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Last updated 6 April 2013

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[Sotheby's]: The Percy Webster Collection
O/P. Two illustrated auction catalogues for the sale of the important collection of clocks and watches formed by Percy Webster, held on 27 May and 19 October 1954, with separate list of prices realised. Very good copy, card covers. [London 27/05/1954 & 19/10/1954] (Ref: A202)

Price: £75.00

[Sotheby's]: Watches - The Belin Collection
O/P. 195 lots, many illustrated. A fine collection of pocket watches formed by Ferdinand Lammot Belin, an American who began collecting in 1917. The collection included several watches by Breguet, a half quarter-repeating chronometer by Earnshaw, and a clockwatch with alarm by Nicolas Volant. A very good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 29/11/1979] (Ref: A230)

Price: £9.00

[Sotheby's]: Fine Instruments of Science and Technology 1300 - 1900
O/P. 263 lots, some illustrated. The instruments included a silver Adams type microscope by Dixey of London and a rare Medieval European planispheric astrolabe dating from circa 1300. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 18/06/1986] (Ref: A91)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Instruments of Science and Technology 1600 - 1900
O/P. 205 lots, many illustrated. Top lots of the sale were an English kaleidoscope by W. Leigh circa 1830, a gilt brass gunners level by Tobias Volckmer dated 1615 and a gunners level by Paulus Reinman dated 1600. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 10/03/1987] (Ref: A99)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Fine Instruments of Science and Technology 1600 - 1950
O/P. 273 lots, many illustrated. The sale had a good selection of microscopes, telescopes and navigation instruments but the top lot was a rare French graphometer by Danfrie from circa 1600. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 23/06/1987] (Ref: A123)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: The Joseph M. Meraux Collection of Rare and Unusual Clocks
O/P. The auction catalogue for this famous collection containing 500 items, most of them illustrated. The sale was held in New York on 28 June 1993. Many of the clocks were French dating from the 19th century but the collection also included clocks from other European countries as well as from America. Very good copy, card covers. [Sale @ New York 28/06/1993] (Ref: A233)

Price: £15.00

[Sotheby's]: Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches and Barometers
O/P. 314 lots, most illustrated in colour. Highlights of the sale were a month going longcase regulator by Thomas Earnshaw and a pocket chronometer used by Captain Bligh on his second voyage to the West Indies and Tahiti. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 16/12/1993] (Ref: A27)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches and Barometers
O/P. 361 lots, most illustrated in colour. Catalogue includes four clocks by Thomas Tompion. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 14/12/1995] (Ref: A28)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Good Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches and Barometers
O/P. 414 lots, most illustrated. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 06/06/1996] (Ref: A30)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches and Barometers
O/P. 388 lots, many illustrated. A good selection of items including two Tompion bracket clocks. Good copy, some annotations to text, card covers. [Sale @ London 18/12/1996] (Ref: A11)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches and Barometers
O/P. 373 lots including items by George Graham, Thomas Tompion, John Ellicott and a rare night longcase clock circa 1675. Good copy, some annotations to text, card covers. [Sale @ London 05/06/1997] (Ref: A12)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Fine Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches, Barometers and Mechanical Musical Instruments
O/P. 570 lots, most illustrated. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 01/10/1997] (Ref: A34)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Clocks, Watches and Wristwatches
O/P. 583 lots, most illustrated. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ Amsterdam 08/10/1997] (Ref: A35)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Good Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches and Barometers
O/P. 253 lots, many illustrated. Good copy, a few annotations in text, cards, covers. [Sale @ London 17/12/1997] (Ref: A36)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Good Clocks, Watches and Barometers
O/P. 373 lots, many illustrated. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 11/06/1998] (Ref: A38)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches, Barometers and Mechanical Musical Instruments
O/P. 541 lots, many illustrated. The sale included fine longcase clocks by Joseph Knibb and George Graham plus regulators by Frodsham, Dent and Ellicott. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 01/10/1998] (Ref: A39)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches, Wristwatches and Barometers
O/P. 349 lots, many illustrated, including a quarter striking longcase clock with revolving moon in the arch by Thomas Mudge. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 22/06/1999] (Ref: A43)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Watches, Clocks, Barometers, Mechanical Music and Scientific Instruments
O/P. 716 lots, many illustrated. Nice items included in the sale were a walnut longcase clock by Joseph Knibb and a quarter repeating longcase clock by Thomas Tompion (number 160). Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 09/11/1999] (Ref: A44)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Masterpieces from the Time Museum: including Watches, Clocks and Scientific Instruments
O/P. A large hardbacked catalogue, with dust jacket, for the sale of 81 fabulous items from the Time Museum, Rockford, Illinois. The lots are all superbly illustrated and include the Henry Graves super-complicated watch by Patek Philippe, a Breguet Sympathique clock with its original watch and a grande sonnerie tortoise-shell bracket clock by Tompion. A fine copy with good dust jacket. [Sale @ New York 02/12/1999] (Ref: A17)

