A very fine, inlaid, flat-front mahogany stick barometer.
A fine and early, round-top, inlaid mahogany wheel barometer.
An exceptionally fine mahogany stick barometer by this noted maker.
A good, flat-fronted mahogany stick barometer by this well-known maker.
A mahogany angle barometer.
A fine marine barometer in a frame of partridge wood by this well-known maker.
A very fine mahogany marine barometer with original signed gimbals and travelling case.
A very fine and extremely rare angle barometer with perpetual regulation of time by this leading instrument maker.
A good marine stick barometer by these well-known makers.
A very fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer with numerous rare features.
A good bow-front marine barometer by this well-known maker.
A fine, flat to the wall, bow-front stick barometer by this noted maker.
A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer by this well-known maker.
A flat-fronted stick barometer in a well-figured mahogany case by this well-known maker.
A fine, early-nineteenth century open-front stick barometer, delicately inlaid and strung.
An extremely rare and finely preserved walnut stick barometer with Royal Society scale to the thermometer.
A finely proportioned two-piece mahogany wheel barometer.
A finely-proportioned, two-piece, mahogany wheel barometer.
A finely proportioned mahogany wheel barometer.
A good marine stick barometer in a mahogany case.
An exceptionally finely proportioned , bow-front mahogany stick barometer by this well-known maker.
A fine "trap-door" marine barometer by this well-known maker.
A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker.
A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker.
A good, round-top, open-fronted mahogany barometer by this well-known maker. The same as item STR/02/002/018.
An exceptionally fine angle barometer in the manner of and almost certainly made by the renowned Whitehurst family of Derby.
A fine mahogany bow-front stick barometer.
A particularly fine, bow-front stick barometer by this well-known maker.
A very fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer with thermometer.
A fine flat-front mahogany stick barometer by this noted maker.
A fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer by this important maker.
A fine and large mahogany wheel barometer of good colour and with 12-inch dial.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 9 (January 1977), pp. 9–13.
Edward Banger was the apprentice of Thomas Tompion (1639–1713). The file includes handwritten notes on mechanical watch movements, list of repairs?, photographs and negatives.
Original pages from The Connoisseur (January 1957), pp. 263–266, including a short article about Un chef–d'œuvre de l'horologerie anglaise.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1979), pp. 95–98.
Typescript and six photographs, including "La joueuse de tympanon" and "Oiseaux chanteurs" from Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, St Mark's Clock Bell in Venice, and various figurines from the British Museum.
Original article from The Antique Collector (April 1985), pp. 74–79.
3 b/w photographs, captioned, taken by L.S. Northcote and Dr Mercer.
Original article from The Connoisseur (September 1976), pp. 35–38.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1970), pp. 64–66.
Original article from the "Sub–assembly" section af an unidentified publication (April 1972), pp. 28–30.
Main dial: blue/grey, pink roses and moss roses corners, strawberry centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue/grey pink roses and pale auriculas, gesso-framed corners, lead plug in centre of seconds hole, urn with roses painted on top. False plate: CA with false winding square attached.
Reverse of dial, showing name and '366' stamped on false plate and dial.
Moon faces: smiling. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with yellow tree, church in distance.
Moon faces: very serious, pursed up, small mouth. Moon scenes: large ship in rough seas; landscape with house and river, pink in sky.
Moon faces: pink-faced moons, small mouth. Moon scenes: lakeside scene, two people in foreground; two people in boat on lake, sailing ship; artwork sketchy and thin.
Main dial: blue/grey, roses and tiger lilies, small blue flowers corners. Hemispheres: good maps, part outside numbers. False plate: cast iron (clear).
Main dial: blue/grey, shield shaped gesso corners, moss roses centre. Hemispheres: very good maps, same as Byrne. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue/grey base, mid-blue background for gesso corners, typical Byrne Ashwin; gesso pattern, gold outlined in black - very fine. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: CA Ashwin, shallow but clear.
Images of dials made by Ashwin & Company, Birmingham makers active in the 1790s.
Original article about an exhibition at Wartski, 14 Grafton St, London, held on 8–21 March, from Antique Collecting (March 1989), pp. 40–41.
Also includes eight photographs, typescripts of "Further notes on some Westmoreland Clock and Watch Makers" (1962) and "Former Clock- and Watch-makers of North Lonsdale" by J.L. Hobbs; handwritten notes on clocks, handwritten draft of L. Northcote's review of Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400–1850 by C.F.C. Beeson (1962) with a cover letter, and a copy of Cake and Cockhorse: the magazine of the Banbury Historical Society vol. 1 no. 2 (1961/62).
Photocopies of excerpts from the Mechanics Magazine vols. 11–58.
Typewritten and published. Includes "It's about time" (talk with slide list), "An 18th century whimsy", "Some old clocks of West Country", "The Tower of Babel" (Antiquarian Horology December 1953), related correspondence, and an article "How the Chinese invented the mechanical clock" by Joseph Needham (The New Scientist December 1958).
Photocopies of articles published in Nicholson's Journal, i.e. the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts.
Photocopies of articles published in Alexander Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, later called Philosophical Journal.
Bound extracts from vol. 47 of Horological Journal (1955), copy of Ilbert Collection Commemorative Issue of Antiquarian Horology vol. 2 (December 1958), British Museum's leaflet titled The Ilbert Collection: the exhibition of clocks and watches in Edward VII Gallery and the Ilbert students room (1966) and a draft description and plan of the new gallery of clocks and watches.
Bound photocopies of several articles on various aspects of electrical watches published in Revue Chronométrique: Journal de L'Horlogerie Française.
Photocopies of nine articles published in the Proceedings of The Institution of Electrical Engineers between 1915 and 1962. Includes cover letter, dated 20 Mar 1970, from the Institute to C. K. Aked, with a list of eleven articles on the topic of electrical horology. All in envelope postmarked 24 May 1971.
Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide and World of Antiques: Collectors' Guide.