Series EVA/01 - NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS: WATCHES AND WATCHMAKERS

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This series contains prints from microfilms and photocopies of British newspaper extracts mentioning seventeenth- and eighteenth-century watches and watchmakers, compiled and annotated by Jeremy Evans. The newspapers include mainly the Daily Advertiser and other contemporary local papers such as The London Gazette, but twentienth-century catalogues and other publications are also present. Topics include mainly losses or thefts of watches, but also sales of goods, debts, bankruptcies, marriages, deaths, wills, appointments, absconsions, elopements, criminal charges, etc. The files also include some photographs of watches and clocks. Please note that some of the microfilm prints are not easily legible and in a few cases Jeremy Evans' attempts to decipher or identify the surnames were tentative, and alterative spellings of surnames are often provided.

These papers are arranged alphabetically by makers' surnames, retaining the original arrangement at the time of deposit. They were originally kept in 39 black ring-binders but have been split into smaller files by the archivist for access and preservation purposes.

English