Photocopy of an article published in Wireless World.
Copy of an article on seventeenth-century night clocks, from an unidentified publication.
File of loose cuttings and pages from illustrated magazines, journals, bulletins and auction catalogues. Includes photographs.
Bound photocopy of an HMSO publication, subtitled "comprising determination and division of time, dialling, clocks, watches and other time-keepers". Includes a circular from The Patent Office Library about its transfer to the British Library.
Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.
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.
Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.
A black comedy directed by Sam Walters, performed at The Orange Tree Theatre (Richmond, Surrey) and Stephen Joseph Theatre (Scarborough) in March–May 2001.
Includes press cuttings, event tickets, postcards, advertisements, business cards, stickers, wrappers, receipts etc.
Complete series of 25 cards, duplicates of those in the album.
41 postcards, mostly blank, some with greetings addressed to Rita Shenton and E. J. Tyler. Also includes one colour slide of Overdrawn at the Bank, a painting by Charles Spencelayh.
This collection comprises over 2,000 framed 35mm colour slides with images of clock dials made mainly but not exclusively by Birmingham makers, taken by Frances Tennant. It also includes four boxes of index cards compiled by her, which were the original finding aids and which have been used in the compilation of this catalogue. The occasionally quirky descriptions of the dials are Frances Tennant's own.
Sans titreMain dial: blue/grey moss roses, top corners with small blue flowers, strawberries bottom. Gilded gesso framing. Strike/silent in breakarch. Two ovals with Plato and Socrates in breakarch, gilded winding holes.
Main dial: blue/grey moss roses, top corners with small blue flowers, strawberries bottom, gilded gesso framing, strike/silent in breakarch, two ovals with Plato and Socrates in breakarch, gilded winding holes.
Main dial: flowery gesso corners, bunches of flowers in breakarch, painted fierce bird and sun in breakarch.
Main dial: flowery gesso corners, bunches of flowers in breakarch, painted fierce bird and sun in breakarch.
Main dial: flowery gesso corners, bunches of flowers in breakarch, painted fierce bird and sun in breakarch.
Main dial: blue/white profiles of Plato and Socrates in breakarch, small strawberries and roses with blue flowers.
Main dial: off-white, dianthus, blue flowers in corners, blue-toned roses in breakarch, decorated gold winding holes.
Main dial: cream breakarch, similar to very early dials, gesso work, pink ovals, corners floral in breakarch. Nice work.
Main dial: cream, very fancy gesso corners, gesso in arch of moon. Hemispheres: maps, transfers, unique.
Moon faces: slightly pop-eyed. Moon scenes: landscape and ship at sea (moon had been repainted or 'touched up' because of paint loss; paint too thick).
Main dial: blue/grey, gesso corners, oval pattern, two birds in centre of dial. Hemispheres: narrow, North America, ecliptic above equator.
Main dial: blue/grey, roses in corners, gesso ovals set widthways, flat gold scrolling in corners, two long-necked birds in centre, roses with some blue petals. Hemispheres: curious maps, North America, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: dotted oval and spandrel-type corners, fancy gesso breakarch, grommets used in winding holes.
Main dial: dotted oval and spandrel-type corners, fancy gesso breakarch, grommets used in winding holes.
Main dial: off-white birds in corners, gesso-framed birds in centre (but none are the earlier type of long-necked birds).
Two Osborne breakarch dials together. Main dial left: roses and anemones, corners with gesso framing, bird with roses? in breakarch. Main dial right: gesso with long oval in corners, urn gesso in breakarch.
Moon faces: squinty eyes. Moon scenes: landscape with figures, unusual angel with trumpet on medium blue sky.
Main dial: blue/grey, very dark blue ovals in corners with gesso. Hemispheres: North America, with ecliptic above equator.
Main dial: blue/grey, all transfer print, breakarch with crowing cockerel in oval, elaborate swags, two profiles lower down of Plato and Socrates? (see 1069 and 1076).
Main dial: gesso corners with coloured ovals, fine painted hunting scene in breakarch, framed with gesso, gilded winding holes.
Main dial: blue-petalled roses and ranunculus, corners framed with dot gesso, gold leaf shells in breakarch corners. Automata has coastal scene with ship missing (ship taken from Wilson).
Main dial: blue/grey, anemone and roses corners, bird centre with flowers.
Moon faces: squinty eyes. Moon scenes: landscape; ship at sea, very slanting waves.
