Main dial: fan and garland corner; bad blowtorch damage; heavy moon arch. Hemispheres: Hobson maps. False plate: separate slide of false plate. Rather rare dial maker, W.M. Wood, but Hobson maps.
Slide not digitised.
Main dial: peacock feathers corners, heavy Arabic, tail on four, oblong; never seen this. Hemispheres: Hobson maps and moon dial. False plate: cast iron, W. Wood.
Main dial: off-white four-seasons corners; gold band outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic above equator.
Images of dials made by John Wright Fletcher, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1830s–1840s.
Main dial: auriculas in scroll corners, turquoise moire ends, silver leaf base to flowers.
One card per dial. Set also includes some miscellaneous cards with notes. Each card gives dial maker's name, slide numbers, and detailed description of dial that includes: date, type, graphics, signature, main dial description, hemispheres, type of gilded gesso, date aperture, date dial on main dial, seconds dial on main dial, base paint, condition when received, date dial metal, date dial condition
Main dial: brass dial, top arch part moon.
Main dial: one-piece silvered dial with painted moon. Slide 90 shows restored other Harland moon in Columbia Museum, similar to that in slides 19x and 21x.
Main dial: false moon painted on, three abbeys and one cottage corners, crude colours.
Main dial: pink and blue morning glory corners, green plaid ends.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train square dial, matted and engraved centre, ringed winding holes, square decorated date aperture, separate date ring, inner markings to chapter ring, interim markings, smallish Arabic minute numerals, chevron engraving on dial edge, four-seasons spandrels.
Very early, museum piece. Main dial: interesting skeletonised dial.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial, one-piece silvered dial with applied Rococo spandrels, curved date aperture, crude engraving, musical instruments in breakarch. This clock is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, with a fine case but dial does not look right.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, matted dial centre. Large ringed winding holes may have been altered as are off-centre; enormous date aperture, applied seconds ring in centre; head and foliage spandrels.
Moons age engraved on moon dial. Moon faces: nice, dark sky with silvered stars.
Painted moon dial with stars on dark-blue background. Moon dial faces: sad moon, sour expression.
Main dial: well-painted dead birds in corners; seated hunter and dog breakarch. Nice dial.
Main dial: swans in corners; girl with gold leaf, high-waisted dress in breakarch.
Main dial: square-towered churches corners; church with sheep centre.
Moon dial: well painted, with two landscapes, both include water.
Very crude engraved moon dial with stars, Bristol (Connecticut) Museum. Paint in poor condition.
Moon faces: pale-faced. Moon scenes: sailing ship; windmill.
Main dial: eight-day automata, gold (bronze) background to lighthouses and abbeys corners; font and grotto breakarch with silver leaf rocking ship.
Moon dial: silvered edge, Manchester style of painting, but landscapes have definite blue tinge. Very well painted. Moon has distinctive bulging forehead; possible early 1770s.
Main dial: shells and flowers; green background to morning glory corners; black ends to corner with white flowers. Good design.
Main dial: gold flowers all types, cream background; floral corners; woman and child at spring in breakarch; thin paint.
Iron moon. Moon scenes: sailing ship; church with tombstones.
Very fine moon dial with silvered edge to moon showing exact age of moon (this is rare). David Holgares shop Browns in Liverpool has this clock.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life; motto "Time flys, pursue it Man" in breakarch. Moon looks 1800-style, Manchester-style maps in hemispheres.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Main dial: four-seasons boys corners, colours bright, dial centre man on horse talking to woman. Maps in hemispheres. Nice dial.
Main dial: houses and castles corners; top has swans; square Georgian-type houses; humps.
Restoration of silvered-edge moon dial. Dark-blue sky has starts and two comets. Eric Gent has details of clock.
Moon scenes: sailing ship, ruined abbey.
Main dial: gold shells in pink frame on gold background with lines corners. Poor graphics.
Painted edge moon dial from brass dial clock at Speke Hall (Eric Gent). Dark blue background with stars.
Painted edge moon dial from brass dial clock at Speke Hall (Eric Gent). Dark blue background with stars.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with rocking ship in breakarch, silvered and engraved centre with seconds, date on centre of dial, Rococo spandrels; painted seascape in arch with wavy cutout round hole for rocking ship; name on applied piece in breakarch.
Main dial: breakarch moon, gold leaf background to pink rose and blue auriculas corners. Hemispheres: maps. Large dial.
Main dial: pointed ruins top corners, cottages bottom. Thin paint. Hemispheres: cottage in distance.
Main dial: eight-day, gold (bronze) background to cottages and towers and windmills corners; mother and child at stream breakarch. Simple painting.
