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

A fine and small ebony-veneered timepiece with pull quarter repeat by this well-known maker.

A very fine, early eighteenth-century bracket clock in a case of Kingwood and with verge escapement, quarter repeat and alarm.

A fine walnut bracket clock with inverted bell-top case, arched brass dial, hour strike with pull repeat and strike/silent by this celebrated maker.

A fine, small ebonised bracket clock with brass mounts and enamel dials and with replacement wall bracket.

An extremely elegant satinwood balloon bracket clock quarter chiming on eight bells.

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

A fine, ebony-veneered bracket clock retaining all the original case mounts and with verge movement, quarter repeating on three bells.

A fine, ebony veneered bracket clock retaining all the original case mounts and with verge movement, quarter repeating on three bells.

A good bell-top bracket clock in a finely-proportioned mahogany case.

A very good mahogany chamfer-top bracket clock with numbered movement and case.

A fine Regency rosewood chamfer-top bracket clock with good brass ornamentation and complete with replacement wall bracket.

A fine and small Regency rosewood bracket clock with hour strike and repeat.

A Regency mahogany chamfer-top bracket clock of the finest quality.

A particularly small and elegant Regency bracket clock in a well-proportioned rosewood case.

A good, mahogany, bell-top bracket clock.

A fine and small, ebony veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, baster top case

A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, basket-top case.

A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with verge escapement, pull quarters on four bells and pierced, basket-top case.

An arch-top, mahogany bracket clock by this good maker.

A fine and small ebony-veneered bracket clock with arch dial subsidiaries for date, strike/silent and rise and fall regulation and with verge escapement and pull quarter repeat on six bells.

An exceedingly fine mahogany bell-top bracket clock with three-train fusee movement striking the quarters on eight bells.

A fine and unusually small, satinwood, balloon bracket clock in exceptional condition.

A fine mahogany bracket clock with verge escapement.

A fine mahogany bracket clock with verge escapement.

A fine and small ebonied bracket clock by this celebrated maker.

A finely proportioned , brass-inlaid, rosewood bracket clock complete with replacement wall bracket.

A fine, ebony veneered striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat on three bells.

A very fine musical and automaton bracket clock in a case veneered with tortoiseshell and profusely mounted with ormolu by this master of the Clockmakers' Company.

A good, early nineteenth-century mahogany bracket clock with chamfer top and matching wall bracket.

A very fine and small arched-top bracket clock with enamel dial and subsidiary dials, alarm and silent pallets.

A good bell-top bracket clock veneered with mahogany and with arched brass dial and verge escapement.

A very good and small mahogany bracket clock in an arched-top case with fine brass mounts.

A very good mahogany, bell-top bracket clock with enamel dials, verge escapement and original mounts throughout.

A fine and well-proportioned ebony-veneered bracket clock with quarter repeat on six bells.

A good, small ebonised bracket clock with brass inlay, 7-inch white dial and pull hour repeat.

A very fine red lacquer bracket clock.

A very fine bell-top bracket veneered with mahogany, with four-tune musical movement and automata.

A small rosewood bracket clock

A good mahogany bell-top bracket clock with three-train verge movement quarter striking on eight bells and with two subsidiary dials.

A very fine and rare George III bracket clock by one of the most eminent clockmaking partnerships.

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

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

A fine Regency rosewood bracket clock in a chamfer top case and with replacement wall bracket.

A good Regency mahogany bracket clock with rise and fall regulation and strike/silent.

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

A mahogany bell-top bracket clock with centre carrying handle and arched brass dial with moon dial.

A good mahogany bracket clock with its original wall bracket.

A fine, large bracket clock decorated with chinoiserie on a red ground and with arched brass dial with two subsidiary dials.

A rare bracket clock in a bell-top case decorated with chinoiserie on a red ground.

A fine and very small ebonised bracket clock with three pads and brass mounts by a well-known maker.

