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Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide and World of Antiques: Collectors' Guide.

Bound photocopies of several articles on various aspects of electrical watches published in Revue Chronométrique: Journal de L'Horlogerie Française.

Photocopies of nine articles published in the Proceedings of The Institution of Electrical Engineers between 1915 and 1962. Includes cover letter, dated 20 Mar 1970, from the Institute to C. K. Aked, with a list of eleven articles on the topic of electrical horology. All in envelope postmarked 24 May 1971.

Bound extracts from vol. 47 of Horological Journal (1955), copy of Ilbert Collection Commemorative Issue of Antiquarian Horology vol. 2 (December 1958), British Museum's leaflet titled The Ilbert Collection: the exhibition of clocks and watches in Edward VII Gallery and the Ilbert students room (1966) and a draft description and plan of the new gallery of clocks and watches.

Photocopies of articles published in Nicholson's Journal, i.e. the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts.

Photocopies of articles published in Alexander Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, later called Philosophical Journal.

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).

Photocopies of excerpts from the Mechanics Magazine vols. 11–58.

Also includes eight photographs, typescripts of "Further notes on some Westmoreland Clock and Watch Makers" (1962) and "Former Clock- and Watch-makers of North Lonsdale" by J.L. Hobbs; handwritten notes on clocks, handwritten draft of L. Northcote's review of Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400–1850 by C.F.C. Beeson (1962) with a cover letter, and a copy of Cake and Cockhorse: the magazine of the Banbury Historical Society vol. 1 no. 2 (1961/62).

Original article about an exhibition at Wartski, 14 Grafton St, London, held on 8–21 March, from Antique Collecting (March 1989), pp. 40–41.

Images of dials made by Ashwin & Company, Birmingham makers active in the 1790s.

Original article from the "Sub–assembly" section af an unidentified publication (April 1972), pp. 28–30.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1970), pp. 64–66.

Original article from The Connoisseur (September 1976), pp. 35–38.

3 b/w photographs, captioned, taken by L.S. Northcote and Dr Mercer.

Original article from The Antique Collector (April 1985), pp. 74–79.

Typescript and six photographs, including "La joueuse de tympanon" and "Oiseaux chanteurs" from Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, St Mark's Clock Bell in Venice, and various figurines from the British Museum.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 95–98.

Original pages from The Connoisseur (January 1957), pp. 263–266, including a short article about Un chef–d'œuvre de l'horologerie anglaise.

Edward Banger was the apprentice of Thomas Tompion (1639–1713). The file includes handwritten notes on mechanical watch movements, list of repairs?, photographs and negatives.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 9 (January 1977), pp. 9–13.

A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer of good colour and with 12-inch dial.

A fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer by this important maker.

A fine flat-front mahogany stick barometer by this noted maker.

A very fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer with thermometer.

A particularly fine, bow-front stick barometer by this well-known maker.

A fine mahogany bow-front stick barometer.

An exceptionally fine angle barometer in the manner of and almost certainly made by the renowned Whitehurst family of Derby.

A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker.

A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker. The same as item STR/02/002/018.

A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker.

A fine "trap-door" marine barometer by this well-known maker.

An exceptionally finely proportioned , bow-front mahogany stick barometer by this well-known maker.

A good marine stick barometer in a mahogany case.

A finely proportioned mahogany wheel barometer.

A finely-proportioned, two-piece, mahogany wheel barometer.

A finely proportioned two-piece mahogany wheel barometer.

An extremely rare and finely preserved walnut stick barometer with Royal Society scale to the thermometer.

A fine, early-nineteenth century open-front stick barometer, delicately inlaid and strung.

A flat-fronted stick barometer in a well-figured mahogany case by this well-known maker.

A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer by this well-known maker.

A fine, flat to the wall, bow-front stick barometer by this noted maker.

A good bow-front marine barometer by this well-known maker.

A very fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer with numerous rare features.

A good marine stick barometer by these well-known makers.

A very fine and extremely rare angle barometer with perpetual regulation of time by this leading instrument maker.

A very fine mahogany marine barometer with original signed gimbals and travelling case.

A fine marine barometer in a frame of partridge wood by this well-known maker.

A mahogany angle barometer.

A good, flat-fronted mahogany stick barometer by this well-known maker.

An exceptionally fine mahogany stick barometer by this noted maker.

A fine and early, round-top, inlaid mahogany wheel barometer.

A very fine, inlaid, flat-front mahogany stick barometer.

A fine, 12-inch mahogany wheel barometer with mercury thermometer graduated in Fahrenheit, Reamur and Celsius.

A fine, four-piece mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial.

A fine four-piece mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial.

A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial and case crossbanded with tulip wood.

A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial and case crossbanded with tulip wood.

A fine and rare mahogany stick barometer by this well-known maker.

A fine eighteenth-century walnut stick barometer.

A fine and rare walnut stick barometer by this noted maker.

A flat-fronted mahogany stick barometer by a provincial maker but of the best London quality.

An extremely rare "angle" or "signpost" barometer by this noted maker.

A mahogany wheel barometer of the highest quality.

A good mahogany flat-fronted stick barometer with both hygrometer and thermometer.

A fine, open-fronted, mahogany stick barometer by this well-known partnership.

A good mahogany marine stick barometer with silvered brass register plate.

A fine and rare mahogany stick barometer.

A mahogany bow-front stick barometer by this celebrated maker.

An exceptionally fine mahogany stick barometer.

A good mahogany stick barometer with unusual cistern cover and double register plate.

A good small mahogany stick barometer with plain round top by this well-known maker.

A fine and well-proportioned bow-front mahogany stick barometer with the very rare feature of an ivory cistern gauge.

A mahogany stick barometer with bulb cistern.

A good, "flat to the wall", bow-front mahogany stick barometer by these noted makers.

A very fine mahogany bow-front stick barometer by these leading makers, incorporating some extremely rare features and in a remarkable state of preservation.