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Handwritten. Lectures given by Dr Ward at Chester on 28 September 1979, Cardiff in November 1979 and Leicester on 4 December 1981.

Original pages extracted from The Horological Journal (1910-26) and photocopy from The Jeweller and Metalworker (1894). Also includes notes about Watch and Clock Makers' Pension Society and the Clockmakers' Company (1910) and statistics for exports of clocks and watches in 1926.

A mahogany, banjo, clock barometer of the highest quality.

A very fine and large mahogany banjo clock barometer.

Original article about Ocborne Clocks company from Essex, from Buying Antiques, vol. 1 no. 10 (October 1973), pp. 383–384.

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 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.

41 pages. Includes various clocks (Hampton Court, Berkeley Castle, Houses of Parliament); George Honeybone; Salisbury Cathedral clock; various clocks of Britain, Prague, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France; curiosities; two well-known Danish clocks; bracket clocks; long case clocks; eighteenth-century clocks; Greenwich mean time; atomic clock; Honeybone clock; miscellaneous clocks; history of Big Ben, etc.

40 pages. Includes clocks of Scotland; smallest watches; "Negress clock"; astronomical clock of Versailles; Salisbury Cathedral clock; the oldest clock in Paris; clocks of Germany, Holland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Malta, Denmark, Spain and Venice; summer time; clocks of York; Big Ben; concave dial clock at Bristol; grandfather clocks; brochure about the Peace Tower carillon in Ottawa; seventeenth-century clockmakers; Captain Scott's watch; watches in the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers collection; Strasbourg Cathedral clock; clock collection of Mr Hutton-Stott; grandfather clocks; detailed description of the Broadgate "Godiva clock" in Coventry (with original drawings); floral clocks; Lund Cathedral clock, Sweden; Honeybone clocks, etc.

41 pages. Includes royal palace clocks; clocks of Salzburg, Loches and Milan; the Christ (or the Twelve Apostles) clock at Goslar, Germany; clocks around the world (Ceylon, the USA, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Poland) and Britain; Michael Bateman's article on "Timing the Future"; watch exhibition at the Hague; Big Ben; Wells Cathedral clock; Timex Time through the ages brochure; tower clocks; notes on curious types of clocks (shadow clock, clock jacks, silent clock, Act of Parliament clock, water clock, sundial stained glass window); Alex Lloyd's article on collecting old clocks; Salisbury Cathedral clock; sundials; Jens Olsen's clock; clocks at the Nottingham Antiques Exhibition; clocks of Rothenburg and Nuremburg, etc.

37 pages. Includes address on "Our Ancestors' Clocks and Watches" by M.F. Frederiksen; astronomical clock on Strasburg Cathedral; "Pendulum to Atom" booklet for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute at Goldsmiths' Hall; "Collecting old Watches" by Cecil Clutton; Conquete du Temps (booklet presented to visitors of the Swiss Pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition 1958); "Time in Broadcasting' (BBC Booklet produced for the centenary exhibition of the British Horological Institute); Burgos Cathedral clock, Spain; clocks of Southwark and Clerkenwell; Zimmer Tower astronomical clock at Lierre, Belgium; flower clocks; British horologists; atomic clock; clocks of Bornholm; Buenos Aires "Big Ben" clock; world's largest electric clock; work of summer time clock changers; English ormolu mounts; Black Forest cuckoo clocks; Big Ben centenary; broadcast of "Ancient clocks of the West of England"; clocks of Germany and Switzerland; Kravchenko's Sputnik Clock; English church clocks; music scores for "My Grandfather's Clock" by Henry C. Work and "Song of the Clock" by Rex Burchell; early English watches, etc.

41 pages. Includes Honeybone clock at Bristol; clock collection at Belper; "From Clock-watch to Wrist Watch" and "The Rare Grandmother Clock”, articles from Country Life Annual 1955; "Sixteenth century and earlier public clocks" list by G. H. Baillie; clocks of Denmark, Holland and Germany; clocks of Coventry and Winchester; auction sale of Tompion long case clock; "A clock to time the Earth", an article on John Harrison by Alben Philips; floral clocks; copy will of Thomas Honeybone; extract from Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey; Jens Olsen's world clock brochure; Guinness Festival Clock; Westminster Abbey clock overhaul; The Musselburgh Tolboth clock; Ilbert horological collection; the world' first astronomical clock at the Science Museum; extract from The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

37 pages. Includes candle-lighting clock; "The story of the British watch and clock industry"; Mr Vine's matchstick clock; "Clocks", an article by Sheila Richardson about clocks of Nuremburg, Prague, Strasbourg and Lund; Kienzle watch museum brochure (in German); article on Stanley Humphrey's maintenance of government clocks; the Birdcage Clock; long case clocks; Winchester Empire Clock; John E. Ginson's article on the passing of time; Big Ben; Mr and Mrs Bromley's clock collection at Belper; American clocks; new battery-driven clocks; radiation risk of luminous dials; Crucifix Clock, etc.

