Images of dials made by Burgess Hartley, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1810s and 1820s.
This collection comprises Eric Bunt’s handwritten notes on watch and clockmakers from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, compiled from original documents held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, and from printed volumes of Calendars of State Papers; handwritten transcripts of eighteenth-century newspaper articles about watch and clock thefts; and Eileen’s Bunt handwritten transcript of Benjamin Gray’s Daybook (original at the Guildhall Library, London).
Bunt, EricOne colour photograph, showing general view of the exhibition and the Rita Shenton Books stall.
This collection comprises mostly wristwatch trade literature sent to and collected by Grahame Brooks over an approximately ten-year period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It includes press releases, product brochures, photographs, slides and CD-Roms, as well as some correspondence.
Brooks, Grahame4 b/w photographs.
The museum, famous for its windmills, also includes a time-piece exhibition. The file also contains a handwritten note with "copy of instructions from Clock no. 1".
3 b/w photographs. File also includes a typescript cover letter from Jennifer Blain of Strike One Limited.
Printed. Cassette not included. Issued to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' charter.
Original article about Smiths Clocks and Watches Ltd, from The Engineer (1 June 1956), pp. 606–607.
Includes letter, photographic service receipts, and one photograph.
Photocopies of an article about the exhibition published in The Horological Journal in June 1924 and of the special 1974 edition of Wembley History Society Journal.
Original binder label says "August 1993", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 25 October 1993.
Original binder label says "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 21 July 1979.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 3 (July/August 1981), p. 29.
A very fine, brass-mounted, ebonised, inverted bell-top bracket clock.
A verge bracket clock in a small, bell-top case decorated with chinoiserie on a finely faded, red ground.
A fine and very small, ebony-veneered timepiece with passing strike.
An unusually small, finely proportioned mahogany bell-top bracket clock, striking the quarters on eight bells.
A good mahogany bell-top bracket clock, signed on dial and backplate.
A bell-top mahogany bracket clock of good proportions and colour.
A fine and very small ebonised bracket clock with three pads and brass mounts by a well-known maker.
A rare bracket clock in a bell-top case decorated with chinoiserie on a red ground.
A fine, large bracket clock decorated with chinoiserie on a red ground and with arched brass dial with two subsidiary dials.
A good mahogany bracket clock with its original wall bracket.
A mahogany bell-top bracket clock with centre carrying handle and arched brass dial with moon dial.
A fine, small ebony veneered bracket timepiece with pull quarter repeat on two bells of about 1695.
A good Regency mahogany bracket clock with rise and fall regulation and strike/silent.
A fine Regency rosewood bracket clock in a chamfer top case and with replacement wall bracket.
A small and rare ebonised bracket timepiece with silent pallet verge escapement, alarm and passing strike.
A most imposing, George III, quarter chiming bracket clock.
A very fine and rare George III bracket clock by one of the most eminent clockmaking partnerships.
A good mahogany bell-top bracket clock with three-train verge movement quarter striking on eight bells and with two subsidiary dials.
A small rosewood bracket clock
A very fine bell-top bracket veneered with mahogany, with four-tune musical movement and automata.
A very fine red lacquer bracket clock.
A good, small ebonised bracket clock with brass inlay, 7-inch white dial and pull hour repeat.
A fine and well-proportioned ebony-veneered bracket clock with quarter repeat on six bells.
A very good mahogany, bell-top bracket clock with enamel dials, verge escapement and original mounts throughout.
A very good and small mahogany bracket clock in an arched-top case with fine brass mounts.
A good bell-top bracket clock veneered with mahogany and with arched brass dial and verge escapement.
A very fine and small arched-top bracket clock with enamel dial and subsidiary dials, alarm and silent pallets.
A good, early nineteenth-century mahogany bracket clock with chamfer top and matching wall bracket.
A very fine musical and automaton bracket clock in a case veneered with tortoiseshell and profusely mounted with ormolu by this master of the Clockmakers' Company.
A fine, ebony veneered striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat on three bells.
A finely proportioned , brass-inlaid, rosewood bracket clock complete with replacement wall bracket.
A fine and small ebonied bracket clock by this celebrated maker.
