Also includes cover letter.
Also includes cover letter.
Includes drawings of movements and mechanisms.
Also includes time zone map and drawings of movements and mechanisms.
Also includes a world map of the event, an invitation to the event, and a cover letter referring to the cancellation of the London launch scheduled for 8 July 2005, due to the terrorist atack the day before.
Two versions of the press release, with some varying prices. One of the slides shows the "No. 760 000" watch sold in 1953 to Mr Champion and a letter referring to the sale.
Also includes a lenticular card featuring the "Fleurettes et Feuillage" pocket watch.
Includes "The Time Trilogy" of astronomy-related watches ("Astrolabium Galileo Galilei", "Planetarium Copernicus" and "Tellurium Johannes Kepler"), "Perpetual Ludwig", "Jaquemart" minute repeater, "Hourstriker Sonnierie En Passant" (including the "Erotica" version), marine chronometer "1846", "San Marco" chronometers (including ones with enamel cloisonne dials), "GMT +-", "Chronospilt Berlin", "Chronograph", "Sandhurst", "Skeleton", Michelangelo" and "San Marco Alarm" watches.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train square dial, matted and engraved centre, ringed winding holes, square decorated date aperture, separate date ring, inner markings to chapter ring, interim markings, smallish Arabic minute numerals, chevron engraving on dial edge, four-seasons spandrels.
Silvered edge to outward facing (12 o'clock-style) small moons with one black moon face, so called Penny Moon. Well painted, Manchester style landscapes; Bob Baxter, Southport.
Baldwin family clock bought in England by Frances Tennant's grandfather. Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, unrestored painted centre with shepherdess, applied date circle, square date aperture, head and foliage spandrels, maps on hemispheres, moons age on silvered and engraved edge to moon, painted by different person than 166, name on applied piece in arch.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, where original chapter ring had been removed and new painted centre, complete with numerals, put in. Impossible to say who made dial centre, but it is early, with decorated petal winding holes.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Moon scenes: landscape with lake.
This slide shows what can happen to a painted moon dial where very bad repainting is done on moon faces: crude in the extreme.
This slide shows completed restoration, with overpainting removed on one moon face and edge re-silvered.
Main dial: Crude paintings, dogs corners, man shooting in breakarch. Similar to dial shown on slide 459.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial, one-piece silvered dial with applied Rococo spandrels, curved date aperture, crude engraving, musical instruments in breakarch. This clock is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, with a fine case but dial does not look right.
Moon dial faces: jolly, painted type of moon face with red cheeks and nose. Moon dial painted right up to edge, no numerals, medium bright-blue type sky with large comet. Moon scenes: bright landscape with man crossing sagging bridge.
"High Water at Bristol Quay" in brass arch with moon. Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, engraved floral dial centre, square date aperture, seconds with compass points on dial centre, small interim markings on chapter ring, heavy Rococo spandrels. Hemispheres engraved and silvered with rising or setting sun with mountains on left, palms, water and a tower on right, tide as well as age of moon on extra applied piece on arch.
Main dial: two-train, matted centre, interim markings, outer markings on chapter ring, cherub-head spandrels, separate seconds ring, large bell.
Complicated clock, belonged to Ernest L Edwards, given to Merseyside Museum. Slide 281 shows dirty varnish on moon, 283 fully cleaned. Very fine professionally done painting. Moon has tiny mouth, vigorously painted waterfall on one side with leaning pine trees, street scene on other side.
Main dial: ruined abbeys corners, messy painting. Hemispheres: gold pavilions in humps.
Main dial: well-painted dead birds in corners; seated hunter and dog breakarch. Nice dial.
Main dial: swans in corners; girl with gold leaf, high-waisted dress in breakarch.
All-painted moon dial, very damage, with two landscapes. Quite well painted.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, arched dial with moon, arch a separate piece; engraved and silvered dial centre with daffodils, curved date aperture, seconds numerals. Only has Hanet Hannah engraved top and initials JHC (difficult to make out) on bottom. Urn and small head spandrels, maps on hemispheres.
Main dial: gold flowers all types, cream background; floral corners; woman and child at spring in breakarch; thin paint.
Very crude engraved moon dial with stars, Bristol (Connecticut) Museum. Paint in poor condition.
Moon dial with silvered edge. Very crude painting (Bob Baxter, Southport).
Main dial: cottages top, house with tower bottom, painted ruins in distance. Very thin paint. Hemispheres: humps.
Main dial: eight-day automata, gold (bronze) background to lighthouses and abbeys corners; font and grotto breakarch with silver leaf rocking ship.
Main dial: hounds in corners; huntsman with hounds in breakarch. Well painted.
Main dial: eighteenth-century brass dial bracket clock with automata in the breakarch. Brass rocking ship was engraved under the paint (owner Eric Gent, St Helens).
Very fine moon dial with silvered edge to moon showing exact age of moon (this is rare). David Holgares shop Browns in Liverpool has this clock.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Dates unsure as to which Barker this is. Corners four ages of love or life.
Main dial: houses and castles corners; top has swans; square Georgian-type houses; humps.
Moon scenes: sailing ship, ruined abbey.
Repaired dial and mechanism as a gift to Wrexham Heritage Centre. Moon has crude painted centre, unusual blue sky with stars.
Brass dial bracket clock with ship automata. Never had whole thing.
Main dial: ruined abbeys corners; Swiss lakeside scene breakarch. All well painted.
Back of date dial, made from much older clock brass.
Main dial: cream background; roses, tulips and gold flowers corners; pears, gold flowers and blue fruit centre.
Main dial: pointed ruins top corners, cottages bottom. Thin paint. Hemispheres: cottage in distance.
This moon dial with silvered edge was almost certainly painted by same person as that shown in slide 169 (Nathaniel Brown with painted centre). Moon scenes: landscapes with people.
Main dial: eight-day, gold (bronze) background to cottages and towers and windmills corners; mother and child at stream breakarch. Simple painting.
The only example of signed brass dial bracket clock painted decoration: Artist Grimaldi, well-known London painter, signature untouched, seen in 1103.
Main dial: cottages and abbeys corners; lakeside scene in breakarch. Thin, hasty painting.
Main dial: unusually shaped dial plate, Chinese-inspired painting. Well done, does not look like Birmingham work.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial, silvered and engraved centre, distinctive style engraving, large round-ended date aperture, interim markings on chapter ring; head and foliage spandrels; painted insert in breakarch: Juno with lightning.
Main dial: scenic corners, abbeys by waterside, white standing figure, maps in hemispheres. Iron moon.