A good regency trunk dial timepiece with convex wood dial.
A very good provincial example of a verge English dial [clock] with engraved brass dial.
A very fine chisel-foot mahogany trunk dial timepiece by this famous maker.
An early and very rare mahogany trunk dial with convex wood dial and hour striking movement.
A very fine trunk dial timepiece with fully signed and numbered movement by this celebrated maker.
An exceptionally fine and rare trunk dial timepiece by this celebrated maker.
Mahogany trunk dial timepiece with a silvered dial inscribed "Robing Room, Court of Chancery, Westminster, AD 1847".
A mahogany trunk dial timepiece of the finest quality by this renowned maker.
A very fine and rare late eighteenth-century trunk dial with hour striking movement and one-piece wood dial.
A good striking dial clock by these well-known makers, the movement signed, numbered and dated.
An exceedingly rare and probably unique English dial timepiece with superbly engraved silvered brass dial.
A very rare English dial clock with flat wood dial and hour striking verge movement.
An English dial timepiece with engraved silvered dial.
An early striking English dial clock with a silvered dial in a mahogany salt box case.
One card per dial. Set also includes some miscellaneous cards with notes. Each card gives dial maker's name, slide numbers, and detailed description of dial that includes: date, type, graphics, signature, main dial description, hemispheres, type of gilded gesso, date aperture, date dial on main dial, seconds dial on main dial, base paint, condition when received, date dial metal, date dial condition
One card per dial. Set also includes some miscellaneous cards with notes. Each card gives dial maker's name, slide numbers, and detailed description of dial that includes: date, type, graphics, signature, main dial description, hemispheres, type of gilded gesso, date aperture, date dial on main dial, seconds dial on main dial, base paint, condition when received, date dial metal, date dial condition
One card per dial. Set also includes some miscellaneous cards with notes. Each card gives dial maker's name, slide numbers, and detailed description of dial that includes: date, type, graphics, signature, main dial description, hemispheres, type of gilded gesso, date aperture, date dial on main dial, seconds dial on main dial, base paint, condition when received, date dial metal, date dial condition
A rare Regency striking trunk dial wall clock with engraved silvered dial.
Original article from Country Life (26 May 1988), p. 214.
Images of dials made by unknown makers.
Published in NAWCC Bulletin vol. 9 no. 11.
Original article from Das Heimatblättle (February 1972), pp. 1–4.
Photocopy of an article from Wireless World (October 1976), pp. 38–42.
Includes typewritten letters, photographs, copy drawing of La Place Royals de Dijon, Guide to Dijon booklet, Promenade a travers Dijon booklet, and a typescript of an article "The Jacquemart Clock of Dijon". Also includes handwritten letter from the AHS regarding inclusion of the article in the journal.
Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 256–260.
Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 690–693 and 694–696.
Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1975), p. 63.
Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1961), pp. 158–162.
Original article from Buying Antiques, vol. 1 no. 3 (1973), pp. 24–26.
Original article from Antique and Collectors Fayre, vol. 2 no. 12 (June 1988), pp. 24–26.
Part I of an original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1975), pp. 75–79.
Photocopy typescripts.
Handwritten.
Typescript. Also includes related postcards, negatives, exhibition catalogues, captioned photographs of exhibits; and "Gothic Clocks", a bound article by H. Alan Lloyd from "The Antique Collector" (June 1962).
Typescript.
Typescript.
This collection comprises material created and collected by the Bristol clockmaker Henry Draisey. It contains notebooks, drawings, plans, correspondence, photographs, glass plate negatives and printed material (books, newspaper cuttings, catalogues, price lists, etc.).
Draisey, HenryOriginal article from Antique Collector (April 1966), pp. 51–62.
Original article about rulers from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1984), pp. 58–60.
Includes typewritten letters in German, with English translations.
Original article from the "Weekend: Shopping" section of The Times (17 August 2002), p. 12.
Original article from The Antique Collector (September 1976), pp. 10–14.
2 b/w photographs, captioned.
Original article from Jeweller and Metalworker (15 September 1949), pp. 772–774.
Original article from Jeweller and Metalworker (15 October 1949), pp. 852–855.
Original articles from The Connoisseur (September and November 1937), pp. 123–130 and 246–252 respectively.
Original article from The Connoisseur, vol. 102 no. 444 (August 1938), pp. 68–73.
Original article from The Connoisseur (n.d.), pp. 147–151.
Includes "A forgotten Norfolk clockmaker", an article about John Oldfield by Peter Bolton (p. 418).
Main dial: four seasons corners, fully painted centre, shepherds and shepherdess in humps. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Moon faces: rather pensive, pink cheeks. Moon scenes: small ship at sea; elaborate ruin.
