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This collection comprises records created and collected by Francis Wadsworth. It includes a large series of original articles by various authors on horological and related topics (cut out of publications, many of them were purchased from antiquarian book dealers), as well as sales and auction catalogues and advertisements for clocks, watches and clockmaking tools; instructions, manuals, and patents; reference publications; alphabetical files relating to clockmaking firms and factories; exhibition and museum brochures; correspondence; ephemera; and papers relating to Wadsworth’s work on the AHS Publication Committee. In addition to purely horological topics, it reflects Francis Wadsworth’s interest in scientific instruments, stately houses and antique furniture and porcelain.

Printed and typescript, some handwritten.

Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.

Photocopy typescript and handwritten. Also includes correspondence.

Images of dials made by W. H. Price, a Birmingham dial maker active around 1800.

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).

Original article from Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques (October 1990), pp. 226–237. Includes issue cover.

Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 29 (n.d.), pp. 688–692.

Also includes a catalogue of Dorset clocks and related correspondence.

Contains a list of all exhibits.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1983), pp. 58–59.

A very fine Viennese Laterndluhr with grande sonnerie striking.

Original binder label states the date as "May 1979", but the earliest sale in the file is dated 6 October 1979.

A grande sonnerie Vienna regulator of one month duration and of the highest quality.

Floor-standing Vienna regulator with grande sonnerie repeat.

grande sonnerie Vienna regulator.

An early Viennese regulator in a case exceptionally high quality and elegance and with grande sonnerie movement of 8 days duration.

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

A good Vienna timepiece in a mahogany case.

A very fine Vienna regulator timepiece in a tapered mahogany case with architectural pediment.

A fine, early "six-light" Vienna regulator timepiece with one-piece enamel dial in a strung mahogany 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 very rare, grande sonnerie Vienna regulator in a mahogany roof-top case.

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 fine grande sonnerie Vienna regulator by this well-known maker.

An elegant Vienna timepiece in a cherry wood case and with one-piece dial and cast "pie-crust" bezel.

A very fine and early Vienna timepiece with many interesting features.

A rosewood Vienna regulator timepiece of one month duration.

A fine, one-piece dial, Vienna regulator with timepiece movement of one month duration.

A good Vienna timepiece with one-piece dial in a fruitwood case.

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 regulator in a walnut case and with convex enamel dial.

A very fine and rare "rooftop" Vienna regulator timepiece in a six-light walnut case by these well-known makers.

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

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.

Original article from Practical Woodworking (November 1989), pp. 16–21.

A very fine and unusually small "Dachluhr" or rooftop timepiece in a strung mahogany case.

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

Original article from Antique Collecting (May 1976), pp. 10–14.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1980), pp. 47–50.

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.

A collection of four silver pair- and triple-cased verge watches in mint condition.

Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1914), pp. 157–160.

Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present

Also includes handwritten card.

Also includes price list and a fax message from Grahame Brooks to Caroline Kemp of Time Products regarding his article on the Geneva Seal.

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.

Includes letters, order forms, rules for ordering and sale of photographs, and two photographs.

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.

Also includes correspondence and photocopy promotional materials.

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.

Main dial: blue flowers corners; one bird centre. Difficult to date (lots of Wellses at Shipton). This slide has not been digitised.