Contains one note only.
Contains annotated tracing of old backplate.
Contains annotated tracing.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains annotated sketches.
Contains one note only.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.
Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings. No original number. Inserted between files 78 and 80.
Contains tracings only. No original number. Inserted between disordered files 79 and 40.
41 pages. Includes clocks quotations; famous clocks of the world; clocks of Berne, Switzerland; clocks of Italy; “My own town”, including Weston-super-Mare's floral clock; other floral clocks; The Festival of Britain clock; Somerset's Cathedral; Exeter's clocks; other clocks of interest; clocks of Denmark, including grandfather clocks and early clocks; clock legends of Hampton Court and Strasbourg; collectors, collections and quaint clocks; and dials ancient and modern. Pages 28 onwards comprise miscellaneous material on a variety of clock-related topics, including Gothic iron clock, long case clocks, other individual clocks, "The Old Clockmaker" article by Richard Church from Country Life (2 December 1949), and clockmaking events and exhibitions.
40 pages. Includes clocks of Scotland; smallest watches; "Negress clock"; astronomical clock of Versailles; Salisbury Cathedral clock; the oldest clock in Paris; clocks of Germany, Holland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Malta, Denmark, Spain and Venice; summer time; clocks of York; Big Ben; concave dial clock at Bristol; grandfather clocks; brochure about the Peace Tower carillon in Ottawa; seventeenth-century clockmakers; Captain Scott's watch; watches in the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers collection; Strasbourg Cathedral clock; clock collection of Mr Hutton-Stott; grandfather clocks; detailed description of the Broadgate "Godiva clock" in Coventry (with original drawings); floral clocks; Lund Cathedral clock, Sweden; Honeybone clocks, etc.
37 pages. Includes address on "Our Ancestors' Clocks and Watches" by M.F. Frederiksen; astronomical clock on Strasburg Cathedral; "Pendulum to Atom" booklet for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute at Goldsmiths' Hall; "Collecting old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Conquete du Temps (booklet presented to visitors of the Swiss Pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition 1958); "Time in Broadcasting' (BBC Booklet produced for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute); Burgos Cathedral clock, Spain; clocks of Southwark and Clerkenwell; Zimmer Tower astronomical clock at Lierre, Belgium; flower clocks; British horologists; atomic clock; clocks of Bornholm; Buenos Aires "Big Ben" clock; world's largest electric clock; work of summer time clock changers; English ormolu mounts; Black Forest cuckoo clocks; Big Ben centenary; broadcast of "Ancient clocks of the West of England"; clocks of Germany and Switzerland; Kravchenko's Sputnik Clock; English church clocks; music scores for "My Grandfather's Clock" by Henry C. Work and "Song of the Clock" by Rex Burchell; early English watches, etc.
41 pages. Includes Honeybone clock at Bristol; clock collection at Belper; "From Clock-watch to Wrist Watch" and "The Rare Grandmother Clock”, articles from Country Life Annual 1955; "Sixteenth century and earlier public clocks" list by G. H. Baillie; clocks of Denmark, Holland and Germany; clocks of Coventry and Winchester; auction sale of Tompion long case clock; "A clock to time the Earth", an article on John Harrison by Alben Philips; floral clocks; copy will of Thomas Honeybone; extract from Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey; Jens Olsen's world clock brochure; Guinness Festival Clock; Westminster Abbey clock overhaul; The Musselburgh Tolboth clock; Ilbert horological collection; the world' first astronomical clock at the Science Museum; extract from The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
37 pages. Includes short history of clocks; floral clocks; Player's Cigarettes cards featuring clocks and other timekeeping devices, with notes; types of devices used for the measurement of time (list with descriptions); "Look and Learn" feature on timekeeping; Breguet watches; Phoenix clock at Westbury; Gamle Ure brochure from the clock museum on Denmark; Chinese clockmaking industry; timing the Olympics [Winter Olympics, Innsbruck]; clock towers of France; "Early provincial clockmakers" by J.K. Bellchambers; The Science Museum Timekeepers booklet; Ferenc Magyar clock and watch collection in Budapest; clock designed for lunar explorers; The Wuppertal clock museum, etc.
36 pages, latter half black. Includes the Wells clock; Benjamin Bowring; hymns by clockmaker James Odey; turret clocks; Stonehenge; clocks of wood, etc.
Typescript. With Dr Ward as the Honorary Treasurer.
Typescript.
Handwritten. Includes: Deutsches Museum Munich, Bayerische Nationalmuseum Munich, Leiden Museum, Swiss museums and private collections (1957), Amsterdam 'Het Atoom' (1957), AHS German Tour 1959, AHS Austrian Tour 1961, and AHS Swiss-Italian Tour 1963.
Mostly typescript, one handwritten. Lectures include "Physics in Time Measurement"; "Bells and Bell Founding" by Douglas Hughes; "Captain Cook's Timekeepers" and "The Clocks of Greenwich Observatory 1675–1930" by Lt. Cdr. H. D. Howse; and two untitled ones. Also includes a description of sidereal clock made by John Shelton.
