Bound photocopy. 49 pages.
Malcolm Gardner (1896–1960) was an antiquarian horologist, horological consultant and bookseller, and Charles Allix's business partner. Robert Gardner (1851–1932), his father, was a manufacturer of marine chronometers. Includes: Robert's and Malcolm's original business correspondence (handwritten and typewritten); published "horological who's who" biographical note on Malcolm; published obituaries of Robert and Malcolm; business certificates; Charles Allix (Malcolm Gardner) Horological Book Catalogue flyers; and Charles Allix's handwritten copy letter to "Sandra" on the death of her father Richard J. Coates.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, clock descriptions, brochures, journal articles, cutouts of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Original article from Country Life Annual (1955), pp. 149–150.
Original article from Country Life (7 August 1958), pp. 266–267.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1950), pp. 26–28.
Original article from Foreign Trade (February 1934), pp. 21–23.
Original article from The Antique Collector (November 1977), pp. 90–94.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 158 no. 635 (January 1965), pp. 3–9.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1950), pp. 20–22.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (Luly 1950), pp. 23–25.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1950), pp. 22–24.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 15 no. 2 (June 1980), pp. 33–35.
Original article about the exhibition of French art in Florence held at Palazzo Pitti in April–June 1977, from The Connoisseur (January 1978), pp. 36–43. Also includes issue cover.
Published by Centre d'Information de l'Horlogerie Française, Paris. 159 pages.
Original annotated price lists from Antique Collecting (July 1979 and July/August 1984), pp. 67 and 16 respectively.
Original article from The Antique Collector (November 1986), pp. 96–101.
Original article from Antique Collector (January 1976), pp. 22–26. Also includes issue cover.
Original articles from The Antique Collector (May 1989), pp. 84–91 and 92–99.
1 colour card, captioned.
This collection comprises a series of eleven scrapbooks and one volume of Honeybone family history. The scrapbooks contain photographs, press cuttings, brochures, booklets, postcards, drawings, cartoons, typewritten quotations, handwritten notes, excerpts from fiction, music scores and other ephemera related to clockmaking and watchmaking, collected by Mildred Frederiksen. The descriptions of each volume in this catalogue provide contents highlights, but do not list every item. Most items are not individually dated.
Frederiksen, MildredPhotocopies of annotated typewritten notes on aspects of the clock: chiming, striking to the nearest second, winding by electric motor, summertime. Includes diagram.
Main dial: blue-grey, fat roses and strawberries bottom, roses and lilies at top, smaller roses either side seconds dial covering dial post, thin base paint. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, typical Byrne gesso corners, ditto date dial.
Main dial: blue-grey with blue domintaing, gesso circle with ray motif centre, green background, gesso-framed peculiar longtailed bird (see bird on 611), two bunches of flowers.
Main dial: blue-grey, gesso corners, gesso small flowers in four places in dial centre.
Main dial: blue-grey, typical Byrne gesso corner small dial.
Main dial: blue-grey, typical Byrne gesso corner small dial, two dials on one slide.
Main dial: blue-grey, pale, rather slapdash morning glories and pears in corners, foliage in dial centre.
Main dial: blue-grey off-white, peaches and anemones in corners, four-arts corners, "Trade" in breakarch.
Main dial: unmarked geometric corners, vigorously painted rose top centre.
Main dial: elaborate floral border, tulips and rosebud with bow in centre, off-white base; no gromets.
Main dial: surprised-looking bird with small flowers dial centre.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, long-tailed bird and rose in dial centre. Interesting early dial; I decided to let Turton's name stand as nothing of Rayner's work was left. False plate: cast iron, Wilson.
Main dial: off-white, shepherd boy with fat sheep in top dial centre, fine wreath on outside, "345" on back of dial.
Main dial: blue-grey, almost Finnemore-style corners with gold and convolvulus corners, no gesso, very blowsy bunch of flowers including rose in breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, lily and ?; gesso-framed corners, flowers in basket including rose in breakarch, vigorous style.
Main dial: blue-grey, convolvulus and lily in gesso framed corners, rose and aster in breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey green background to rose painted corners. Minature scenes similar to W. Tench Stourport, basket of flowers breakarch (see 666 Thompson, wheatsheaf gesso square dial
Main dial: off-white, floral corners, gold leaf framing, large Byrne-type flowers in breakarch. Fine dial, good Byrne work. False plate: cast iron, factor's name.
Main dial: blue-grey, dianthus and honeysuckle corners, gesso framed, peach in dial centre, rose and dianthus or carnation in breakarch, vigorous style.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, wide oval shape, rather bold garlands with roses either side, low oval, gold-banded, containing the battle of Nile. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, wide oval shape, rather bold garlands with roses either side, low oval, gold-banded, containing the battle of the Nile, maybe done to commemorate The Battle of the Nile of 1 August 1798. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, wide oval shape, rather bold garlands with roses either side, low oval, gold-banded, containing the battle of Nile. False plate: cast iron.
Moon dial faces: pink faces, squinty eyes, similar to Wilson. Moon scenes: ship at sea; landscape with two figures, church and bare branch on left.
Moon faces: look quite happy. Moon scenes: two land scenes, one with tower and lake.
