Main dial: false moon; cream background; grapes, gold flowers and anemone corners; gold flowers and anemone centre.
Main dial: roses and strawberry corners; square-ended date aperture.
Main dial: nice dial, could have been made by a number of dial makers (Walker and Hughes or Finnemore). Tiny Arabis minutes, gold flowers corners and breakarch. Unfortunately this clock was stolen.
Iron moon with starry sky.
Main dial: all different abbeys corners; Loch Katrine breakarch. All very well painted.
Main dial: well-painted dead birds in corners; seated hunter and dog breakarch. Nice dial.
Main dial: silly sheep corners, mumpish shepherdess in breakarch. Centre cut out, bad flaking, poor quality.
Main dial: ruined abbeys corners; Swiss lakeside scene breakarch. All well painted.
Main dial: off-white pink background, flared tulips, gold; hunting scene in breakarch with dog and snipe, white borders.
Main dial: houses with tower and water corner, small border, breakarch large house with pillared front in breakarch; boy, dog and people in foreground. Cheerful dial.
Main dial: boy with dog in breakarch, some gold in corners, generally bright corners. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: boy with dog in breakarch, some gold in corners, generally bright corners. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: cottages corners; large abbey in breakarch; centre had to be cut out and redone.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: cottage centre, floral and geometric corners.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life; motto "Time flys, pursue it Man" in breakarch. Moon looks 1800-style, Manchester-style maps in hemispheres.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case.
Moon dial: silvered edge, Manchester style of painting, but landscapes have definite blue tinge. Very well painted. Moon has distinctive bulging forehead; possible early 1770s.
Moon scenes: landscape with lake.
Moon scenes: landscape with lake.
Main dial: one-piece silvered dial.
Original article about a watch and chatelaine from the Devonshire Collection, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1980), p. 98. Includes issue cover.
Handwritten. Also includes a typescript letter from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, regarding Dr Ward's request for a photograph (not included), and the Museum's postcard showing a Roman vertical disc dial c.250 AD.
Includes letters, order forms, rules for ordering and sale of photographs, and two photographs.
Handwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting on the re-opening of V&A's Jewellery gallery, and a catalogue of V&A jewellery lantern slides.
Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present
Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1914), pp. 157–160.
A collection of four silver pair- and triple-cased verge watches in mint condition.
Original article from Antique Finder (April 1973), pp. 56–59. Also includes a review of Carriage Clocks, a book by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1980), pp. 47–50.
Original article from Antique Collecting (May 1976), pp. 10–14.
A fine and rare "rooftop" Vienna timepiece with one-piece enamel dial.
A very fine and unusually small "Dachluhr" or rooftop timepiece in a strung mahogany case.
Original article from Practical Woodworking (November 1989), pp. 16–21.
An early and exceptionally rare seconds beating Vienna regulator timepiece with a movement of one month duration of the very highest quality in a mahogany-veneered, Laterndluhr case of comparable excellence incorporating numerous constructional refinements.
A rare, very small Viennese Dachluhr timepiece regulator in a cherrywood case.
A very fine and rare "rooftop" Vienna regulator timepiece in a six-light walnut case by these well-known makers.
A good Vienna regulator in a walnut case and with convex enamel dial.
A very fine Vienna regulator timepiece with one-piece milk glass dial, steel pendulum rod and tapered mahogany case strung with maple.
A good Vienna timepiece with one-piece dial in a fruitwood case.
A fine, one-piece dial, Vienna regulator with timepiece movement of one month duration.
A rosewood Vienna regulator timepiece of one month duration.
A very fine and early Vienna timepiece with many interesting features.
An elegant Vienna timepiece in a cherry wood case and with one-piece dial and cast "pie-crust" bezel.
A fine grande sonnerie Vienna regulator by this well-known maker.
An exceptionally fine and rare Vienna regulator on a superbly figured mahogany case and with movement of one-month duration with grande sonnerie striking.
A very rare, grande sonnerie Vienna regulator in a mahogany roof-top case.
