Au sommet de mon cartel Julien Le Roy (voir article à ce sujet sur ce site), figure une sculpture bronze représentant la déesse Hébé assise sur Jupiter (Zeus) sous forme…
Author: <span>Robert</span>
On retrouve ce poinçon sur des bronzes décoratifs (sur des cartels, par exemple) du 18ième siècle en France. These marks are found on some decorative bronzes (on cartel clocks for…
Source: Machines et inventions approuvées par l’Academie royale des sciences, depuis son établissement jusqu’à present : avec leur description : dessinées & publiées du consentement de l’Academie / par M.…
Source: Octobre 1728 – Mercure de France – Pages 2271-2274 – (translated by Robert St-Louis 2020) The death notice for English horologist Henry Sully (1680 – 1728) appeared in the…
Written and translated by : Robert St-Louis, June 2020 Source: 1737, Henry Sully, Paris: Règle artificielle du temps. Traité de la division naturelle & artificielle du temps, des horloges & des…
The Nagra IIci This post deals with the earliest Nagra recorder I ever owned (and since sold to an American collector, when my interests veered to other subjects), a Nagra…
Another aspect of tales about time, is the subject of audio recording, in essence capturing voices and sounds of past moments in time, for posterity. The same could be said…
This article contains information and photos on my recently acquired Régence or early Louis XV era cartel clock, by the celebrated maker Julien Le Roy. Acquisition: I purchased the clock…
In the biographical research I’ve done on Henry Sully (1679-1728), I identified the names of the children that he fathered. Four were with his first wife, in Holland. Then after…
One of my activities during the pandemic year of 2020 was to research and write an article that was submitted to the Antiquarian Horological Society in London, for publication in…