A bell-top mahogany bracket clock of good proportions and colour.

A good mahogany bell-top bracket clock, signed on dial and backplate.

An unusually small, finely proportioned mahogany bell-top bracket clock, striking the quarters on eight bells.

A fine and very small, ebony-veneered timepiece with passing strike.

A verge bracket clock in a small, bell-top case decorated with chinoiserie on a finely faded, red ground.

A very fine, brass-mounted, ebonised, inverted bell-top bracket clock.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 16 no. 3 (July/August 1981), p. 29.

Original binder label says "August 1993", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 25 October 1993.

Original binder label says "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 21 July 1979.

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.

Includes letter, photographic service receipts, and one photograph.

Original article about Smiths Clocks and Watches Ltd, from The Engineer (1 June 1956), pp. 606–607.

Printed. Cassette not included. Issued to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' charter.

3 b/w photographs. File also includes a typescript cover letter from Jennifer Blain of Strike One Limited.

The museum, famous for its windmills, also includes a time-piece exhibition. The file also contains a handwritten note with "copy of instructions from Clock no. 1".

4 b/w photographs.

This collection comprises mostly wristwatch trade literature sent to and collected by Grahame Brooks over an approximately ten-year period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It includes press releases, product brochures, photographs, slides and CD-Roms, as well as some correspondence.

One colour photograph, showing general view of the exhibition and the Rita Shenton Books stall.

This collection comprises Eric Bunt’s handwritten notes on watch and clockmakers from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, compiled from original documents held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, and from printed volumes of Calendars of State Papers; handwritten transcripts of eighteenth-century newspaper articles about watch and clock thefts; and Eileen’s Bunt handwritten transcript of Benjamin Gray’s Daybook (original at the Guildhall Library, London).

Images of dials made by Burgess Hartley, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1810s and 1820s.

This collection comprises correspondence and other papers created and collected by Martin Burgess during his clockmaking career, including notes, drawings and photographs relating to his Gurney, Schroder and other clocks. It also includes his recollections of his time at Gresham’s School, and film rolls and papers relating to Clockmaker, a documentary on Burgess, directed and produced by Richard Gayer in 1971.

Original article from Antique Collecting (April 1998), pp. 8–12.

Original article from Antique Collector (June 1978), pp. 101–102.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide Supplement (October 1988), pp. 30–31.

Original article from Antique Finder (April 1973), pp. 61–31.

Original articles from Art & Antiques Weekly (9–15 January 1981), pp. 23–25 and 26–27. Also includes issue cover.

Typewritten and handwritten. Includes notes on the Mayan calendar with related correspondence with the Legation of Guatemala; notes on the calculation of the birth of Jesus, notes on the months, the calendars of Kalasasaya, Egypt, the Muslim and Jewish calendars, and perpetual calendar; a draft copy of Chapter 1 of "Once Upon a Time", and The Sunday Express article on "When 11 days vanished from the calendar" (31 December 1961).

Typescript and printed. Also includes 3 b/w photographs.

Original article about Canadian furniture of the Georgian era, from The Antique Collector (January 1986), pp. 88–93.

Original lecture in three parts from the Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. 29 (July 1881), pp. 663–671, 673–698 and 701–726.

Original article about London-made longcase clocks, from The Antique Collector (August 1981), pp. 52–55.

Photocopy of an article from Wireless World (January 1982), pp. 74–78.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 24 no. 7 (December 1989), p. 18.

An exceptionally fine English carriage clock by this noted maker, complete with original winding key and travelling box.

A good small carriage clock in an engraved gorge case with engraved and shuttered door and engraved dial mask.

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

A very fine gorge-cased carriage clock with five porcelain panels.

A fine carriage clock in gilt corniche case repeating on a bell.

A petite sonnerie carriage clock by this great maker, in an engraved case of the highest quality.

A grande sonnerie carriage clock by this noted maker in an engraved case of the highest quality.