A very fine Vienna Laterndluhr regulator with a timepiece movement of three months duration and gridiron compensating pendulum in a case of exceptionally elegant proportions.
A fine, early "six-light" Vienna regulator timepiece with one-piece enamel dial in a strung mahogany case.
A very fine Vienna regulator timepiece in a tapered mahogany case with architectural pediment.
A good Vienna timepiece in a mahogany case.
A fine, mahogany rooftop regulator with the rare feature of a one-piece silvered dial and movement of one-month duration.
An early Viennese regulator in a case exceptionally high quality and elegance and with grande sonnerie movement of 8 days duration.
grande sonnerie Vienna regulator.
Floor-standing Vienna regulator with grande sonnerie repeat.
A grande sonnerie Vienna regulator of one month duration and of the highest quality.
Original binder label states the date as "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 6 October 1979.
A very fine Viennese Laterndluhr with grande sonnerie striking.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 58–59.
Contains a list of all exhibits.
Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 29 (n.d.), pp. 688–692.
Original article from Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques (October 1990), pp. 226–237. Includes issue cover.
Includes correspondence, handwritten notes and photographs of various Vulliamy clocks sold at different auctions, photocopies of sales catalogue pages, a photocopy of Thomas Reid's letter to B.L. Vulliamy of 1822, and Charles Allix's article "A mid-18th century alarm by Gray and Vulliamy" (Antiquarian Horology, Spring 1994).
Images of dials made by W. H. Price, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1800.
Main dial: blue-grey; carnations and strawberry corners, gesso framed; three birds centre.
Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.
Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.
Printed and typescript, some handwritten.
This collection comprises records created and collected by Francis Wadsworth. It includes a large series of original articles by various authors on horological and related topics (cut out of publications, many of them were purchased from antiquarian book dealers), as well as sales and auction catalogues and advertisements for clocks, watches and clockmaking tools; instructions, manuals, and patents; reference publications; alphabetical files relating to clockmaking firms and factories; exhibition and museum brochures; correspondence; ephemera; and papers relating to Wadsworth’s work on the AHS Publication Committee. In addition to purely horological topics, it reflects Francis Wadsworth’s interest in scientific instruments, stately houses and antique furniture and porcelain.
Wadsworth, FrancisMain dial: bronze powder and pink floral corners and breakarch. Unique dial. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: odd corners, lots of lines, copper insert in centre breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: odd corners, lots of lines, copper insert in centre breakarch. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: wheels and diamonds top corners; top scene sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. False plate: W & Hall.
Main dial: weird decoration; flying diamonds and wheel in breakarch, not liked.
Main dial: wheels and diamonds top corners; top scene sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. False plate: W & Hall.
Main dial: wheels and diamonds top corners; top scene sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. False plate: W & Hall.
Main dial: curious wheels which appear to revolve in corners; beautifully painted scene in breakarch of riverside. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: curious wheels which appear to revolve in corners; beautifully painted scene in breakarch of riverside. False plate: cast iron.
Images of dials made by Walker & Finnemore, a partnership of Birmingham dial makers George Walker and William Finnemore established by 1808.
Main dial: breakarch moon; blue flowers in gold background corners.
Main dial: peaches in corners in gold basket. Hemispheres: unusual, maps with outside numbers for latitude, North America on ecliptic above equator. False plate: cast iron
Main dial: rather pale-faced four virtues corners. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four continents corners; gold band around outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: peaches in corners in gold basket. Hemispheres: unusual maps with outside numbers for latitude; North America on left, ecliptic above equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: rosework. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: small roses enclosed in blue scrolls corners. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: all gesso decorations, urn with scrolling; larger urn in breakarch with scrolling. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: small rose corners; odd breakarch - shell with flyaway patterns; two rose scrolls either side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: woman with anchor in breakarch, low oval gold rope surround with moss roses flanking tiny roses corners, gold framing, very interesting dial. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: lady with anchor in breakarch, gold frame, low oval in corners, shaded green-gold border; fancy work in breakarch either side of oval. False plate: cast iron.