Main dial: cottages and old towers corners, bottom ones have bridge. Thin paint.
Main dial: gold shells and seaweed in corners, with rose-coloured framing.
Main dial: funny shells corners, yellow ochre band.
Main dial: Paisley-style corners, very bright cream background; large motif dial centre. All very unusual.
Main dial: pink and blue morning glory corners, green plaid ends.
Main dial: cottages and haystacks corners, thin paint.
Main dial: castles with water corners; centre complete repaint; date aperture. False plate: Wilson.
Main dial: abbey ruins corners, thin paint.
Main dial: blue flowers corners; one bird centre. Difficult to date (lots of Wellses at Shipton). This slide has not been digitised.
Main dial: gold shells in pink frame on gold background with lines corners. Poor graphics.
Main dial: cream background, pink and blue corners; gold flower centre, flowers on end of date aperture.
Main dial: gold cornucopias, roses and morning glories; funny long-necked bird centre.
Main dial: roses top, strawberry bottom, all with small blue flowers.
Moon scenes: sailing ship; field landscape. New moon made.
Silvered edge moon dial with tidal numbers. Rather crude simplistic painting with man fishing on one landscape, man shooting on other.
A very bad case of stress cracking from painted dial longcase clock; Frances Tennant made a replacement.
Main dial: false moon; cream background; grapes, gold flowers and anemone corners; gold flowers and anemone centre.
Main dial: roses and strawberry corners; square-ended date aperture.
Main dial: nice dial, could have been made by a number of dial makers (Walker and Hughes or Finnemore). Tiny Arabis minutes, gold flowers corners and breakarch. Unfortunately this clock was stolen.
Iron moon with starry sky.
Main dial: all different abbeys corners; Loch Katrine breakarch. All very well painted.
Main dial: well-painted dead birds in corners; seated hunter and dog breakarch. Nice dial.
Main dial: silly sheep corners, mumpish shepherdess in breakarch. Centre cut out, bad flaking, poor quality.
Main dial: ruined abbeys corners; Swiss lakeside scene breakarch. All well painted.
Main dial: off-white pink background, flared tulips, gold; hunting scene in breakarch with dog and snipe, white borders.
Main dial: houses with tower and water corner, small border, breakarch large house with pillared front in breakarch; boy, dog and people in foreground. Cheerful dial.
Main dial: boy with dog in breakarch, some gold in corners, generally bright corners. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: boy with dog in breakarch, some gold in corners, generally bright corners. False plate: sheet iron.
Main dial: cottages corners; large abbey in breakarch; centre had to be cut out and redone.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: cottage centre, floral and geometric corners.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life; motto "Time flys, pursue it Man" in breakarch. Moon looks 1800-style, Manchester-style maps in hemispheres.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case (shown on slide 231).
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case.
Moon dial: silvered edge, Manchester style of painting, but landscapes have definite blue tinge. Very well painted. Moon has distinctive bulging forehead; possible early 1770s.
Moon scenes: landscape with lake.
Moon scenes: landscape with lake.
Main dial: one-piece silvered dial.
Original article about a watch and chatelaine from the Devonshire Collection, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1980), p. 98. Includes issue cover.
Also includes correspondence and photocopy promotional materials.
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.
Includes letters, order forms, rules for ordering and sale of photographs, and two photographs.
Handwritten. Also includes a newspaper cutting on the re-opening of V&A's Jewellery gallery, and a catalogue of V&A jewellery lantern slides.
Also includes price list and a fax message from Grahame Brooks to Caroline Kemp of Time Products regarding his article on the Geneva Seal.
Also includes handwritten card.
Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present
Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1914), pp. 157–160.
A collection of four silver pair- and triple-cased verge watches in mint condition.
Original article from Antique Finder (April 1973), pp. 56–59. Also includes a review of Carriage Clocks, a book by Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1980), pp. 47–50.
Original article from Antique Collecting (May 1976), pp. 10–14.
A fine and rare "rooftop" Vienna timepiece with one-piece enamel dial.
A very fine and unusually small "Dachluhr" or rooftop timepiece in a strung mahogany case.
Original article from Practical Woodworking (November 1989), pp. 16–21.
An early and exceptionally rare seconds beating Vienna regulator timepiece with a movement of one month duration of the very highest quality in a mahogany-veneered, Laterndluhr case of comparable excellence incorporating numerous constructional refinements.
A rare, very small Viennese Dachluhr timepiece regulator in a cherrywood case.
A very fine and rare "rooftop" Vienna regulator timepiece in a six-light walnut case by these well-known makers.
A good Vienna regulator in a walnut case and with convex enamel dial.
A very fine Vienna regulator timepiece with one-piece milk glass dial, steel pendulum rod and tapered mahogany case strung with maple.
A good Vienna timepiece with one-piece dial in a fruitwood case.
A fine, one-piece dial, Vienna regulator with timepiece movement of one month duration.
A rosewood Vienna regulator timepiece of one month duration.
A very fine and early Vienna timepiece with many interesting features.
An elegant Vienna timepiece in a cherry wood case and with one-piece dial and cast "pie-crust" bezel.
A fine grande sonnerie Vienna regulator by this well-known maker.
An exceptionally fine and rare Vienna regulator on a superbly figured mahogany case and with movement of one-month duration with grande sonnerie striking.
A very rare, grande sonnerie Vienna regulator in a mahogany roof-top case.
A very fine Vienna Laterndluhr regulator with a timepiece movement of three months duration and gridiron compensating pendulum in a case of exceptionally elegant proportions.
A fine, early "six-light" Vienna regulator timepiece with one-piece enamel dial in a strung mahogany case.
A very fine Vienna regulator timepiece in a tapered mahogany case with architectural pediment.
A good Vienna timepiece in a mahogany case.
A fine, mahogany rooftop regulator with the rare feature of a one-piece silvered dial and movement of one-month duration.
An early Viennese regulator in a case exceptionally high quality and elegance and with grande sonnerie movement of 8 days duration.
grande sonnerie Vienna regulator.
A grande sonnerie Vienna regulator of one month duration and of the highest quality.
Floor-standing Vienna regulator with grande sonnerie repeat.
Original binder label states the date as "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 6 October 1979.
A very fine Viennese Laterndluhr with grande sonnerie striking.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 58–59.
Contains a list of all exhibits.
Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.
Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 29 (n.d.), pp. 688–692.
Original article from Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques (October 1990), pp. 226–237. Includes issue cover.
Includes correspondence, handwritten notes and photographs of various Vulliamy clocks sold at different auctions, photocopies of sales catalogue pages, a photocopy of Thomas Reid's letter to B.L. Vulliamy of 1822, and Charles Allix's article "A mid-18th century alarm by Gray and Vulliamy" (Antiquarian Horology, Spring 1994).
Images of dials made by W. H. Price, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1800.
Main dial: blue-grey; carnations and strawberry corners, gesso framed; three birds centre.
Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.