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FRE/01/007 · File · c.1961
Part of FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED

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.

FRE/01/008 · File · 1960s
Part of FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED

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.

FRE/01/009 · File · 1959–1964
Part of FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED

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.

CLOCK PHOTOGRAPHS
STR/02 · Series · 1981–2000s
Part of STRIKE ONE

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.

CLOCK REPAIR FILES
THO/01 · Series · 1930–1973
Part of THORNTON, PHILIP

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.

Clock repair notebook
DRA/01/010 · File · 1947 - 1948
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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

CLOCK SALES FILES
STR/03 · Series · 1979–2016
Part of STRIKE ONE

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).

CLOCKMAKERS AND ENGRAVERS
EVA/04 · Series · 1913–2019
Part of EVANS, JEREMY

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

DRA/01 · Series · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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'

Clockmaking notebook
DRA/01/009 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook
DRA/01/008 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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

Clockmaking notebook no. 1
DRA/01/001 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 2
DRA/01/002 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 3
DRA/01/003 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 4
DRA/01/004 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 5
DRA/01/005 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 6
DRA/01/006 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

CAS/02/011 · File · n.d. [1950s]
Part of CASTLE, JOHN

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.

WAD/01/S/003/02 · Item · 1978 Feb
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

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

"Collectors scrapbook"
WAD/01/01/046 · File · 1974 Oct
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original pages from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1974), pp. 141–142, including a short article on Huguenot clockmakers. Includes issue cover and advertisement page.