Main dial: roses with touches of gold corners, gesso-framed pink decorated swags around winding holes, garlands under date, fully painted scene.
Moon faces: pale, slightly squinty-faced. Moon scenes: cottage on mill with two figures; good ship at sea with very white sails and blue and white pennant.
Main dial: slightly blue/grey, breakarch with bird in gesso oval, morning glory and pansy corners.
Main dial: blue/grey, thick-necked long-tailed birds centre.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1969), pp. 93–95.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (June 1970), pp. 108–111.
Original article from Antique Collector (October 1954), pp. 190–192.
Original article about eighteenth–century scientific instruments for measuring, surveying, navigation and time telling from Antique Collector (April 1980), pp. 77–79. Alo includes pp. 75–76.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1958), pp. 42–44.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1960), pp. 25–27.
Original article from Antique Collector (February 1980), pp. 62–64.
Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1936), pp. 129–133.
Original page 4 from Modern Times (24 February 1992). Subtitled "Charles Bremner meets the author [Allen Kurzweil] of a first novel about a [fictional] maker of erotic watches to discover his unusual inspiration".
Original article about fine English furniture collection from Antique Collector (June 1986), pp. 90–97.
Original article from Antique Collector (April 1959), pp. 55–60.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "C".
Original articles from Antique Collecting, vol. 11 no. 4 (August 1976), pp. 36–39.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 12 (February 1977), pp. 57–60.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 2 (June 1978), pp. 58–59.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 14 (July 1979), pp. 87–88.
Original article from Art and Antiques Weekly, vol. 10 no. 9 (June 1973), p. 17–19. Includes issue cover.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1984), pp. 35–37.
Original article about a collection of French furniture, ormolu-mounted porcelain and gilt-bronzes sold at in Monte Carlo on 20 June 1992, from Christie's International Magazine, vol. 8 no. 12 (May/June 1992), pp. 12–13.
Original article from Apollo (May 1968), pp. 363–379.
Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur (September 1910 and January 1911), pp. 31–36 and 27–33 respectively.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1922), pp. 217–221.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (April 1955), pp. 63–68.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (October 1955), pp. 37–44.
Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (June 1956), pp. 41–48.
Original articles about calendars and eclipses from the Education Supplement of The Guardian (9 July 1991).
Original article from Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques (October 1990), pp. 226–237. Includes issue cover.
Original article about the Ilbert Collection from Country Life (28 August 1958), pp. 404–405.
Original article from The Connoisseur (1902), pp. 191–193.
Original article from Antique Finder (April 1973), pp. 61–31.
Original article from Antique Collecting (February 1978), pp. 20–23.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 146–149. Annotated '91.A'.
Original article about Christiaan Huygens, from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 376–382. Annotated '82'.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (March/April 1947), pp. 82–89. Annotated '80'. Also includes "L'année chronométrique à l'Observatoire de Neuchâtel" by E. Guyot on p. 90.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 129–131. Annotated '80'.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 283–286. Annotated '81'.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 158 no. 635 (January 1965), pp. 3–9.
Original article from Amateur Work Illustrated (n.d.), pp. 131–135.
Original articles from Antiques Bulletin no. 459 (18 April–1 May 1992), pp. 39 and 45–47.
Original article from Antiques Bulletin no. 498 (27 February–5 March 1993), pp. 45–47.
The subseries contains articles written by authors with surnames beginning with "F".
Original article from Antique Collector (June 1978), pp. 101–102.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 39 no. 3 (October 1985), pp. 90–92. Also includes Round the dealers, a selection of clocks from dealers' showrooms.
Original article about the evolution of mystery clocks from Art & Antiques Weekly (26 January 1980), pp. 19–22. Also includes horological dealers' directory and issue cover.
Original article from Antique Collecting (February 1992), pp. 24–26.
Photocopy of an article from The Connoisseur (April 1926), pp. 220–222.
Original article from The Connoisseur (February 1969), pp. 76–83.
Original article about the late seventeenth-century London clockmakers and their bracket clocks, from The Antique Collector (April 1991), pp. 77–80. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.
Original article from Old Furniture, vol. 19 (Decemeber 1928), pp. 231–235.
Two copies of the original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1976), pp. 92–94. Includes issue covers.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 327–337. Annotated '80'.
Original articles from La Suisse Horlogère (August 1954), pp. 39–50.