Price: £35.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches, Scientific Instruments, and the Arqueonautas Collection of Marine Archaeology
O/P. 589 lots, many illustrated. Lots of fine clocks including a longcase timepiece by Thomas Tompion. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 19/12/2000] (Ref: A47)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Watches, Clocks, Barometers, Horological Books and Mechanical Musical Instruments
O/P. 367 lots, many illustrated. This sale had lots of interesting items including a mercury barograph by Negretti & Zambra and a marine chronometer, of two weeks duration, by M.F. Dent. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 04/04/2001] (Ref: A48)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: The Justice Warren Shepro Collection of Clocks
O/P. 137 pages, 145 lots all illustrated, 2001. The catalogue of a famous collection sold in New York. Shepro collected early European table clocks, English lantern, bracket and longcase clocks and French clocks including those with fine Boulle cases. A useful reference book for the enthusiast. Hardback, a fine copy with very good dust jacket. [Sale @ New York 26/04/2001] (Ref: A265)

Price: £22.00

[Sotheby's]: Fine watches, Clocks and mechanical Music
O/P. An interesting catalogue illustrating many fine items. Good copy, card covers a little creased. [Sale @ London 05/07/2001] (Ref: A15)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Clocks, Watches and Barometers
O/P. 238 lots, many illustrated. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 20/09/2001] (Ref: A52)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches, Barometers and Mechanical Musical Instruments
O/P. 369 lots, many illustrated. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 12/12/2001] (Ref: A53)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Masterpieces from the Time Museum Part Two
O/P. 218 lots, all illustrated in colour. A catalogue full of rare and magnificent clocks and watches from around the world. A good copy, reference library stickers on first page, card covers.
[Sale @ New York 19/06/2002 ] (Ref: A150)

Price: £35.00

[Sotheby's]: Good Clocks and Mechanical Music
O/P. 186 lots, many illustrated. This sale included fine regulators by Thomas Earnshaw and Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 28/06/2002] (Ref: A57)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Important Clocks, Watches and Barometers
O/P. 317 lots, many illustrated. Highlight of the sale was a fine musical and automaton table clock attributed to James Cox for the Chinese market circa 1775. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 19/09/2002] (Ref: A58)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Masterpieces from the Time Museum Part Three - Scientific Instruments
O/P. 39 lots of fine scientific instruments, all illustrated in colour. The items include an analemmatic dial by John Bird, a portrait of Tycho Brahe and a late 17th century Persian miniature astrolabe. A good copy, reference library stickers on first page, card covers. [Sale @ London 30/10/2002] (Ref: A226)

Price: £30.00

[Sotheby's]: Good Watches, Clocks, Barometers & Mechanical Music
O/P. 577 lots, many illustrated. More than half of the lots on offer were watches. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 17/12/2002] (Ref: A60)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Good Clocks, Watches, Barometers & Mechanical Music
O/P. 265 lots, many illustrated. The top watch in the sale was a minute repeating perpetual calendar clock watch made in London circa 1900. The clocks included a rare early provincial longcase clock by Thomas Boulton circa 1695, a walnut marquetry longcase by Joseph Buckingham of London, a John Knibb bracket timepiece and a small hooded lantern alarm timepiece by Daniel Quare. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 19/03/2003] (Ref: A62)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Fine Clocks, Watches, Barometers and Mechanical Music
O/P. 393 lots, many illustrated. A fine tourbillon wristwatch by Breguet, a fine gold and enamel pair-cased pocket watch and an unusual longcase regulator by John Arnold were some of the interesting items for sale. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 31/03/2004] (Ref: A184)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Scientific Instruments, Clocks, Barometers & Mechanical Music
O/P. 168 lots, many illustrated. The star item was an unrecorded horizontal sundial by Thomas Tompion, on its original stone pedestal, made for the 11th Earl of Kent circa 1700. Good copy, a few annotations in text, card covers. [Sale @ London 15/06/2004] (Ref: A50)

Price: £4.00

[Sotheby's]: Masterpieces from the Time Museum part 4 Volume 1
O/P. 116 lots, all illustrated in colour. The closure of the Time Museum and the dispersal of its collections at Sotheby's in 2004 has left us with 3 excellent catalogues as a permanent memorial. This catalogue of the European clocks and watches includes a wooden longcase regulator by John 'longitude 'Harrison, several watches by Breguet, an early pendulum timepiece by Salomon Coster and a renassance table clock by Hans Gruber. A fine copy, card covers. [Sale @ New York 13/10/2004 ] (Ref: A229)

Price: £35.00

[Sotheby's]: Fine Clocks, Watches, Barometers, Mechanical Music & Scientific Instruments
O/P. 453 lots, most illustrated in colour. The catalogue includes a very rare English ormolu musical and quarter striking table clock by Matthew Boulton and Thomas Wright. Good copy, card covers. [Sale @ London 29/09/2005] (Ref: A22)

Price: £4.00

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