Original article about Act-of-Parliament clocks, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1975), pp. 87–89.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1975), p. 63.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 5 no. 4 (August 1970), pp. 4–9.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 95–98.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 3 (July/August 1984), p. 77.
Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1955), pp. 165–171.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 64–65. Includes "Clocks from two centuries", a selection of clocks from the dealers' showrooms.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 6 (November 1981), p. 11.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 22 no. 7 (December 1987), p. 53.
Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1974), pp. 34–44.
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.
Two copies of an original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1972), pp. 107–109.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "Y".
Original article about French origins of the watchmaking craft, from an unidentified publication, pp. 263–267.
Three bound issues: November 1927 (Section 3a), January 1928 (section 1b), March 1928 (section 5c). Produced by Tangent. Includes related correspondence.
Published by Percival Marshall & Co. Ltd (London, n.d.). 197 pages, hardback. Signed by the author for Daniel E. Buckney.
Includes "A forgotten Norfolk clockmaker", an article about John Oldfield by Peter Bolton (p. 418).
Large folder of booklets, articles, circulars, notes, photographs and related correspondence.
Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of Wynn's description of his Society of Arts Gold Isis Medal winning invention of a time-keeper and a compensating pendulum (1817). Also includes, as front, C. G. McKay's short letter about William Wynn, published in Antiquarian Horology (Autumn 1977) and a biographical note about Wynn from the ninth edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers.
Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and Mirror of Science.
Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.
Original extract of an article published in the Proceedings of The Physical Society of London vol. 29 part 2 (February 1917). File also includes revised proof and related correspondence
Photocopy of an article about the collection of John Hendry, published in Worcester Evening News.
Photocopy of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 22 no. 2).
Copy of an article published in "La Clessidra" (no. 6).
Seven cuttings, mostly from unidentified newspapers.
Includes articles about the clock sculpture in Gare St Lazare in Paris, the selling exhibition at Liberty, and heirloom Ducrow clock from the Weekend Telegraph (1994, 1995); long-case clocks and other "antiques of the future", and purchase of "the ultimate circuit timers" from The Daily Telegraph (1994, 1996).
Bound photocopy. 49 pages.
Photocopy of alphabetical name index, giving also year and locality, from an unknown publication. Also contains five photographs and postcards of clocks from Wiltshire and Westmorland.
Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.
Also includes copy of the obituary of Dr Jacob Kienzle (1935), one photograph and related correspondence.
Portfolio of small and large electric and electronic clocks produced in Germany, published in 1973 by Verband der Deutschen Uhrerindustrie (VDU). Also includes three photographs of electric watches and a circular from VDU, in English, about "watch fashions autumn and winter 1981/82".
Mainly from N.P. Mander Ltd, pipe organ builders. In an envelope addressed to Rita from N. P. Mander.
Special issue about watches and their sales, two copies.
Includes copy of "Timekeepers of character", an article about the collection by George Worswick, published in Country Life in January 1978.
The museum, famous for its windmills, also includes a time-piece exhibition. The file also contains a handwritten note with "copy of instructions from Clock no. 1".
Gives fair dates for 2000.
Album containing the complete series of 25 cards. Purchased from The Good Olde Days shop in Brighton.
Original brochure, with description and photographs, of David Ramsay's star-shaped verge watch (now in the museum collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, who purchased it in 1958).
Bound description, with photographs, of the reproduction of the Salisbury Cathedral Clock, made by William W. Cope.
Description and photograph of a reproduction of a mediaeval monastic clock, made by Anthony Fox of Clerkenwell, London, in memory of Colonel Antonio Simoni of Bologna.
11 colour photographs, individually labelled. Exhibition organised by David Day.
Inscribed "J.A. Sutcliffe, Blackpool".
Typescript. With Dr Ward as the Honorary Treasurer.
Typescript.
Handwritten, typescript and printed.
Handwritten.
Typescript.
Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.
Printed.