Main dial: false moon; cream background; grapes, gold flowers and anemone corners; gold flowers and anemone centre.
Main dial: 30-hour, engraved and matted centre, large round ended date aperture, inner markings to chapter ring, interim markings, urn spandrels. Case looks rather primitive, Welsh style.
Main dial: geometric corners with some gold; woman reading book in breakarch, church in distance.
Main dial: bright roses and strawberry corners; moss roses centre.
Main dial: small modified fans corners, shells on green background, yellow triangles, all very bright.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, silvered and engraved centre, square date aperture, small compass points seconds on dial centre; head and foliage spandrels; unusual breakarch with painted landscape inset with trees on hemisphere.
Main dial: cottages with bridge corners; cottage by river breakarch. Poor quality painting.
Main dial: eight-day two-train square dial with 12 o'clock moon, painted centre, shaped date aperture, age of moon painted on moon dial edge (12 o'clock moons are rare with painted centres).
Main dial: arched gold rainbow background on shell corners, navy blue background to shells; corners with gold flowers; breakarch with floral arch.
Main dial: breakarch moon, A. Bell type; silver leaf underlay for houses corners; maps in hemispheres.
Main dial: L-shaped framing for gold auriculas.
Moon dial with one moon face and one bird; navy blue background with stars and a comet.
Moon dial painted almost up to edge, rather crude. Moon scenes: milkmaid, couple.
Main dial: 30-hour, two-train square dial with penny moon. Well painted, large cherub head spandrels, engraving by good engraver, probably Lancashire (see Colin Brown, The Clockmakers of Llanrwst, p. 73: illustration has the same small boat, but semicircular aperture for moons date and date of month); supercilious bird, Dutch-style chapter ring.
Main dial: eight-day breakarch with automata, 1795 or later. One-piece silvered dial, square-ended date aperture, scrolls in corners, decorated breakarch. Good painting in arch background, Adam and Eve rather crude, with arms to move. New serpent made. Interesting clock.
Main dial: eight-day breakarch with automata, 1795 or later. One-piece silvered dial, square-ended date aperture, scrolls in corners, decorated breakarch. Good painting in arch background, Adam and Eve rather crude, with arms to move. New serpent made. Interesting clock.
Main dial: lighthouse corners; harbour at Haverford West in breakarch. Well painted.
Large dial. Main dial: four-continents corners, bright colours, funny looking camel, odd American Indian.
Main dial: bronze powder background to cottages and windmills corners; zinc moon dial. Hemispheres: churches in humps.
Main dial: arched automata; cottage with standing figure corners; cut-out grotto and castle in breakarch, nice colours; rocking ship.
Main dial: funny lions corners; Daniel in lion's den in breakarch, subject named.
Zinc moon dial. Moon scenes: sailing ship, ruined abbey.
Main dial: large gesso oval corners; large Arabic, slender Romans, moon with starry sky.
Main dial: rocking ship with grotto; cottages corners; bright colours; number on false plate.
Moon scenes: sailing ship with flag; cottage.
Main dial: four apostles corners; Last Supper breakarch; gold band. Large dial.
Moon scenes: sailing ship; field landscape. New moon made.
Main dial: nasturtium and blue anemone corners. Small dial, cut-off foot for date dial, name in garland, lots of inscriptions on back.
Main dial: one-piece silvered dial, automata rocking ship. Nice engraving.
Main dial: roses and garland around centre. Has been restored.
Nice moon dial, silvered edge, gold stars.
Main dial: eight-day two-train square dial with 12 o'clock moon, silvered and engraved centre with odd birds in trees, date on dial centre, very fine engraving interim markings on chapter ring. Painted moon with probably two landscapes.
Main dial: very bad previous restoration; breakarch moon, moon very dirty and discoloured; gesso-framed corners, motifs not looking original. Hemispheres: maps, awful.
Main dial: three Apostles and Mary Magdalene corners; nativity scene breakarch, copy of painting? Dates in reverse on dial.
Unmarked spare moon dial, silvered edge. Reasonable but damaged. Moon dial faces: rather crude, brush strokes visible. Moon scenes: mountain with cattle, lakeside with cattle and tree.
Main dial: square-ended date aperture; red rose and small blue flowers centre. Badly damaged by flame or chemical.
Main dial: late dial; abbeys corners; boy and dog in breakarch.
Main dial: rocking ship automata.
Main dial: unmarked, brass dial, oval insert, lady on horse. Grey, poor condition.
Moon dial faces: nice. Moon scenes: two landscape scenes.
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.
Sem títuloFile 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.