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 short history of clocks; floral clocks; Player's Cigarettes cards featuring clocks and other timekeeping devices, with notes; types of devices used for the measurement of time (list with descriptions); "Look and Learn" feature on timekeeping; Breguet watches; Phoenix clock at Westbury; Gamle Ure brochure from the clock museum on Denmark; Chinese clockmaking industry; timing the Olympics [Winter Olympics, Innsbruck]; clock towers of France; "Early provincial clockmakers" by J.K. Bellchambers; The Science Museum Timekeepers booklet; Ferenc Magyar clock and watch collection in Budapest; clock designed for lunar explorers; The Wuppertal clock museum, etc.

These albums contain images of clocks which went through the business, together with typed "descriptive tickets", i.e. one-page detailed descriptions of the clocks and their cases, dials and movements, prices, as well as biographical notes about the makers and references to published sources. Some clock photographs are included without the descriptive tickets, and conversely, some descriptive tickets do not have accompanying photographs, which are often annotated as having been lent to various individuals or institutions.

These are loose photographs and descriptions, originally inserted in volume STR/02/017.

This volume also includes a New Year's greeting card with family photograph from "Karyn, Bill and Harrison Frist".

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

Vienna regulators in this file are mostly duplicates of those listed in files STR/02/001-018, although included are also some photographs of other, often unlabelled Vienna regulators.

This collection comprises Philip Thornton’s reports, notes, sketches and tracings which document the repairs and restorations of mainly bracket clocks, carried out by him primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, with a few later instances. Most papers record the date of restoration and the name of the client. The files vary in size and content from single pieces of scrap paper to more comprehensive bundles containing condition reports and detailed large-format drawings. Many of the papers are in very fragile condition.

Gives customer's name, type of clock, work carried out, price, and in a few cases date. Also includes loose notes.

These clock files, arranged by clock type, contain one-page descriptions of the clocks and their cases, dials and movements, prices, as well as biographical notes about the makers and references to published sources. They are copies of the descriptive tickets included in the photograph series STR/02, but here they are arranged by clock type and annotated with sale details (invoice number, date and price).

A small and elegant rosewood timepiece by a local maker.

An elegantly proportioned and finely figured rosewood four-glass clock.

A good, small, inlaid mahogany timepiece.

A small William IV rosewood library timepiece with engraved silvered dial and fusee movement, the case with recessed brass carrying handle and adjustable bun feet.

A very fine, gilded drum timepiece.

Original article from La Suisse Horlogère (August 1954), pp. 5–10.

[An unusual clock in an engraved oval case.]

Original article from Antiques Bulletin no. 498 (27 February–5 March 1993), pp. 45–47.

Original article about Sir William Congreve, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1987), pp. 52–54.

Photocopy of an article from Country Life (12 June 1969), pp. 1528–1535.

This series contains files of correspondence and cutouts from catalogues, newspapers, journals and other publications, relating to the work of individual clockmakers and engravers.

Gives clockmakers' names and dates, slide numbers, and brief description of dials

Makers' surnames include: Adamson, Aske, Barnett, Bennett, Beyer, Boyce, Bradford, Buckenhill. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.

Makers' surnames include: Cattell, Chambers, Constantin, Constantine, Cooley, Cotsworth, Creed, Crouch, Cuff. The file contains correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.

Makers' surnames include: Dent, Edlin / Edlyne, Finch, Gardner, Gerrard, Gordon. The file contains correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.

Makers' surnames include: Halstead, Halsted, Harris, Harrys, Harvey, Haughtin, Hodgkin, Holloway, Huddleston, Hudson. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.

Makers' surnames include: Jacques, Jeffs, King / De King, Lindsay, Long, Martin, Merriman, Merryman, Newborough, Newbrough, Northcote, Paine, Parker, Rasher, Reith, Robinson. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.

Makers' surnames include: Seignior, Sharpe, Smith, Sully, Tolley, Vick. The file contains correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.

These notebooks contain definitions, descriptions, notes and comments on various types and examples of clocks, movements, technical matters etc., with diagrams. Written in neat, almost calligraphic handwriting in black and red ink, they may have initially been compiled as part of a clockmaker's training, as some paragraphs in notebook no. 1 are marked 'very good'. They are captioned 'H. Draisey Esq., clockmaker, 216 Bath Road, Bristol'

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (March 1955), pp. 32–34.

Original article from Antique Collector (August 1973), pp. 201–206.

Original articles from Antique Collecting (February 1992), pp. 28–31 and 32–35. Also includes antique clock dealers' directory.

