Main dial: off-white, anemone bottom, tulips top; gold framing windmill with revolving base in breakarch. False plate: cast iron, Fire Sharp.
Main dial: girl and Nelson monument in breakarch; four-seasons funny faces in corners. Named false plate.
Main dial: off-white, greenish scrumble background and roses corners; centre shepherd on rock, gold band arch and man selling cow. False plate: cast iron, named.
Main dial: pale blue-grey, gold leaf roses with black outline to corners; death of Nelson in breakarch, gold square and circle. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: grey-blue geometric corners, girl in scene breakarch, using gold leaf and bronze powder; gold leaf shell above centre hole.
Main dial: four parts of Great Britain corners; Britannia in seascape dial centre, fully painted with oval pictures, Nelson and Collingwood; breakarch scene "General Le Fevre attacking Cossacks". False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: elaborate corners, gold shield with pink edging, blue anchor, green laurel leaves, green fan like rest of corner, woman weeping in breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: pale blue-grey centre, black with blue underneath, background to gold work; grapevine in breakarch.
Moon faces: pleasant expression, round-eyed, red noses. Moon scenes: blue-roofed, three-storey house; ship at sea.
Moon faces: serious expression, red noses. Moon scenes: girl with hay fork; ship at sea.
Moon faces: sleepy-eyed, pleasant faces, quite pink all over. Moon scenes: ship at sea, side view; landscape with house and old tower.
Moon faces: round-eyed, red noses, pleasant expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; lakeside cottage, red roof.
Moon faces: pop-eyed, surprised look. Moon scenes: ship entering harbour; landscape, cottage and windmill.
Moon faces: very round protuberant eyes, serious expression. Moon scenes: dog (springer spaniel); cottage by lakeside, tree in middle of scene.
Moon faces: round-eyed, pleasant expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; landscape with ruin and pointed-roofed house and tree.
Moon faces: pleasant expression, red noses, red cheeks. Moon scenes: ship; cottage with odd roof.
Moon faces: reasonably pleasant expression. Moon scenes: cottage at lakeside with tree; ship.
Moon faces: pink faces. Moon scenes: cottage; ship at sea.
Moon faces: very round eyes, funny noses, blue around mouth and chin. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with pointed roof by lakeside, tree in the middle.
Main dial: off-white; pink, brown and ochre birds and foliage gesso-framed corners; urn in oval; two side pieces in breakarch gesso frame. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: sheep in corners, framed on outside only. A late Owen with poor artwork. Hemispheres: sepia maps, North America on right. Partly visible moon scene: landscape with church on one side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four continents, gold bands, unusual dial. Same painter as Edward Glaze. Hemispheres: Father Time and a nun or saint.
Main dial: Owen moon roller; moon image missing; urns in corners in ovals blue with white and pink. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: gold band, crooked pots of flowers corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-seasons pink-faced ladies corners, gold framed, gold circle. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: four-continents corners, gold framed, gold circle outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-continents ladies with pink faces, gold framed; outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; four-seasons ladies, small heavy thighs, gesso framed, gold band inside chapter ring. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; four-seasons ladies, small heavy thighs, gesso framed, gold band inside chapter ring. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, primula or auricula gesso-framed corners; cottage and windmill in centre. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey diamond centre, scrolling spandrel-type gesso corners. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: well-painted four seasons, gold line framing. Hemispheres: USA maps, ecliptic below equator. 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.
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.
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".
Also includes cover letter and notes.
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.
Images of dials made by mostly unknown Manchester makers, and by members of the Foster family.
Images of dials made by Liverpool makers: Samuel Hunt and Poston & Woolnough.
Images of dials made by Halifax and Newcastle makers: Beilby Hawthorne & Whitaker, Whittaker & Shreve, William Whittaker, and 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