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Contains tracings only. No original number. Inserted between disordered files 79 and 40.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

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Contains one sheet of notes with tracings.

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Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings

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Contains typewritten description, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains typewritten description, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains sketches and tracings.

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Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 129–131. Annotated '80'.

Bound typescript, 11 chapters. Contents: 1) A little history; 2) Some lost treasures; 3) The Strasburg Clocks; 4) The Great Clock of Prague; 5) The Astronomical Clock of Lyons; 6) The Jacquemart Clock at Dijon; 7) The Zimmer Clock of Lierre; 8) The Clock Tower of Berne; 9) The Clock of Lund; 10) The Lubeck Clock; 11) Some minor marvels.

Photocopy of an article published in Wireless World.

James Reith was apprenticed in 1698 and became the vice director of a watch manufactory in Versailles, France. File includes extracts from sales catalogues, technical descriptions, biographical information, invoices, photographs, and related correspondence.

Original article from Endeavour (January 1954), pp. 5–16.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1973), pp. 95–97.

Original guest editorial article about clocks and watches from Antique Collecting, vol. 26 no. 8 (February 1992), p. 1.

Original article in two parts from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie no. 7–8 (July 1945 and August 1945 ), pp. 311–313 and 457–460 respectively. Annotated '80'.

Includes an article from The Horological Journal by Joseph M. Brown, handwritten notes and three photographs.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 20 no. 7 (December 1985), pp. 25–26.

Original article from Antique Collector (October 1958), pp. 185–190.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1956), pp. 29–31.

Original article from Discovering Antiques no. 40 (n.d.), pp. 952–956.

Bound copies of extracts from Horological Journal.

Original article from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (November 1851), pp. 354–357.

This series contains prints of Northcote's map of Oxfordshire and an auction catalogue.

Enlarged photographic copy, previously framed, showing the inside of the shop with a naval officer purchasing a chronometer, the "Tempus Fugit" motto and establishment date of 1749. J. W. Benson was a watch and chronometer maker.

Original article Country Life (1 December 1988), pp. 160–165.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (December 1950), pp. 30–32.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1950), pp. 17–19.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (April 1951), pp. 24–26.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1951), pp. 22–24.

Original article from Antique Collecting, vol. 13 no. 8 (January 1979), pp. 25–27.

Original article about address given to to the Royal Society of Arts on 14 February 1946, from Jeweller and Metalworker (1 March 1946), pp. 138–144.

Includes correspondence with Prescot Mechanism Company and other organisations and individuals; press cuttings; copies, reprints and extracts from horological journals, publications and catalogues; flyer and programme for at City of Liverpool College course in Aspects of Horology held in 1983; and photographs.

Original articles from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1994), pp. 24–27 and 21–23.

Original article about regulator clocks from the Clocks supplement of The Antique Collector (1987), pp. 21–24. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.

Original article from Science News no. 9 (Penguin Books, 1948), pp. 88–103.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (January 1956), pp. 25–27.

Original article about platinum and its applications, from Business World (n.d.), pp. 25–30.

Includes typewritten letter, an extract from the Official Guide Book about the "Astronomical Clock at Prague Town Hall", and a magazine cutting with the photograph of the clock.

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 127–134. Annotated '83'.

Held at Hôtel des Bergues on Sunday 14th November 1993. By Antiquorum Auctioneers.

41 postcards, mostly blank, some with greetings addressed to Rita Shenton and E. J. Tyler. Also includes one colour slide of Overdrawn at the Bank, a painting by Charles Spencelayh.

15 blank postcards showing watches and clocks from the collection, as well as the museum and the town. Includes a set of six transparency slides .

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1960), pp. 25–27.

Original article from Apollo (May 1968), pp. 363–379.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (September 1955), pp. 28–30.

Original article from The Antique Collector (May 1984), pp. 68–71.

Original article from The Connoisseur (March 1935), pp. 152–154.

Complete series of 20 cards, with some duplicates.

Includes typewritten letters, two printed photographs, and a newspaper cutting from Beschaulich Daheim (1933) with an article "Die Kunstuhe an Rathaous zu Plauen".

Original article about a pistol in possession of Sir David Lionel Golsmid-Stern-Salomons, a watch and clock collector, from The Connoisseur, vol. 125 no. 515 (March 1950), pp. 51–52. Pages also include short articles about other, non–horological collectibles.

Original article from The Connoisseur (January 1920), pp. 93–100.

Mainly from N.P. Mander Ltd, pipe organ builders. In an envelope addressed to Rita from N. P. Mander.

Includes correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, and cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings.

Original article about working clocks inserted into oil paintings from Antique Collecting (December 1995/January 1996), p. 30.

Photocopy articles from Pearson's Weekly (1907).

38 b/w photographs, with film negatives.

15 b/w photographs. Guests include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harris, Dr Ward and others. File also includes a bound article on the Wuppertal Clock and Watch Museum by Allan Lloyd, from "The Antique Collector" (Oct 1966).

2 b/w photographs. From the Science Museum.

2 b/w photographs. "St Jerome with Clock" is based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving "St Jerome in His Study"; and "Sir Thomas More and His Descendants" on a copy of a lost 1527 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.

51 b/w photographs, mostly of groups, events and tours, some captioned. Also includes a poster for "300 Years of Pendulum Clocks", a special exhibition at the Science Museum (Dec 1956–Feb 1957); and a trade card of Joseph Stainton Watch Material Warehouse, Birmingham.

2 b/w photographs. Originally in an envelope labelled "Two photos from B. Bopp".

This series comprises images of clock dials made by known Birmingham makers.

The dials have been categorised by Frances Tennant into the following dial types:
12 o'clock moon, Arched with moon, Automata, Birds in arch, Brass arched, Brass arched moon, Brass square, Gesso in arch, High oval in arch, Low oval in arch, Moon dial, Other arch, Other dial type, Oval dial, Picture in arch, Round dial, Square dial.

2 b/w photographs.

1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.

Original article from The Antique Collector (August 1983), pp. 34–35.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (November 1955), pp. 28–30.

Two original articles from Newnes Practical Mechanics (February and March 1955), pp. 211–212, 222 and 240–242 respectively. Includes February 1955 issue cover.

Original article from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (May 1978), p. 77–79.

Original article about longcase clocks of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century, from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1990), pp. 44–46.

Original article, probably from from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 52–56. Annotated '91A'.

Includes mostly typewritten letters, an excerpt from Chapter 3 of Castle's "Remarkable Clocks", a photograph of Oronce Fine's astronomical clock, and a photograph and copy drawing of De Vick's clock from the Palais de Justice. Also includes typewritten letter from the British Horological Institute .

Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of Wynn's description of his Society of Arts Gold Isis Medal winning invention of a time-keeper and a compensating pendulum (1817). Also includes, as front, C. G. McKay's short letter about William Wynn, published in Antiquarian Horology (Autumn 1977) and a biographical note about Wynn from the ninth edition of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers.