Main dial: blue-grey.
Main dial: off-white, fan corners with gold. Very bright small birds in centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, anemone and rose corners, gesso-framed two birds in centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, anemone and rose corners, gesso-framed two birds in centre. False plate: cast iron.
Complete series of 25 cards, duplicates of those in the album.
Album containing the complete series of 25 cards. Purchased from The Good Olde Days shop in Brighton. Also includes a letter from the seller, a photocopy of "An Unusual Collection", an article about the cigarette cards published in Antique Clocks vol. 11 no. 10 (March 1989), and of a press cutting about books on sundials.
Incomplete set, 13 of 25 cards only. Also includes Llewellin's Machine Co. Ltd card, with drawings of watches, time stamps and autograph recorders.
Main dial: gesso-framed moss roses and honeysuckle corners; square date apperture. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: vetch gesso-framed corners, motto on breakarch "Ext Vista Hominis". Hemispheres: maps, North America, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron. Moon faces: round-eyed, sweet. Moon scenes: ship at sea; church in landscape.
Main dial: gesso-framed vetch and cherries corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: graphics redone very badly, nice dial, would restore well. Ship in oval a replacement.
Main dial: strawberries gesso-framed corners; bird in breakarch with painted scrolling. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: gesso corners; breakarch transfer print of ship, coloured and decorated.
Main dial: pale blue ovals in corners, gesso surround, fly near seconds. Note: chip underneath. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: poor gesso, scene in oval-round breakarch; strawberry corners, four long feet. Poor condition.
Original article about watchmaking precision and automation from The Engineer (18 June 1981), pp. 35–39.
Includes correspondence, copies of watch databases, transcripts and copies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspapers, photocopies of journal articles, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.
Includes correspondence, copies of eighteenth-century newspapers, newspaper articles, sales brochures, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, and photographs.
9 b/w captioned photographs and 4 postcards. Also includes handwritten notes.
Images of dials made by Wright & Company, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1800s–1820s.
Main dial: off-white four-seasons corners; gold band outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic above equator.
Moon faces: pensive, tiny mouth. Moon scenes: ship at sea; landscape with tall half-timbered house.
Main dial: off white, very plain, no decoration. Superb quality.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off-white, morning glory in scroll and lattice corners with gold; Arts and Trade in breakarch. Good painting.
Main dial: off-white, convolvulous corners with primulas; farm scene breakarch.
Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 23 no. 3 (July/August 1988), pp. 53–54.
4 b/w photographs, captioned in English. File also includes a typescript letter from the museum director and a seemingly unrelated postcard, written in French, from Musee du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris.
Original article about an 18th–century long–case clock from Hazlemere from Collect (June 2002), p. 43.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1978), pp. 84–85.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1975), pp. 116–117.
Includes typewritten letter, a newspaper cutting with an article on the restoration of the tower, its English translations (handwritten and typed), and a photograph.