Moon dial faces: rather surprised. Moon scenes: tall ship at sea; landscape with pointed roof to house church in distance.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, gesso spandrel-like corners, garland in centre, low gesso framed oval with cottage and landscape, gesso swags at either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, gesso spandrel-like corners, garland in centre, low gesso framed oval with cottage and landscape, gesso swags at either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, slightly blue, green fan corners edged in pink, low oval gold-framed with thighed Britannia and lion, moss roses either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, slightly blue, green fan corners edged in pink, low oval gold-framed with thighed Britannia and lion, moss roses either side. False plate: cast iron. Picture also shows the magnificent case.
Main dial: blue grey Britannia with lion in arch, gesso to side, red medium birds corners tops, nests bottom.
Main dial: blue-grey, roundels with scrumbly green centres corners and gesso wheatsheafs. Centre gesso motif high oval with girl breakarch lots of wheatsheaf, gesso in breakarch. False plate: cast iron, not Wilson.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, gesso circles with swags and flat gold urns in corners, girl going to market in high oval, well-painted open gesso swags either side.
Main dial: off-white, fan corners with straight gesso framing, gold wiggly line outside centre, dot gesso, high oval with ruins in breakarch, roses either side. False plate: four long feet.
Main dial: blue-grey, gesso circles with motif in middle, mid-green with dots around this, gesso dot-framed corners, girl with wineglass in high oval, elaborate gesso scrolling either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: eight-day arched, autumn lady (Ceres?) high oval breakarch, fancy gesso, morning glories and dianthus, well painted, very fine dial floral corners.
Main dial: blue-grey, scythe and hourglass corners in red and blue, complicated scrolling in breakarch, vignette with Cybele, mother goddess of Phrygia, elaborate gesso framing, gilded winding hole.
Main dial: blue-grey, corners Byrne type but more elaborate, cornucopia in breakarch, lots of gesso. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white, blowsy roses and anemonies. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: blue-grey, tulip and semidouble rose in corners, odd birds with willow branch dial centre. Hemispheres: distinctive maps, same as Ashwin, flowers overlap maps.
Main dial: blue-grey, Wilson-style roses but odd leaves, gesso-framed corners, cherries and small blue flowers in centre. Hemispheres: early maps, North America, eclyptic below equator, very wide. False plate: four long feet.
Main dial: off-white, four-seasons corners, heavy-thighed ladies, painted up to edge. Hemispheres: good maps. False plate: cast iron.
Images of dials made by Francis Byrne, a Birmingham dial maker active there in 1772–77 and in London in the 1780s and 1790s.
Original article from Apollo Industrial Magazine, vol. 1 no. 2 (February 1981), p. 10.
Photocopy of an article about watch-chains from Antique Collector (September 1977), pp. 68–69.
A black comedy directed by Sam Walters, performed at The Orange Tree Theatre (Richmond, Surrey) and Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough) in March–May 2001.
Main dial: dirty, geometric corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1979), pp. 64–67.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (June 1957), pp. 45–52.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 364–366. Annotated '81'.
Original article about the late seventeenth-century London clockmakers and their bracket clocks, from The Antique Collector (April 1991), pp. 77–80. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.
Original article from Art & Antiques (25 February 1978), pp. 20–21.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1963), pp. 86–87. One of the fans features a depiction of a clock.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1949), pp. 13–15.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1949), pp. 24–26.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1949), pp. 22–24.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1949), pp. 21–23.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1949), pp. 24–25.
This series contains a typescript volume of Honeybone family history.
Original article from The Antique Collector (October 1982), pp. 104–105.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 10 (March 1983), pp. 33–35.
Original article from Antique Collector (October 1975), pp. 28–31.
Photocopy of two news pages, including articles on "Honors for the Trade", "Casket for the American Ambassador" and "The Silver Market".
The exhibition took place at the Science Museum, London, in May–August 1964. The forms include detailed description of exhibits (mainly bracket and longcase clocks), lenders' names and addresses, delivery arrangements and insurance values.
Includes letters, three press cuttings, and 17 photographs and photographic postcards.
Original article from Antiques (January 1985), pp. 237–244.
Photocopy of an article in two parts from The Chartered Mechanical Engineer (February and April 1978), pp. 80–81 and 85–90 respectively.
Original article about barometers from The World of Antiques no. 2 (Autumn 1989), pp. 36–37.
This collection comprises results of decades of Jeremy Evans’ horological research, including notebooks, assorted files on specific clockmakers, and a database of horological information extracted from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers, most notably a complete record of Daily Advertiser from the beginning of the eighteenth century to c.1753.
Evans, JeremyOriginal article from Antique Collector (February 1961), pp. 3–11.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 428–434.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 675–677 and 678–682. Annotated '92'.
File marked RC6. Includes typewritten and handwritten alphabetical lists of Essex clock and watchmakers, a list of turret and other public clocks in Essex arranged alphabetically by placename, and two issues of Transactions of Chigwell Local History Society (number 1, 1970 and number 2, 1974).
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 58–61.
Original article from The Antiques Journal (April 1970), pp. 16–23. Also includes issue cover.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 13 no. 9 (April 1959), pp. 22–24. Includes issue cover.
Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1976), pp. 42–45.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 17 no. 9 (February 1983), pp. 12–15.