A good English carriage timepiece.
A signed and dated verge/alarm lantern clock in an exceptional state of preservation.
A very good lacquered longcase clock with finely preserved chinoiserie decoration on a green ground.
A very good mahogany chamfer-top bracket clock with numbered movement and case.
A fine and unusually small mahogany Act of Parliament or tavern timepiece by this well-known Royal maker.
A pagoda-top longcase with two coloured prints on the trunk door. One photograph shows another longcase clock with the case decorated with chinoiserie on a red ground.
An unusually small and extremely rare shield-dial tavern timepiece in a remarkable state of preservation by this fine Suffolk maker.
A fine and very rare mahogany trunk dial timepiece with engraved and silvered dial.
An arch-top, mahogany bracket clock by this good maker.
A mahogany arched-top bracket clock with a finely engraved silvered dial.
A very fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer with thermometer.
A very fine mahogany longcase clock with 8-bell quarter striking movement by this noted maker and Master of the Clockmakers' Company.
An exceptionally fine tavern timepiece with a Hogarth engraving on the door.
A most imposing Georgian bracket clock made by one of the finest clockmakers of the period.
An exceptionally fine English carriage clock by this noted maker, complete with original winding key and travelling box.
A fine and rare eighteenth-century English dial clock with silvered dial, verge escapement and rise/fall regulation.
A very fine George III longcase clock of small proportions, the elegant and refined case veneered with richly figured mahogany.
A rare and very fine small mahogany tavern clock.
A rare and early mahogany trunk dial with 14-inch flat wood dial.
A fine and unusually small, lacquered tavern timepiece by this member of a well-known West Country family of clockmakers.
An exceedingly rare and probably unique English dial timepiece with superbly engraved silvered brass dial.
A fine early and very rare lacquered tavern timepiece with passing strike.
A fine and large skeleton timepiece of two-weeks duration, with passing strike at the hour, elaborate and highly decorative plates and superbly figured marble base.
An unusually small and extremely rare shield dial tavern timepiece in a remarkable state of preservation by this fine Suffolk maker.
A fine and rare tavern clock decorated with chinoiserie and with a coloured print on the trunk door.
Early European clockmaking. A very finely preserved south German painted iron chamber clock of c.1620, quarter striking and with alarm.
A small William IV rosewood library timepiece with engraved silvered dial and fusee movement, the case with recessed brass carrying handle and adjustable bun feet.
A fine, small and rare tavern timepiece with white dial in a lacquered case.
A fine and impressive black-lacquered shield dial tavern timepiece.
A very fine and rare skeleton timepiece made by the celebrated Condliff and retailed by William Moorhouse.
A very finely proportioned mahogany Laterndluhr timepiece.
An exceedingly rare, mid-nineteenth-century Black Forest clock pedlar or Uhrentrager in a quite exceptional state of preservation.
A fine and exceedingly rare mahogany 2banjo" or "teardrop" weight-driven timepiece.
A fine, miniature timepiece / alarm lantern clock in wonderfully original condition.
A very fine mahogany bow-front stick barometer by these leading makers, incorporating some extremely rare features and in a remarkable state of preservation.
This volume also includes a New Year's greeting card with family photograph from "Karyn, Bill and Harrison Frist".
41 pages. Includes various clocks (Hampton Court, Berkeley Castle, Houses of Parliament); George Honeybone; Salisbury Cathedral clock; various clocks of Britain, Prague, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France; curiosities; two well-known Danish clocks; bracket clocks; long case clocks; eighteenth-century clocks; Greenwich mean time; atomic clock; Honeybone clock; miscellaneous clocks; history of Big Ben, etc.
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 candle-lighting clock; "The story of the British watch and clock industry"; Mr Vine's matchstick clock; "Clocks", an article by Sheila Richardson about clocks of Nuremburg, Prague, Strasbourg and Lund; Kienzle watch museum brochure (in German); article on Stanley Humphrey's maintenance of government clocks; the Birdcage Clock; long case clocks; Winchester Empire Clock; John E. Ginson's article on the passing of time; Big Ben; Mr and Mrs Bromley's clock collection at Belper; American clocks; new battery-driven clocks; radiation risk of luminous dials; Crucifix Clock, etc.
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.