Die Kunstuhe an Rathaous zu Plauen".

Includes "The Accutron: the world's first electronic watch" (Horological Journal 1961), typescript of "The watch of to-morrow", list of the Horstmann collection of antique watches, and two photographs.

This collection comprises mostly wristwatch trade literature sent to and collected by Grahame Brooks over an approximately ten-year period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It includes press releases, product brochures, photographs, slides and CD-Roms, as well as some correspondence.

This collection comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.

Includes scrap notes on individual makers 1720–1885, and Hampshire Record Office guide to new public areas.

Includes handwritten lists of individuals' names from extracted from various directories 1797–1845; scrap notes, some relating to earlier sources; and related correspondence.

Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present

This collection comprises Eric Bunt’s handwritten notes on watch and clockmakers from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, compiled from original documents held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, and from printed volumes of Calendars of State Papers; handwritten transcripts of eighteenth-century newspaper articles about watch and clock thefts; and Eileen’s Bunt handwritten transcript of Benjamin Gray’s Daybook (original at the Guildhall Library, London).

This series comprises notes and transcripts of fourteenth to eighteenth-century sources relating to clockmaking and watchmaking.

Names include David Ramsay, William Partridge, Edward East, Thomas Tompion and others.

This is a copy of a two-volume list compiled by Francis Buckley and G. B. Buckley, held at the Guildhall Library (ref. CLC/239/MS03338/001-002). Newspapers include The Post Man, The Daily Courant, The Daily Post and General Advertiser, The Daily Journal and London Gazette. The file includes a list of references to lost pieces by Gray and Vulliamy, and references to other lost watches not included in the original volume, some in the hand of Eileen Bunt.

This series contains Lewis S. Northcote's correspondence on horological matters.

Includes typewritten obituary by L. Northcote, with list of work done by Hartley; handwritten notes and drafts for the obituary and the list; T.M. Hartley's outgoing letter book (1949–53); brochure and leaflet on John Smith & Sons (Midland Clock Works Derby Ltd); and related correspondence.

Mostly handwritten. Includes notes, sketches and calculations.

Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.

Includes annotated typescript of "The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-beat Escapement" by Derek Howse, an article published in Antiquarian Horology (December 1970); pages from the Horological Journal (October 1962) on Tompion pallets; and Northcote's correspondence with Howse, with notes and sketches.

This series contains notes, typescripts and publications compiled by Lewis S. Northcote, authored both by himself and others.

Printed copy of an article "communicated at Lancaster, 14th September 1933",

Contains sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, tracings, sketches and a typewritten report on the clock's condition and provenance.

Contains letter from "John" and a small sketch.