A very fine and early shield dial tavern clock decorated with gilt chinoiserie on a black ground.
Act of Parliament timepiece of rare banjo form.
A very rare and finely decorated tavern timepiece in a lacquered case of a unique banjo style.
A very rare and finely decorated tavern timepiece in a lacquered case of a unique banjo style.
A fine and very large tavern timepiece elaborately decorated with chinoiserie on a black ground, with round dial and gilt numerals.
A very fine and rare miniature tavern timepiece with one at-the-hour strike.
A fine shield dial tavern timepiece decorated with gilt on a black ground.
A very good lacquered tavern clock by this well-known maker.
A very good lacquered tavern clock by this well-known maker.
A black-lacquered Act of Parliament or tavern clock in superb original condition.
An exceptionally fine tavern timepiece with a Hogarth engraving on the door.
A fine and rare tavern clock decorated with chinoiserie and with a coloured print on the trunk door.
A small, fine and exceedingly rare tavern clock with round white dial and banjo or teardrop case decorated with chinoiserie.
Original article from The Antique Collector (April 1984), pp. 13–16. Also includes clock and watch dealers' advertisements and issue cover.
A 2-foot achromatic brass telescope with rack, on brass stand in mahogany case. The photographs are of the telescope, a receipt of original purchase in 1831, and the makers' trade card.
Original article from The Antique Collector (February 1962), pp. 37–42.
This collection comprises over 2,000 framed 35mm colour slides with images of clock dials made mainly but not exclusively by Birmingham makers, taken by Frances Tennant. It also includes four boxes of index cards compiled by her, which were the original finding aids and which have been used in the compilation of this catalogue. The occasionally quirky descriptions of the dials are Frances Tennant's own.
Tennant, FrancesOriginal articles from Antique Collecting (April 1998), pp. 14–17 and 18–23.
Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of an article published in The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society vol. 28.
Original article about Hans Holbein's painting from The Antique Collector (November 1974), pp. 42–45.
Original article from The Connoisseur (May 1972), pp. 36–46.
Original article about the Ruth Allison Lilly watch collection, from The Connoisseur (December 1973), pp. 279–284.
Part 1: Clock with automatons. Original articles from an unidentified publication.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1972), pp. 98–101.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1977), pp. 66–70.
Parts 1 and 4 of a series of original articles from Antiques Advertiser South-East (April/June 1994 and January/March 1995), pp. 20–22 and 24–26 respectively. Part 4 is entitled "The Golden Era of French horology, 1780–1830".
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 14 no. 11 (April 1980), pp. 18–21.
Photocopy of an article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 68–69.
Original article from an unidentified publication, pp. 48–52.
Two original issues, containing articles on sundials, poetry in watches, and horology-related advertisements.
Original article from Antique Collecting (March 1984), pp. 13–15.
Original article from The Antique Collector (April 1970), pp. 91–96.
Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 3–10.
Original article about an exhibition at the Science Museum, Kensington, from The Connoisseur (1952), pp. 100–103.
Original article from Art and Antiques (17 August 1974), pp. 12–15. Also includes pp. 34–35, showing a German polyphon longcase clock.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1975), pp. 134–136.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 126 no. 519 (December 1950), pp. 167–172, 220.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1968), pp. 72–73.
Incomplete original article from Journal of the Society of Arts (18 June 1920), pp. 505–506 only.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (Jan 1959), pp. 19–20.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1975), pp. 67–69.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1980), pp. 69–71.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 8 (January 1983), pp. 23–25.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 41 (n.d.), pp. 980–984.
Original articles, the former about astronomical clocks, from The Connoisseur (November 1973), pp. 195–198 and 199–201.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 158 (January 1965), pp. 46–47. Covers Italian art at the Queen's Gallery, American Grenadier's cap, Langley Bradley of St Paul's and Antiques Fairs.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (April 1958), pp. 69–75.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1974), pp. 96–98.
Original article from Antiques and Art Monitor (1 December–25 November 1978), pp. 24–27.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1949), pp. 85–91. Incomplete.
Original article from the "Collectors' Club" section of Discovering Antiques (n.d.).
Original articles about calendars and eclipses from the Education Supplement of The Guardian (9 July 1991).
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1984), pp. 35–37.
Original article from Art & Antiques Weekly (26 January 1980), pp. 16–18.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 9 no. 10 (February 1975), pp. 9–15. Includes issue cover.
Original article from The Antiquarian (April 1931), pp. 32–34.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 39–41. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (December 1960), pp. 5–14.
Original article from the Journal of the Society of Arts (2 December 1881), pp. 54–66.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 118 no. 502 (December 1946), pp. 117–120.
Original article, probably from Christie's International Magazine (n.d.), pp. 10–13.
Original article about nineteenth-century precision instruments from The Antique Collector (February 1976), pp. 30–33.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 11 (March 1977), pp. 18–21. Also includes antique clock dealers' directory.
Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 22 no. 10 (March 1988), pp. 7–11 and 4–6. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and directory.
Original issue, with an article on "Description of a proposed new uniform pressure clock", news items on a grant to Horological Institute and rating chronometers, and queries re. building seconds clock and lever escapement.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1982), pp. 58–60.
Handwritten. Also includes correspondence regarding required images, photocopy images of the Coster clock at the Science Museum, six b/w photographs of an Italian night clock from the British Museum, and printed 27th annual AHS report.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1969), pp. 90–93.
Pasted photocopy of a children's short story published in Grandfather's Tales (Leicester: Winks and Son).
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1982), pp. 66–67.
Original article from The Connoisseur (February 1969), pp. 76–83.
Bound reprint from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 25 no. 1 (June 1970), pp. 79–86.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 138 no. 556 (November 1956), pp. 100–111.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1973), pp. 80–81.
Original article in two parts from from La Suisse Horlogère (July 1958 and October 1958), pp. 77–82 and 81–90 respectively.
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.
Photocopy of an article from The Connoisseur (April 1926), pp. 220–222.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1933), pp. 160–166.
Original article about Goethe's house in Frankfurt-am-Main, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1975), pp. 86–90.
Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur (September 1973 and February 1974), pp. 2–13 and 113–122 respectively.
Original article from Antique Collectors' Club (October 1977), pp. 2–3.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1988), pp. 53–55.
Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1950, February 1959).
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1972), pp. 57–67. Also includes "An interest in antiques" on p. 55.
Original article from The Connoisseur (February 1971), pp. 93–105.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1981), pp. 60–63.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 10 no. 11 (March 1976), pp. 5–7.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1989), pp. 48–49. Includes issue cover.
Original articles from La Suisse Horlogere (December 1953). Also includes "John Harrison", an article by H. Alan Lloyd.
Original articles from La Suisse Horlogere (December 1953).
Original article from Antique Collecting (February 1978), pp. 20–23.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1959), pp. 55–60.
Original article from Journal of the Society of Arts (21 May 1886), pp. 740–750.
Photocopy of an article from Annals of Science, vol. 45 (1988), pp. 329–344.
Original article about a collection of English furniture, clocks and barometers sold at Christie's on 5 December 1991, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 10 (Spring 1992), pp. 14–15.
Original pages from Journal of the Society of Arts (1853/1854), pp. 107 and 133–135, containing letters about clocks.
Original article from The Antique Collector (October 1938), pp. 263–266.
Original article in two parts from The Antique Collector (1960 August and October), pp. 151–156 and 188–191 respectively.