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An early striking English dial clock with a silvered dial in a mahogany salt box case.

An English dial timepiece with engraved silvered dial.

A very rare English dial clock with flat wood dial and hour striking verge movement.

An exceedingly rare and probably unique English dial timepiece with superbly engraved silvered brass dial.

A good striking dial clock by these well-known makers, the movement signed, numbered and dated.

A very fine and rare late eighteenth-century trunk dial with hour striking movement and one-piece wood dial.

A mahogany trunk dial timepiece of the finest quality by this renowned maker.

Mahogany trunk dial timepiece with a silvered dial inscribed "Robing Room, Court of Chancery, Westminster, AD 1847".

An exceptionally fine and rare trunk dial timepiece by this celebrated maker.

A very fine trunk dial timepiece with fully signed and numbered movement by this celebrated maker.

An early and very rare mahogany trunk dial with convex wood dial and hour striking movement.

A very fine chisel-foot mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this famous maker.

A very good provincial example of a verge English dial [clock] with engraved brass dial.

A good regency trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial.

A verge English dial clock with mock pendulum.

A fine and exceedingly rare verge dial timepiece, fully documented.

A very fine mahogany trunk dial by this master of the Company with the rare feature of a "detached" dial.

A fine and very rare English dial [clock] with 12-inch convex wood dial and hour strike.

An exceedingly fine and rare striking mahogany trunk dial, the case signed and dated.

A good English dial with 12-inch engraved brass dial.

An exceptionally fine mahogany trunk dial [clock] with 14-inch engraved brass dial by these noted makers.

A very rare English dial wall clock with 15-inch engraved and silvered brass dial, saltbox case and verge timepiece movement.

A fine English dial with verge escapement and the very rare feature of a calendar aperture.

A fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this eminent maker.

A nineteenth-century English dial of exceptional quality.

A good, early nineteenth-century English Dial with 12-inch, engraved brass dial.

A fine and rare large open-faced dial clock.

A fine and very rare mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered dial.

A rare striking trunk dial with convex wood dial.

A fine English dial timepiece with 13-inch silvered dial and verge escapement.

A good English dial clock with engraved brass dial and verge escapement.

A good English Dial clock with engraved brass dial and verge escapement.

A fine and early trunk dial timepiece with 16.5-inch convex wood dial.

A fine and early trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial and signed movement.

A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece of quite exceptional quality.

A fine and rare English dial with verge escapement, engraved brass dial and double salt-box case, all in exceptional condition.

A very rare English dial timepiece with 10-inch engraved brass dial and verge movement.

A fine and small English dial clock with the rare combination of silvered dial and octagon case.

An exceptionally fine and possibly unique example of a mahogany trunk dial with 18 3/4 inch one-piece wood dial and hour striking movement.

A fine and rare early English dial timepiece with verge escapement.

A very good English dial timepiece with 14-inch engraved and silvered brass dial and single salt-box case.

A very fine and rare English dial with convex engraved brass dial and verge movement. Same as STR/02/002/058.

A very fine and rare English dial with convex engraved brass dial and verge movement.

A rare, early nineteenth-century English dial timepiece with 12-inch wood dial.

A fine and rare eighteenth-century English dial clock with silvered dial, verge escapement and rise/fall regulation.

A very fine trunk dial [clock] with hour strike and convex wood dial.

A very distinctive mahogany trunk dial with convex wood dial by this well-known maker.

A rare and early mahogany trunk dial with 14-inch flat wood dial.

A very fine and early mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered brass dial.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1959), pp. 32–34.

Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1955), pp. 165–171.

19 b/w photographs, captioned.

Original article from Engineering Materials and Design, vol. 17 no. 2 (February 1973), pp. 19–21. Includes issue cover and contents page.

Printed.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 191–192. Annotated '82'.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 39 no. 3 (October 1985), pp. 90–92. Also includes Round the dealers, a selection of clocks from dealers' showrooms.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1954), pp. 29–31.

Original article from The Antique Collector (November 1987), pp. 106–111.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1950), pp. 15–17.

Original article about Dragon 32 software which "turns your Dragon into a calendar", from Personal Computing Today (September 1983), pp. 33–36.

This collection comprises mainly glass plate and film negatives of early English clocks, clock inscriptions and clockmakers’ portraits, collected by Percy G. Dawson. Many have been used in his books.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1948), pp. 33–35.

6 b/w photographs, captioned.

Original article about the history and techniques of ormolu, the practice of gilding metal, from The Antique Collector (July 1980), pp. 60–63.

A very fine and well-proportioned "Dachluhr" or rooftop timepiece in a strung, mahogany case.

File of loose cuttings and pages from illustrated magazines, journals, bulletins and auction catalogues. Includes photographs.

Articles on: the age of Bristol’s churches; Christie’s watch auction featuring musical watch by James Cox and a John Arnold watch used by Captain Cook (1933); old Salisbury Cathedral clock (1949); repair of a clock hand dislodged from the clock at St Paul's Church Bristol (1953); exports of grandfather clocks to the USA (1972); a Tompion clock at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery in Bedford (1973); R. Gobbs’ article on his work maintaining turret and other clocks (1973); and Sotheby’s sale of a Graham clock at record £36,00 (1974).

Original pages 53 and 403 from The Connoisseur, vol. 35 no. 137 (January 1913).

13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1949), pp. 30–32.

Original article from The Connoisseur (1922), pp. 75–78.

Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 35 no. 137 (January 1913), pp. 27–32.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1954), pp. 35–36.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1976), pp. 74–76.

Two copies of an original article from The Antique Collector (August 1979), pp. 72–74.

Original article from The Connoisseur Year Book (1956), pp. 22–26.

Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1974), pp. 34–44.

Typescript. Also includes four drawings.

Includes newspaper cuttings about clock and watch sales.

Includes annotated typescript of "The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-beat Escapement" by Derek Howse, an article published in Antiquarian Horology (December 1970); pages from the Horological Journal (October 1962) on Tompion pallets; and Northcote's correspondence with Howse, with notes and sketches.

Also includes two b/w photographs.

Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.

This series contains Lewis S. Northcote's correspondence on horological matters.

Mostly handwritten. Includes notes, sketches and calculations.

Includes typewritten obituary by L. Northcote, with list of work done by Hartley; handwritten notes and drafts for the obituary and the list; T.M. Hartley's outgoing letter book (1949–53); brochure and leaflet on John Smith & Sons (Midland Clock Works Derby Ltd); and related correspondence.

Also includes notes. Map not included.