Handwritten. Used in Dr Ward's lectures on "Early clocks and clock dials as shown in illuminated manuscripts", given at the Science Museum.
Typescript. Two copies.
Printed. Cassette not included. Issued to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' charter.
18 b/w captioned photographs and 3 postcards. Includes regulator clocks, pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks, reconstructions of Hugyens' marine clocks, airpumps, apparatus for measuring centrifugal forces, and Christiaan Hugyens portrait. All photographs endorsed 'Copyright Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden'.
1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.
3 b/w photographs, captioned, taken by L.S. Northcote and Dr Mercer.
2 copies of b/w photographic postcard, in an envelope dated 14 Dec 1967.
13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.
2 b/w photographs. "St Jerome with Clock" is based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving "St Jerome in His Study"; and "Sir Thomas More and His Descendants" on a copy of a lost 1527 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.
4 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope marked "Science Museum Property".
2 b/w photographs.
The subject files contain correspondence, publications, notes and photographs
Includes handwritten notes with detailed description of "Leroux no. 3153".
Includes catalogues, brochures, historical notes, photographs and related correspondence.
Includes correspondence with the Science Museum and other institutions and individuals; copies of the article on "Some Notes on the History of Machine Watchmaking" by Prof. D.S. Torrens (1947); extracts from sales catalogues; notes and correspondence relating to clockmaking tools, and photographs.
Contains snapshots and group portraits from Zurich and Bad Attisholz (nine b/w photographs, uncaptioned, loose), five postcards, and two tour programmes and timetables.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts of catalogue listings.
Includes photocopies of early publications, newspaper articles and photographs.
Includes Joseph Knibb's biography, photocopies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts and printouts of catalogue listings.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, photocopies of journal articles, newspaper articles, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
Makers' surnames include: Cattell, Chambers, Constantin, Constantine, Cooley, Cotsworth, Creed, Crouch, Cuff. The file contains correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.
This collection comprises mainly glass plate and film negatives of early English clocks, clock inscriptions and clockmakers’ portraits, collected by Percy G. Dawson. Many have been used in his books.
Sin títuloThis collection comprises research papers, ephemera, original material, digital files, catalogues and images gathered and created by Alan Treherne in the course of his long-term research into the families and inventions of Peter Stubs and Edward Massey. It also contains cards indexes relating to Alan’s research into clockmakers, watchmakers and workers in allied trades and industries in Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and nearby locations. The records date mostly from the twentieth and early twenty-first century, but also contain photocopies of earlier material.
Sin títuloMain 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.
Moon faces: look quite happy. Moon scenes: two land scenes, one with tower and lake.
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: 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: shell corners, gold leaf roses and oval motif in breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: supercillious. Moon scenes: ship at sea; ruined tower on hill.
Main dial: slightly bluish, white heavy flowers in corners and dial centre.
Main dial: well painted, four seasons in corners, no borders. Hemispheres: USA maps on left. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: bright, well-painted four continents corners, gold band. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four apostles (plates on head), thin painting. Rare date dial. Hemispheres: maps.
Images of dials made by William Finnemore, a Birmingham dial maker active in 1810s–1850s, and one image of a dial by Finnemore & Son.
Main dial: fully-painted abbeys corners; fat pink roses and birds. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: fat pink roses, morning glory in centre, Georgian house and hill in breakarch.
Main dial: flowers corners with gold, two birds on flowers dial centre. Complete strip and repaint, breakarch all gone, repainted with my idea.
Main dial: fruit and slightly geometric corners, two morning glory centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: flowers corners with gold, two birds on flowers dial centre. Complete strip and repaint, breakarch all gone, repainted with my idea.
Main dial: gold-decorated lozenges corners with morning glories, small rose garland dial centre, yellow oval with roses.
Main dial: castles in corners with blue figures, birds in centre. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: gold apex corners, black background to strawberries and white flower. False plate: cast iron.