Collection STR - STRIKE ONE

Zone d'identification

Cote

STR

Titre

STRIKE ONE

Date(s)

  • 1966–2024 (Création/Production)

Niveau de description

Collection

Étendue matérielle et support

42 files in 9 boxes (1.5 linear metres)

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

Strike One Limited
(1968–c.2004)

Histoire administrative

Strike One (Islington) Limited, founded in 1968 at 1A Camden Passage, Islington, was one of London’s best-known specialist dealers in antique clocks, whose stock also included watches, barometers, music boxes and books. It was owned and operated by Milo Mighell, and founded with his friend and business partner, the journalist Doug Blaine. Strike One also specialised in the restoration of antique clocks and barometers. At the height of its success in the 1970s, the premises at 1A Camden Passage occupied three floors, with a showroom and a workshop, where Ron Rose was employed with two others repairing and restoring the clocks for the shop. Its main clientele consisted of private buyers, mostly resident and visiting Americans and English couples looking to furnish their houses with antique clocks. In the 1980s, as horological dealership became more competitive, Milo moved to 51 Camden Passage nearby, to smaller premises without a workshop as Ron Rose started working from home. Around 1992 Milo decided to follow suit, leave the Camden Passage premises and trade from home in Balcombe Street, Marylebone. Around 2004 Strike One was taken over by Rafferty & Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks of 79 Kensington Church Street, London.

Nom du producteur

Mighell, Milo
(b.1931)

Notice biographique

Milo Mighell (pronounced Mile; b.1931), officially John Mighell, is an expert on English, Continental and American clocks and author of a number of articles on clock collecting. He brought the attention of clock collectors around the world to previously neglected areas of horology, such as tavern clocks and Vienna regulators.

Milo had been working for 26 years for an international mining corporation until 1968, when his friend, journalist Doug Blain, came up with an idea of opening a clock shop. This became Strike One (Islington) Limited.

Dépôt

Antiquarian Horological Society

Histoire archivistique

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Deposited at the AHS at Lovat Lane in May 2025 via James Nye, at the recommendation of Ron Rose when Milo Minghell, then in his 90s, expressed a wish to have his business records preserved.

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

This collection comprises business records of Strike One Limited, specialist dealers in antique clocks and other horological items, founded by Milo Mighell in 1968. They include stock/sales books, which list every item that went through the business; clock photograph albums, which contain an image of every clock, together with a typed description (a ‘descriptive ticket’); clock files arranged by clock type, with individual clock descriptions; as well as a handful of sales and exhibition catalogues and other publications with Milo Mighell’s contributions. The archive also contains an interview with Milo Mighell conducted by James Nye in 2024; although not created as part of Strike One’s business activities, it sheds valuable light at its and its founder’s history.

The unique stock numbers, which were assigned to each item at the time of purchase and appear across the collection for cross-referencing purposes, are made up of two parts separated by a full stop/point. Before the full point is the month and two digits for the year. After the full point there is an incremental number assigned to each new purchase. For example, stock number 868.123 indicates August 1968, purchase 123.

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

Accroissements

The Strike One archive has been fully catalogued and no further deposits are expected.

Mode de classement

The collection is arranged into five series, as follows
STR/01: Stock / Sales Books
STR/02: Clock Photographs
STR/03: Clock Sales Files
STR/04: Catalogues and Publications
STR/05: Company History

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Conditions d'accès

These records are mostly available for public access by prior appointment. Records containing personal information, such as series STR/01, are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 2018.

Conditions de reproduction

Langue des documents

    Écriture des documents

      Notes de langue et graphie

      English

      Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

      Instruments de recherche

      Générer l'instrument de recherche

      strike-one-2.pdf

      Zone des sources complémentaires

      Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

      Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

      Unités de description associées

      Descriptions associées

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      Mots-clés

      Mots-clés - Sujets

      Mots-clés - Lieux

      Mots-clés - Noms

      Mots-clés - Genre

      Zone du contrôle de la description

      Identifiant de la description

      Identifiant du service d'archives

      Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

      Statut

      Niveau de détail

      Dates de production, de révision, de suppression

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          Note de l'archiviste

          Catalogued in July 2025 by the AHS Archivist.

          Zone des entrées