This is just an introductory place marker for much more information and photos to come on my newly acquired Régence or early Louis XV era cartel clock, by the celebrated…
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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…
Un des grands innovateurs de l’horlogerie française dans la première moitié du 18ième siècle, Julien Le Roy écrit ces mots en guise d’introduction à un mémoire traitant de changements radicaux…
I’ve embarked some months ago on an ambitious project to document Henry Sully’s life in more detail than has ever been done before. From his origins in backwater Somerset, through…
1717– Henry Sully – Règle artificielle du tem(p)s [Artificial regulation of time] 1741 – Antoine Thiout (L’ainé) – Traité de l’horlogerie mécanique et pratique [Treatise on mechanical and practical horology]…
For fun I ordered a copy of this book, available quite cheaply on the used market. I read somewhere that the author used a pseudonym, and that he worked (as…
In England, France, and other countries with monarchs, many clock makers labeled their clock dials or movements with the phrase “clock maker to the king” or queen, or prince… Some…
A document I’d like to read some day is a manuscript written by William Oughtred (1574-1660) entitled (in modern English) “Some directions towards the making of a small watch of…
I acquired this clock from a local seller a few days ago. It has a long family history, mostly in Montreal. Maker is Robert Scholfield of Rochdale, England, engraved on…