Ebony-veneered bracket clock with pierced bracket top, verge escapement and quarter repeating on five bells and with strike-silent.
A fine bell-top bracket clock decorated with chinoiserie on a rich red ground, all in an excellent state of preservation.
A fine and small rosewood Regency bracket clock with the rare feature of ting-tang quarter striking and complete with wall bracket.
A very fine mahogany Regency bracket clock by these two well-known makers and complete with replacement wall bracket.
A very fine mahogany Regency bracket clock by these two well-known makers and complete with replacement wall bracket.
A good Regency rosewood bracket clock by these well-known makers, complete with a replacement wall bracket.
A very fine, rosewood veneered, chamfer-top bracket clock by these well-known makers.
A good and small ebonised chamfer top bracket, well inlaid with brass, by this fine maker.
A very fine and small rosewood chamfer-top bracket clock by this noted maker, complete with wall bracket.
A fine and small Regency bracket clock with a movement of the highest quality.
An exceptionally fine and small mahogany bell top bracket clock with arched brass dial and verge escapement.
An exceptionally fine and large, satinwood balloon bracket clock.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 2 (June 1978), pp. 58–59.
A very fine and small brass inlaid ebonised bracket clock with porcelain dial.
Includes press cuttings, event tickets, postcards, advertisements, business cards, stickers, wrappers, receipts etc.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 10 (n.d.), pp. 235–240.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), p. 88.
Printout, arranged alphabetically by author's name.
Typescript and printed.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 8 no. 7 (November 1973), pp. 24–27.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 76–78.
An exceedingly rare, mid-nineteenth-century Black Forest clock pedlar or Uhrentrager in a quite exceptional state of preservation.
Striking clock.
1/4 striking clock.
Original articles, the former in two parts, from Apollo (1948), pp. 105–107, 138–139 and 140–141.
Original article from Endeavour no. 100, vol. 27 (January 1968), p. 2.
Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.
Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.
Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.
Contains snapshots and group portraits from Zurich and Bad Attisholz (nine b/w photographs, uncaptioned, loose), five postcards, and two tour programmes and timetables.
Contains snapshots and portraits from Paris, Lyons and Besancon (38 b/w photographs, captioned, one loose and the rest pasted onto 7 cards); two photographic postcards; three banquet menus (two with guests' signatures); map of Paris public transport; and Lily Hudson's Foire de Paris pass. Captions do not give names of people in the photographs.
This series comprises photographs and papers relating to the British Horological Institute’s trips and the “British Clockmaker’s Heritage” exhibition, as well as some later material.
Contains one b/w photograph, captioned, pasted onto card. Caption does not give the names of people in the image.
Includes letters, a typewritten article, an illustration of the clock, and three photographs.
Includes handwritten genealogical notes, mainly on Seymour and Lambourn families.
Original article from Apollo, vol. 141 no. 400 (new series, June 1995), pp. 25–33.
Original article from The Burlington Magazine, vol. 141 no. 1155 (June 1999), pp. 328–337.
Includes letter and a photographic postcard.
Original articles from The Connoisseur (June 1975), pp. 126–129, 130–137 and 138–141.
Includes letters, a typewritten extract from La Cathedrale de Beauvais by V. Leblond, and a photographic postcard.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1955), pp. 31–33.
Main dial: off-white, all gesso decoration, quite elaborate in breakarch.
Image of a dial made by Beard & Company, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1790s.
9 b/w photographs, captioned.
Photocopy of an article from Newnes Practical Mechanics (June 1952), pp. 310–311.
Handwritten copy. Also includes a provisional list of Reading clockmakers.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1984), pp. 60–61.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 10 no. 6 (October 1975), pp. 24–25.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1950), pp. 16–18.
An exceptionally rare Queen Anne walnut stick barometer in a remarkable state of preservation.
A rare, early eighteenth-century walnut stick barometer in the manner of John Patrick.
An important early eighteenth-century walnut and marquetry stick barometer.
[A stick barometer]
A very well-proportioned, 11 1/2- inch, four-piece satinwood wheel barometer.
Angle barometer.
A good open-front "paddle-top" stick barometer.
An exceptionally fine mahogany bow-front, flat-to-the-wall stick barometer.
An exceptionally fine bow-front stick barometer by these well-known makers, incorporating several rare features.
A very fine mahogany bow-front stick barometer by these leading makers, incorporating some extremely rare features and in a remarkable state of preservation.
A good, "flat to the wall", bow-front mahogany stick barometer by these noted makers.
A mahogany stick barometer with bulb cistern.
A fine and well-proportioned bow-front mahogany stick barometer with the very rare feature of an ivory cistern gauge.
A good small mahogany stick barometer with plain round top by this well-known maker.
A good mahogany stick barometer with unusual cistern cover and double register plate.
An exceptionally fine mahogany stick barometer.
A mahogany bow-front stick barometer by this celebrated maker.
A fine and rare mahogany stick barometer.
A good mahogany marine stick barometer with silvered brass register plate.
A fine, open-fronted, mahogany stick barometer by this well-known partnership.
A good mahogany flat-fronted stick barometer with both hygrometer and thermometer.
A mahogany wheel barometer of the highest quality.
An extremely rare "angle" or "signpost" barometer by this noted maker.
A flat-fronted mahogany stick barometer by a provincial maker but of the best London quality.
A fine and rare walnut stick barometer by this noted maker.
A fine eighteenth-century walnut stick barometer.
A fine and rare mahogany stick barometer by this well-known maker.
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 four-piece mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial.
A fine, four-piece mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial.
A fine, 12-inch mahogany wheel barometer with mercury thermometer graduated in Fahrenheit, Reamur and Celsius.
A very fine, inlaid, flat-front mahogany stick barometer.
A fine and early, round-top, inlaid mahogany wheel barometer.
An exceptionally fine mahogany stick barometer by this noted maker.
A good, flat-fronted mahogany stick barometer by this well-known maker.
A mahogany angle barometer.
A fine marine barometer in a frame of partridge wood by this well-known maker.
A very fine mahogany marine barometer with original signed gimbals and travelling case.
A very fine and extremely rare angle barometer with perpetual regulation of time by this leading instrument maker.
A good marine stick barometer by these well-known makers.
A very fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer with numerous rare features.
A good bow-front marine barometer by this well-known maker.
A fine, flat to the wall, bow-front stick barometer by this noted maker.
A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer by this well-known maker.
A flat-fronted stick barometer in a well-figured mahogany case by this well-known maker.