A fine mahogany bracket clock with verge escapement.
A fine mahogany bracket clock with verge escapement.
A fine and unusually small, satinwood, balloon bracket clock in exceptional condition.
An exceedingly fine mahogany bell-top bracket clock with three-train fusee movement striking the quarters on eight bells.
A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with arch dial subsidiaries for date, strike/silent and rise and fall regulation and with verge escapement and pull quarter repeat on six bells.
An arch-top, mahogany bracket clock by this good maker.
A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, basket-top case.
A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, basket-top case.
A fine and small, ebony veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, baster top case
A good, mahogany, bell-top bracket clock.
A Regency mahogany chamfer-top bracket clock of the finest quality.
A particularly small and elegant Regency bracket clock in a well-proportioned rosewood case.
A fine and small Regency rosewood bracket clock with hour strike and repeat.
A fine Regency rosewood chamfer-top bracket clock with good brass ornamentation and complete with replacement wall bracket.
A very good mahogany chamfer-top bracket clock with numbered movement and case.
A good bell-top bracket clock in a finely-proportioned mahogany case.
A fine, ebony veneered bracket clock retaining all the original case mounts and with verge movement, quarter repeating on three bells.
A fine, ebony-veneered bracket clock retaining all the original case mounts and with verge movement, quarter repeating on three bells.
A mahogany arch top bracket clock by this noted maker. The image also shows a similar bracket clock signed "J. Thwaites"
An extremely elegant satinwood balloon bracket clock quarter chiming on eight bells.
A fine, small ebonised bracket clock with brass mounts and enamel dials and with replacement wall bracket.
A fine walnut bracket clock with inverted bell-top case, arched brass dial, hour strike with pull repeat and strike/silent by this celebrated maker.
A very fine, early eighteenth-century bracket clock in a case of Kingwood and with verge escapement, quarter repeat and alarm.
A fine and small ebony-veneered timepiece with pull quarter repeat by this well-known maker.
A fine George III period mahogany and gilt-mounted quarter-striking musical bracket clock.
A good mahogany bracket clock with brass inlay and matching wall bracket.
A good, small, brass-inlaid rosewood bracket clock by this fine maker, with replacement wall bracket.
A bell-top bracket clock, the case with chinoiserie decoration on a red ground, all in an exceptional state of preservation.
A good Regency mahogany bracket clock by this noted maker, complete with replacement wall bracket.
A small and well-proportioned mahogany arch-top bracket clock.
A mahogany bell-top bracket clock with enamel chapter ring and strike/silent.
A very fine, ebonised and ormolu mounted bracket clock, quarter striking on 8 bells and with original wall bracket.
A very fine, ebonised and ormolu mounted bracket clock, quarter striking on 8 bells and with original wall bracket.
A very fine and rare miniature bracket clock in a case veneered with olive wood by this great maker.
A fine mahogany bracket clock with an enamel dial and centre date hand in an arched-top case and in exceptional condition.
A very fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with hour strike and repat, alarm and strike/silent.
A fine, three-pad, mahogany bracket clock with arched brass dial.
An unusually small mahogany bell-top bracket clock with alarm and very finely finished movement.
A good mahogany bracket clock with brass dial, arched top case and repeating movement with verge escapement.
A fine and small ebonised bracket clock with verge escapement, silent pallets and pull quarter repeat on six bells.
Brinkman London / G. Hutchinson George IV mahogany, chamfer top bracket with strike/ silent and hour repeat.
A fine and unusually small rosewood bracket clock with hour strike on a bell and with hour repeat.
A fine George III bracket clock in a brass-bound case veneered with richly figured mahogany with four corner pineapple finials and a single acorn finial to the centre mound of the bell-top case.
An exceptionally fine mahogany musical bracket clock playing twelve tunes by this eminent maker.
A bracket timepiece in a flat-topped case veneered in walnut and olive wood oysters, by this most celebrated of English makers.
A most imposing Georgian bracket clock made by one of the finest clockmakers of the period.
An exceptionally fine mahogany bracket clock with profusely mounted case and quarter striking movement of great originality by this famous maker.