Main dial: dark-blue corners with auriculas, shells in decorated arch, use bronze powder paint. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Main dial: fat pink roses corners, one very large ship, with sea painted edge of breakarch. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Main dial: formal corners with gold leaf, Hobson ship dial centre.
Main dial: wider minute band, green background, blue anemone corners with gold ends, fat rosebuds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: very wide minute band, fancy ovals and roses corners, two bright birds centre. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: rabbits, upside-down tulips and flower centre, very impressive dial. False plate: cast iron, named.
Images of dials made by Edward Hobson and E. Hobson & Son, Birmingham dial makers active in the 1830s.
Main dial: quite wide minute band, oval with shell top corner, bottom corner, fleur-de-lys, flared tulips centre. Hemispheres: maps, North America left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: corners well painted. Hemispheres: scenes in humps.
Moon faces: very round-eyed, full mouth, pink cheeks. Moon scenes: ship at sea; ruined church.
Moon faces: tiny pursed mouth, serious. Moon scenes: nice ship; Gothic ruins. Presumed Hobson; no moon dial so I made one in style of 19 and 20 using new blank (no teeth), December 1996.
Main dial: eight-day, shells with decorated bands corners, two ships fighting in breakarch, no real background. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Main dial: silly sheep corners, flared tulips centre, fantastic house in landscape breakarch. False plate: cast iron, marked "E Hobson".
Main dial: pheasants with backgrounds in corners, cottage in centre. False plate: cast iron, marked "Hobson".
Main dial: pheasants with backgrounds corners, stylized baskets of flowers dial centre. False plate: cast iron, marked "Hobson".
Original article from The Connoisseur (August 1975), pp. 290–299.
Images of dials made by Edward Owen, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1800s–1820s.
Main dial: Owen dial cut out from original, much larger dial with Arabic numbers; name may not be original clockmaker. Carnation and primrose corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron. Owner most uncooperative about any photos or article.
Main dial: four-seasons gold band. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: Owen dial cut out from original, much larger dial with Arabic numbers; name may not be original clockmaker. Carnation and primrose corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron. Owner most uncooperative about any photos or article.
Main dial: Owen dial cut out from original, much larger dial with Arabic numbers; name may not be original clockmaker. Carnation and primrose corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron. Owner most uncooperative about any photos or article.
Main dial: well-painted four seasons, gold line framing. Hemispheres: USA maps, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey diamond centre, scrolling spandrel-type gesso corners. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey, primula or auricula gesso-framed corners; cottage and windmill in centre. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; four-seasons ladies, small heavy thighs, gesso framed, gold band inside chapter ring. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: blue-grey; four-seasons ladies, small heavy thighs, gesso framed, gold band inside chapter ring. Hemispheres: good maps, North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-continents ladies with pink faces, gold framed; outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-continents corners, gold framed, gold circle outside chapter ring. Hemispheres: North America on right, ecliptic below equator. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: four-seasons pink-faced ladies corners, gold framed, gold circle. Hemispheres: North America on left, ecliptic below equator.
Main dial: gold band, crooked pots of flowers corners. Hemispheres: maps. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: Owen moon roller; moon image missing; urns in corners in ovals blue with white and pink. Hemispheres: maps.
Main dial: four continents, gold bands, unusual dial. Same painter as Edward Glaze. Hemispheres: Father Time and a nun or saint.
Main dial: sheep in corners, framed on outside only. A late Owen with poor artwork. Hemispheres: sepia maps, North America on right. Partly visible moon scene: landscape with church on one side. False plate: cast iron.
Main dial: off-white; pink, brown and ochre birds and foliage gesso-framed corners; urn in oval; two side pieces in breakarch gesso frame. False plate: cast iron.
Moon faces: very round eyes, funny noses, blue around mouth and chin. Moon scenes: ship at sea; cottage with pointed roof by lakeside, tree in the middle.
Moon faces: pink faces. Moon scenes: cottage; ship at sea.
Moon faces: reasonably pleasant expression. Moon scenes: cottage at lakeside with tree; ship.
Moon faces: pleasant expression, red noses, red cheeks. Moon scenes: ship; cottage with odd roof.
Moon faces: round-eyed, pleasant expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; landscape with ruin and pointed-roofed house and tree.
Moon faces: very round protuberant eyes, serious expression. Moon scenes: dog (springer spaniel); cottage by lakeside, tree in middle of scene.
Moon faces: pop-eyed, surprised look. Moon scenes: ship entering harbour; landscape, cottage and windmill.
Moon faces: round-eyed, red noses, pleasant expression. Moon scenes: ship at sea; lakeside cottage, red roof.
Moon faces: sleepy-eyed, pleasant faces, quite pink all over. Moon scenes: ship at sea, side view; landscape with house and old tower.
Moon faces: serious expression, red noses. Moon scenes: girl with hay fork; ship at sea.