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SHE/01/001 · File · 1799
Part of SHENTON, ALAN AND RITA

Original volume, 445 pages. Full title: Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (London). Includes chapters on: Premiums offered in 1799, Papers in agriculture, Papers in polite arts, Papers in Mechanicks, Paper in colonies and trade, Rewards bestowed, Presents received, Catalogue of models and machines, List of officers, List of members, and Index.

BUN/01 · Series · compiled in the 20th century
Part of BUNT, ERIC AND EILEEN

This series comprises notes and transcripts of fourteenth to eighteenth-century sources relating to clockmaking and watchmaking.

TRE · Collection · mostly 20th century

This 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.

Treherne, Alan
TYLER, JOHN
TYL · Collection · 1966–1992

This collection comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.

Tyler, John
BRO/A/51/002 · File · n.d. [c.1996]
Part of BROOKS, GRAHAME

Includes "The Time Trilogy" of astronomy-related watches ("Astrolabium Galileo Galilei", "Planetarium Copernicus" and "Tellurium Johannes Kepler"), "Perpetual Ludwig", "Jaquemart" minute repeater, "Hourstriker Sonnierie En Passant" (including the "Erotica" version), marine chronometer "1846", "San Marco" chronometers (including ones with enamel cloisonne dials), "GMT +-", "Chronospilt Berlin", "Chronograph", "Sandhurst", "Skeleton", Michelangelo" and "San Marco Alarm" watches.

TEN/B/01/00058 · Item · 1978 Nov
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with Adam and Eve automata in breakarch, engraved and silvered dial centre, with centre date on chapter ring, seconds on dial centre, Rococo spandrels. Crude painting of Adam and Eve, both arms to move and corkscrew serpent (brass) moves around the tree trunk; motto "O Man Except of No Thing that God Forbids" on breakarch.

TEN/B/01/00781 · Item · 1985 Jul
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial, with Adam and Eve automata in breakarch and 6 o'clock moon. One-piece chapter ring and centre, plain with cutout for seconds dial and 6 o'clock moon, name in hemispheres. Two small dials top left and right with date and month. Pointed moon with starry sky looks crude. Arch of dial has scalloped cutout for automata scene. Adam and Eve arms to move, as well as corkscrew flat serpent going around tree trunk. Rococo spandrels. Very unusual.

TEN/B/01/00028 · Item · 1983 Feb
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Main dial: eight-day, 4-train, arched top. Extremely fine clock, matted centre, square date aperture, name in applied oval below centre, separate seconds ring, inner markings to chapter ring, interim markings between Roman numerals; two subsidiary dials top left and right, tune selector in breakarch, head and foliage spandrels, dolphin in breakarch.

TEN/B/01/01338 · Item · 1990 Oct
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Main dial: eight-day, two-train, by either Thomas (1728-55) or Joseph (1772). Matted centre, square date aperture, separate seconds ring, inside chapter ring markings, interim markings; head and foliage spandrels; applied engraved boss in breakarch with winged king catching flies; "Tempus Fugit" motto; chevron engraving at edge of boss; dolphin spandrels in breakarch, "No 1154" engraved on dial.

TEN/B/01/00580 · Item · 1984 Feb
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial; engraved and silvered centre with fierce bird (Nantwich-style), square date aperture, small compass points seconds on dial; Indian head spandrels, dolphin spandrels in arch, which has applied painted boss of two-headed eagle. Chester Military Museum.