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A very rare and finely decorated tavern timepiece in a lacquered case of a unique banjo style.

A fine and rare "rooftop" Vienna timepiece with one-piece enamel dial.

A very rare oak longcase with arched top case in the manner of Holmes and Dutton and with finely proportioned brass dial.

A fine walnut longcase clock by this Master of the Clockmakers Company.

Ebony-veneered bracket clock with pierced bracket top, verge escapement and quarter repeating on five bells and with strike-silent.

A fine, engraved oval carriage clock with original gilding to the case and repeat strike on a bell, by this noted maker.

A fine and small two-day marine chronometer by this well-known maker.

A fine and rare miniature ship's bulkhead timepiece by these well-known makers.

A fine gilded carriage clock with petite sonnerie strike on bells, calendar and alarm.

A mahogany longcase with finely-painted arched dial with automata and a case of the best London quality.

A fine and small regulator by this ingenious maker.

An exceptionally fine mahogany trunk dial [clock] with 14-inch engraved brass dial by these noted makers.

An exceptionally fine mahogany musical bracket clock playing twelve tunes by this eminent maker.

A fine, small ebony veneered bracket timepiece with pull quarter repeat on two bells of about 1695.

Engraved carriage clock, quarter strike on bells.

A very fine mahogany trunk dial by this master of the Company with the rare feature of a "detached" dial.

A fine and very small mahogany longcase clock with round, silvered brass dial.

A longcase clock with moonwork and centre seconds in a pagoda-top case with chinoiserie decoration on a finely faded, brick-red ground.

An extremely rare, late seventeenth-century lantern clock with anchor escapement, two hands and in its original, highly distinctive oak tall case.

A very fine and extremely rare angle barometer with perpetual regulation of time by this leading instrument maker.

A fine, mahogany rooftop regulator with the rare feature of a one-piece silvered dial and movement of one-month duration.

A good, rosewood, four-glass clock with hour and 1/2 hour strike and platform lever escapement.

A fine eight-day chronometer by this celebrated maker.

A fine four-piece mahogany wheel barometer with 12-inch dial.

A fine and small rosewood Regency bracket clock with the rare feature of ting-tang quarter striking and complete with wall bracket.

A fine two-day marine chronometer by this excellent maker.

A very fine longcase clock with chinoiserie decoration on a green ground, all in an excellent state of preservation and with dial movement of matching quality.

A very fine and well-proportioned "Dachluhr" or rooftop timepiece in a strung, mahogany case.

A very fine and rare mahogany tavern timepiece by this well-known maker.

A very fine Arabesque skeleton timepiece by this well-known maker.

A very fine and small hooded wall clock in a mahogany case and with arched brass dial, weight-driven verge movement and hour strike.

A very rare, shield-dial tavern clock in an exceptional state of preservation.

A fine London mahogany longcase of good colour and proportions and with a superbly engraved dial.

A very fine lantern clock of early Third Period with rare features in the striking mechanism, all in an exceptional state of preservation and by a master of the Clockmakers' Company.

A small and well-proportioned mahogany longcase clock with arched brass dial with moon and movement of the best London quality.

A small, fine and exceedingly rare tavern clock with round white dial and banjo or teardrop case decorated with chinoiserie.

A very well-proportioned, 11 1/2- inch, four-piece satinwood wheel barometer.

A rare, early nineteenth-century English dial timepiece with 12-inch wood dial.

A fine and large mid-seventeenth century lantern clock, reconverted to balance wheel but otherwise in untouched original condition, well documented and illustrated in English Lantern Clocks

A very finely preserved mid-eighteenth-century longcase clock decorated with chinoiserie on a deep green ground.

A good Regency bracket clock in a chamfer-top rosewood case.

A fine provincial Lantern clock with anchor escapement, all in an excellent state of preservation.

A very rare and finely decorated tavern timepiece in a lacquered case of a unique banjo style.

A fine and elegant oak longcase clock having an 11-inch brass arched dial with exceedingly rare configuration, by this talented provincial maker.

A fine and small Channel Islands longcase clock in a well-figured mahogany case with brass dial and with hour and half-hour strike.

A very fine, inlaid, flat-front mahogany stick barometer.

A small and rare ebonised bracket timepiece with silent pallet verge escapement, alarm and passing strike.

An exceptionally fine mahogany stick barometer by this noted maker.

A very fine bow-front mahogany stick barometer with numerous rare features.

A mahogany arch top bracket clock by this noted maker. The image also shows a similar bracket clock signed "J. Thwaites"

A fine English dial timepiece with 13-inch silvered dial and verge escapement.

A rare striking trunk dial with convex wood dial.

A rare mahogany tavern or Act of Parliament timepiece.

A very fine and small mahogany longcase clock in the manner of Vulliamy.

A Scottish longcase clock in a mahogany case of fine quality.

A small, classic Channel Islands longcase clock.

A fine and early trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial and signed movement.

A very fine chisel-foot mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this famous maker.

