Main dial: four-seasons gold band. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: Owen dial cut out from original, much larger dial with Arabic numbers; name may not be original clockmaker. Carnation and primrose corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron. Owner most uncooperative about any photos or article.
Images of dials made by Edward Owen, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1800s–1820s.
Original article from The Connoisseur (August 1975), pp. 290–299.
Main dial: pheasants with backgrounds corners, stylized baskets of flowers dial centre. False plate: cast iron, marked "Hobson".
Main dial: pheasants with backgrounds in corners, cottage in centre. False plate: cast iron, marked "Hobson".
Main dial: silly sheep corners, flared tulips centre, fantastic house in landscape breakarch. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Main dial: eight-day, shells with decorated bands corners, two ships fighting in breakarch, no real background. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Moon faces: tiny pursed mouth, serious. Moon scenes: nice ship; Gothic ruins. Presumed Hobson; no moon dial so I made one in style of 19 and 20 using new blank (no teeth), December 1996.
Moon faces: very round-eyed, full mouth, pink cheeks. Moon scenes: ship at sea; ruined church.
Main dial: corners well painted. Hemispheres: scenes in humps.
Main dial: quite wide minute band, oval with shell top corner, bottom corner, fleur-de-lys, flared tulips centre. Hemispheres: maps, North America left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Images of dials made by Edward Hobson and E. Hobson & Son, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1830s.
Main dial: rabbits, upside-down tulips and flower centre, very impressive dial. False plate: cast iron, named.
Main dial: very wide minute band, fancy ovals and roses corners, two bright birds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: wider minute band, green background, blue anemone corners with gold ends, fat rosebuds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: formal corners with gold leaf, Hobson ship dial centre.
Main dial: fat pink roses corners, one very large ship, with sea painted edge of breakarch. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Main dial: dark-blue corners with auriculas, shells in decorated arch, use bronze powder paint. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Moon faces: rather pensive, pink cheeks. Moon scenes: small ship at sea; elaborate ruin.
Main dial: four seasons corners, fully painted centre, shepherds and shepherdess in humps. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Includes "A forgotten Norfolk clockmaker", an article about John Oldfield by Peter Bolton (p. 418).
Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 147–151.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 102 no. 444 (August 1938), pp. 68–73.
Original articles from The Connoisseur (September and November 1937), pp. 123–130 and 246–252 respectively.
Original article from Jeweller and Metalworker (15 October 1949), pp. 852–855.
Original article from Jeweller and Metalworker (15 September 1949), pp. 772–774.
2 b/w photographs, captioned.
Original article from The Antique Collector (September 1976), pp. 10–14.
Original article from the "Weekend: Shopping" section of The Times (17 August 2002), p. 12.
Includes typewritten letters in German, with English translations.
Original article about rulers from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1984), pp. 58–60.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1966), pp. 51–62.
This collection comprises material created and collected by the Bristol clockmaker Henry Draisey. It contains notebooks, drawings, plans, correspondence, photographs, glass plate negatives and printed material (books, newspaper cuttings, catalogues, price lists, etc.).
Draisey, HenryTypescript.
Typescript.
Typescript. Also includes related postcards, negatives, exhibition catalogues, captioned photographs of exhibits; and "Gothic Clocks", a bound article by H. Alan Lloyd from "The Antique Collector" (June 1962).
Handwritten.
Photocopy typescripts.
Part I of an original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1975), pp. 75–79.
Original article from Antique and Collectors Fayre, vol. 2 no. 12 (June 1988), pp. 24–26.
Original article from Buying Antiques, vol. 1 no. 3 (1973), pp. 24–26.
Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1961), pp. 158–162.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1975), p. 63.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 690–693 and 694–696.
Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 256–260.
Includes typewritten letters, photographs, copy drawing of La Place Royals de Dijon, Guide to Dijon booklet, Promenade a travers Dijon booklet, and a typescript of an article "The Jacquemart Clock of Dijon". Also includes handwritten letter from the AHS regarding inclusion of the article in the journal.
Photocopy of an article from Wireless World (October 1976), pp. 38–42.
Original article from Das Heimatblättle (February 1972), pp. 1–4.
Published in NAWCC Bulletin vol. 9 no. 11.
Images of dials made by unknown makers.
Original article from Country Life (26 May 1988), p. 214.
A rare Regency striking trunk dial wall clock with engraved silvered dial.
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
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
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
An early striking English dial clock with a silvered dial in a mahogany salt box case.
An English dial timepiece with engraved silvered dial.
A very rare English dial clock with flat wood dial and hour striking verge movement.
An exceedingly rare and probably unique English dial timepiece with superbly engraved silvered brass dial.
A good striking dial clock by these well-known makers, the movement signed, numbered and dated.
A very fine and rare late eighteenth-century trunk dial with hour striking movement and one-piece wood dial.
A mahogany trunk dial timepiece of the finest quality by this renowned maker.
Mahogany trunk dial timepiece with a silvered dial inscribed "Robing Room, Court of Chancery, Westminster, AD 1847".
An exceptionally fine and rare trunk dial timepiece by this celebrated maker.
A very fine trunk dial timepiece with fully signed and numbered movement by this celebrated maker.
An early and very rare mahogany trunk dial with convex wood dial and hour striking movement.
A very fine chisel-foot mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this famous maker.
A very good provincial example of a verge English dial [clock] with engraved brass dial.
A good regency trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial.
A verge English dial clock with mock pendulum.
A fine and exceedingly rare verge dial timepiece, fully documented.
A very fine mahogany trunk dial by this master of the Company with the rare feature of a "detached" dial.
A fine and very rare English dial [clock] with 12-inch convex wood dial and hour strike.
An exceedingly fine and rare striking mahogany trunk dial, the case signed and dated.
A good English dial with 12-inch engraved brass dial.
An exceptionally fine mahogany trunk dial [clock] with 14-inch engraved brass dial by these noted makers.
A very rare English dial wall clock with 15-inch engraved and silvered brass dial, saltbox case and verge timepiece movement.
A fine English dial with verge escapement and the very rare feature of a calendar aperture.
A fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this eminent maker.
A nineteenth-century English dial of exceptional quality.
A good, early nineteenth-century English Dial with 12-inch, engraved brass dial.
A fine and rare large open-faced dial clock.
A fine and very rare mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered dial.
A rare striking trunk dial with convex wood dial.
A fine English dial timepiece with 13-inch silvered dial and verge escapement.
A good English dial clock with engraved brass dial and verge escapement.
A good English Dial clock with engraved brass dial and verge escapement.
A fine and early trunk dial timepiece with 16.5-inch convex wood dial.
A fine and early trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial and signed movement.
A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece of quite exceptional quality.
A fine and rare English dial with verge escapement, engraved brass dial and double salt-box case, all in exceptional condition.
A very rare English dial timepiece with 10-inch engraved brass dial and verge movement.