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.
Handwritten.
Typescript.
Typescript and printed. Also includes notes, handwritten on the backs of unrelated correspondence.
Printed.
15 b/w photographs. Guests include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harris, Dr Ward and others. File also includes a bound article on the Wuppertal Clock and Watch Museum by Allan Lloyd, from "The Antique Collector" (Oct 1966).
39 b/w photographs, captioned. Includes astronomical clocks, table clocks, Tompion bracket clock, monstrance clocks, rack clocks, globe clocks, and watches. Some photographs captioned "AHS property".
2 b/w photographs. "St Jerome with Clock" is based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving "St Jerome in His Study"; and "Sir Thomas More and His Descendants" on a copy of a lost 1527 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Original article from The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art (1852), pp. 246–252.
Original article from Chambers's Information for the People (1860), pp. 273–288.
Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. xxxv–xlii.
Original articles from The Connoisseur, vol. 5 (1903), no pagination.
Incomplete original article from Journal of the Society of Arts (18 June 1920), pp. 505–506 only.
Original article from Newnes Pictorial Knowledge, vol. 9 (1952?), pp. 291–224. General editors R.H. Poole and Peter Finch.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1952), pp. 34–35.
Original article about Smiths Clocks and Watches Ltd, from The Engineer (1 June 1956), pp. 606–607.
Original article from The Meccano Magazine, vol. 44 no. 1 (December 1959), pp. 560–561.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 5 no. 5 (September 1970), pp. 24–26.
Printout of a translation of an article published in the French journal Négation, about workers at the Lip watch factory in France, who began self-managing the firm. Also available online at https://libcom.org/article/lip–and–self–managed–counter–revolution–1973–negation.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 8 no. 11 (March 1974), pp. 33–35.
Original article about Victorian and Edwardian pocket watches, from What's It Worth part 1 (1993), pp. 7–8.
Photocopy of a glossary entry from Practical craft (April 1994), pp. 41–42.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "A".
Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1983), pp. 36–38.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1986), pp. 42–45. Includes issue cover.
Original article from Apollo Miscellany (1950), pp. 1–8.
Original article from Practical Woodworking (November 1989), pp. 16–21.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "B".
Photocopy of chapter 1 of unidentified publication.
Photocopy of an article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 68–69.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1987), pp. 70–71.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide Supplement (October 1988), pp. 36–37.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (August 1977), pp. 66–70.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 66–69.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1981), pp. 75–78.
Original article from an unidentified publication, pp. 48–52.
Original article about address given to to the Royal Society of Arts on 14 February 1946, from Jeweller and Metalworker (1 March 1946), pp. 138–144.
Original article about Ocborne Clocks company from Essex, from Buying Antiques, vol. 1 no. 10 (October 1973), pp. 383–384.
Original article from Endeavour, vol. 27 no. 100 (January 1968), pp. 18–22.
Original article from Antique Collector (October 1975), pp. 28–31.
Original article from Antique Collector (August 1973), pp. 201–206.
A good, small, inlaid mahogany timepiece.
A verge bracket clock in a small, bell-top case decorated with chinoiserie on a finely faded, red ground.
A very fine and exceptionally small ebonised bracket clock by this noted partnership.
A mahogany, banjo, clock barometer of the highest quality.
A good marine stick barometer in a mahogany case.
A fine lantern clock with verge, striking movement and alarm.
A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker. The same as item STR/02/002/018.
A small and elegant rosewood timepiece by a local maker.
A good regency trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial.
A very fine red lacquer bracket clock.
A very fine, ebonised and ormolu mounted bracket clock, quarter striking on 8 bells and with original wall bracket.
A very fine London mahogany longcase clock of the highest quality and in exceptional condition.
This volume also includes a New Year's greeting card with family photograph from "Karyn, Bill and Harrison Frist".
An exceptionally fine and large, satinwood balloon bracket clock.
A good, mahogany, bell-top bracket clock.
A very important and early tavern timepiece in an exceptional state of preservation
A very fine East Anglian longcase in oak and mahogany of best "London" quality
A very fine and small "library" timepiece [with two bronze lions and eagle case].
A fine mahogany bracket clock with verge escapement.
A flat-fronted stick barometer in a well-figured mahogany case by this well-known maker.
A fine and rare large open-faced dial clock.
A fine and very small ebonised bracket clock with three pads and brass mounts by a well-known maker.
An exceptionally elegant mahogany longcase in the style of Dutton, Mudge and Holmes.
A fine, ebony veneered striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat on three bells.
A longcase clock with 12-inch square dial in a walnut case of very good colour and figuring.
A fine and rare English dial with verge escapement, engraved brass dial and double salt-box case, all in exceptional condition.
A mahogany wheel barometer of the highest quality.
A fine and small, repeating mantel clock in an ebonised case by this well-known maker.
A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial and case crossbanded with tulip wood.
A fine, small skeleton timepiece of the highest quality.
A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer of good colour and with 12-inch dial.
A fine and rare hour striking skeleton clock by these noted makers.
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.