A very fine and rare oak longcase clock by this talented maker.

An eighteenth-century longcase clock profusely decorated with chinoiserie.

A mahogany angle barometer.

A very fine red lacquer longcase clock by this great maker.

A very fine, engraved, gorge-cased carriage clock with petite sonnerie strike on bells.

A fine, large mahogany tavern timepiece by this Master of the Clockmakers' Company.

An exceptionally fine, engraved gorge-cased carriage clock with grande sonnerie strike on bells and with subsidiary seconds dial.

A fine shield dial tavern timepiece in an exceptional state of preservation and illustrated and described ion both English Dial Clocks and Kent Clocks and Clockmakers.

A fine George III period mahogany and gilt-mounted quarter-striking musical bracket clock.

A most imposing, George III, quarter chiming bracket clock.

A magnificent, Queen Anne longcase clock of one-month duration.

A rare, very small Viennese Dachluhr timepiece regulator in a cherrywood case.

An engraved gorge-cased carriage clock of the finest quality with grande sonnerie strike on bells and with three subsidiary calendar apertures. The movement almost certainly the work of Henri Jacot.

An exceedingly rare mahogany tavern clock with silvered dial and hour striking movement.

A fine and unusually small, green lacquer longcase clock.

A very finely preserved and exceedingly rare mail coach timepiece with its original travelling case.

An exceedingly fine and rare striking mahogany trunk dial, the case signed and dated.

A fine bell-top bracket clock decorated with chinoiserie on a rich red ground, all in an excellent state of preservation.

An exceptionally fine angle barometer in the manner of and almost certainly made by the renowned Whitehurst family of Derby.

A fine and rare early English dial timepiece with verge escapement.

An exceptionally fine and possibly unique example of a mahogany trunk dial with 18 3/4 inch one-piece wood dial and hour striking movement.

Folder marked "4" but it is sixth in the chronological sequence.

This collection comprises business records of Strike One Limited, specialist dealers in antique clocks and other horological items, founded by Milo Mighell in 1968. They include stock/sales books, which list every item that went through the business; clock photograph albums, which contain an image of every clock, together with a typed description (a ‘descriptive ticket’); clock files arranged by clock type, with individual clock descriptions; as well as a handful of sales and exhibition catalogues and other publications with Milo Mighell’s contributions. The archive also contains an interview with Milo Mighell conducted by James Nye in 2024; although not created as part of Strike One’s business activities, it sheds valuable light at its and its founder’s history.

The unique stock numbers, which were assigned to each item at the time of purchase and appear across the collection for cross-referencing purposes, are made up of two parts separated by a full stop/point. Before the full point is the month and two digits for the year. After the full point there is an incremental number assigned to each new purchase. For example, stock number 868.123 indicates August 1968, purchase 123.

41 pages. Includes clocks quotations; famous clocks of the world; clocks of Berne, Switzerland; clocks of Italy; “My own town”, including Weston-super-Mare's floral clock; other floral clocks; The Festival of Britain clock; Somerset's Cathedral; Exeter's clocks; other clocks of interest; clocks of Denmark, including grandfather clocks and early clocks; clock legends of Hampton Court and Strasbourg; collectors, collections and quaint clocks; and dials ancient and modern. Pages 28 onwards comprise miscellaneous material on a variety of clock-related topics, including Gothic iron clock, long case clocks, other individual clocks, "The Old Clockmaker" article by Richard Church from Country Life (2 December 1949), and clockmaking events and exhibitions.

37 pages. Includes giant floral clock of Frankfort, Kentucky; astronomical clock at Strasbourg; article on mental clocks "So that's why women are always late..."; 30-hour Tompion clocks; water clocks; Geneva's new automatic clock; turret clock at Lockinge; 93-dial Wonder Clock at Washington Museum; Synchronome clock factory; Tompion clock in Bath Pump Room; Dover Castle clock; "Collecting Old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Edward East, watchmaker to Charles I; sixteenth to eighteenth century table clocks; "Clocks by Thomas Tompion in American Collections"; clocks of Austria, Holland and Germany; clocks of New Zealand, etc.

37 pages. Includes accidental demolition of Highbridge clock tower in a lorry crash; Weston's floral clock; "The world's first production line" article on Thomas Tompion; "Country ways of telling how time slips away" article by Kathleen Wiltshire; the Ilbert collection; the Great Clock of Prague; floral clock at Niagara Falls; "Timeless timepieces" article by Hilary Gelson, etc.

36 pages, latter half black. Includes the Wells clock; Benjamin Bowring; hymns by clockmaker James Odey; turret clocks; Stonehenge; clocks of wood, etc.

Original article about a pistol in possession of Sir David Lionel Golsmid-Stern-Salomons, a watch and clock collector, from The Connoisseur, vol. 125 no. 515 (March 1950), pp. 51–52. Pages also include short articles about other, non–horological collectibles.

Original article from Antique Collector (October 1954), pp. 190–192.