Unnumbered and unpaginated. Topics include various striking movements and g.f. clock trains. Also includes loose notes with prices of clock repairs. With diagrams,

Unnumbered and unpaginated. Topics include turret striking movements, g.f. clock trains, church clock dials and hands, prices of turret repairs, etc. Also includes loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

107 double-sided pages. Topics include: cosmography and horology, brief history of timepieces and clocks, and descriptions of clepsydra, verges, different types of escapements, wheels and pinions, laws governing the pendulum, etc. With diagrams.

66 double-sided pages. Topics include: balance / hair spring, balance staff, remontoire movement, music as applied to horology, the best bells to use when fitting chime clock's hammers, accepting orders for large turret clocks, carillions, pendulum lengths, silvering clock dials, recipe for cleaning solution, sidereal and solar days, meridian dial, early clocks, etc. Also includes loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

140 pages. Topics include: early clocks, pendulum springs, pendulum regulation, compensation of pendulums, heaviest pendulums, wooden rods, mercurial compensation, half-dead escapement, pin wheel escapement, pin pallets, the four-legged escapement, the double three-legged escapement, electrical clocks, tell-tale clocks, church / turret clocks, etc. With diagrams.

121 pages. Topics include: turret clocks, new chime machinery (by Gillett & Bland and Lund & Blockley), clock hammers, public clock specifications, train remontoires, bells, etc. Also includes a list of great belles pasted in at the end, and loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

120 pages. Topics include: bells, composition of bell metal, tolling levers, bell ropes, Ellacombe's chiming hammers, stays and sliders,gudgeons, iron stocks and frames, clappering, bell towers, etc. With diagrams.

108 pages. Topics include: quarter chime movement, recoil escapement, watch and clock trains, weights and sizes of bells of St Philip's and St Jacob's church in Bristol, pendulum bobs, metals, turret clocks done by H. Draisey, compensated balance, dead-beat escapement, pinor jewel pallets, Americal pallets, hour and quarter chime snails, rack work, turret clock dial work, the Universe, the Solar System, the Year, turret clocks locking plate. warning and stop work, electric clocks balance type, the gravity escapement, enameled iron dials, hard soldering, electric gilding, batteries, dial clock train, recipe for French polish, the Wells Clock, the Big Ben, etc. With diagrams.

Original article from The World of Antiques no. 2 (Autumn 1989), pp. 32–33.

Original article from the Clocks issue of Maxwell's Pictorial Knowledge, vol. 2 no. 3 (1969), pp. 428–436. Also includes "How to make a sundial".

Typescript photocopy. Two copies.

Includes three photographs of the Dondi Clock and article from Horological Journal (June 1961), and a brochure titles Globes and Spheres by H. von Bertele.

6 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope captioned "Blair photos".

Includes clocks from Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, Horniman Museum, Bethnal Green Museum, James Cox Musical Clock, the Bridges Clock, Helleicher's Singing Clock, the Thomas Dallam Organ, etc. 12 photographs.

Original article about the clock market from Antique Collecting, vol. 24 no. 3 (July/August 1989), p. 9.

Original article from The Connoisseur (April 1935), pp. 213–217.

Includes nine photographs, two postcards, one printed drawing and two negatives of clocks from Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle; Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris; a sixteenth-century automatic clock in the shape of a ship from a private collection, and some of unidentified origin.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1977), pp. 79–81.

1 b/w photograph and 1 colour postcard. Also includes Dr Moore's letter to Musée du Château de Blois, with request for a photographic copy of another painting (photo not included).

Original article in two parts from The Connoisseur, vol. 168 (June/July 1968), pp. 72–81 and 149–157. Also includes "Jean Petitot and Jacques Bordier at the English court", pp. 82–91.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1950), pp. 22–24.

Original article from Art & Antiques Weekly (19–25 September 1980), pp. 20–23.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1981), pp. 60–62.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1954), pp. 17–19.

Includes over 25 photographs and photographic postcards and six articles on chiming clocks, Thomas Tompion clocks, curious clocks, "Pendulum to Atom" exhibition, and a number of other individual clocks.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1958), pp. 29–31.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (July 1974), pp. 70–74.

Original article about 30-hour cottage longcases from Antiques and Art Monitor (17–23 February 1979), pp. 14–17.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1964), pp. 36–38.

Original section of 56 pages from Antique Collector (April 1982), containing dealers' advertisements and articles, including "From time to time" by Andrew King, "The marine chronometer" by F. A. Mercer, and "Mercurial barometer" by Nigel Coleman.

Original article about collectible illustrations from antiquarian books, from Antique Collecting (February 1978), pp. 26–29. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages.

Two copies of the original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1976), pp. 92–94. Includes issue covers.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide, vol. 5 no. 4 (August 1970), pp. 4–9.