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'.
Originally published in Alte und moderne Zeitmessung, no. 5/6 (Callwey Verlag, Munich, 1991).
Includes Swiss price list.
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.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1984), pp. 51–53.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1981), pp. 42–44.
Original article about locks [sic] from The Connoisseur Year Book (1957), pp. 100–108.
Original identical articles from Antique Collecting (May 1973), pp. 29–31, and Antique Finder, vol. 14 no. 4 (April 1973), pp. 36–38.
Original article in three parts from Apollo (March 1952, May 1952, January 1953). Also includes page 116 from The Connoisseur (n.d.) with a short note about a Bradley clock.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1902), pp. 191–193.
Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1975), pp. 37–40.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1987), pp. 70–71.
Original article in English with the original German version, from Antique Finder (April 1973), pp. 50–54.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (September/October 1947), pp. 386–391. Annotated '80'.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (October 1954), pp. 1–30.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1961), pp. 38–40.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1952), pp. 23–25.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (February 1953), pp. 14–16.
Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts of catalogue listings.
Photocopy typescript. With a cover letter from the AHS addressed to Dr Ward.
Images of dials made by Eli Fenton, a Birmingham dial maker active in 1807–31.
Main dial: off-white geometric corners with details, long-tailed birds in centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: slightly bluish, white heavy flowers in corners and dial centre.
Main dial: very rare level Roman, green background to corners, roses and auriculas, cherries in centre.
Main dial: very rare level Roman, green background to corners, roses and auriculas, cherries in centre.
Main dial: very rare level Roman, green background to corners, roses and auriculas, cherries in centre.
Moon faces: dotted eyebrows, red cheeks and nose. Moon scenes: small ship; mansion with pine trees.
Moon faces: slightly surprised. Moon scenes: ships at sea; square Georgian house.
Moon faces: small faced moon. Moon scenes: peanut boat; windmill.
Moon faces: jolly-looking, red cheeks. Moon scenes: ship with lateen sail; landscape with red church house.
Moon faces: red cheeks and nose. Moon scenes: ship at sea; ruined tower on hill.
Moon faces: supercillious. Moon scenes: ship at sea; ruined tower on hill.
Moon faces: round eyes, red nose and cheeks, smiling. Moon scenes: Duke of Wellington; small boat at sea.
Main dial: shell corners, gold leaf roses and oval motif in breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: bright, well-painted four continents corners, gold band. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white four continents, well and distinctively painted - not usual sort. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four apostles (plates on head), thin painting. Rare date dial. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: tulips and auriculas, pattern-framed corners on outside only, birds centre with small flowers. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-seasons ladies, white-faced Greco-Roman, ladies corners, gold band on outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: well painted, four seasons in corners, no borders. Hemispheres: USA maps on left. False plate: cast iron.