(Draft) This is the fourth chapter in the story of Henry Sully: his relocation in 1711 from Leiden, Netherlands, to Germany (1711-13) and Austria (1714-15), where he continued to earn…
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(Draft) This is the third chapter in the story of Henry Sully: his relocation from London in 1705/06 to the Netherlands, where he made a living repairing clocks and watches,…
(Draft – Panorama image above is from an engraving done in 1616. City looked considerably different after 1666 fire, and by the time Sully arrived in London in 1694. )…
This is the first chapter in the story of Henry Sully: his origins in Somerset County England, a description of his birthplace, and historical information about the Sully family name.
In Southern England in 1728, there were six consecutive days of fog in September. The winter there would be severe, with snow from mid-December to the end of January. In…
According to Julien Le Roy, writing in Règle artificielle du temps (1737), the Scotsman financier John Law (1671 – 1729) , who was playing an increasingly important role in the…
(La photo titre de cet article représente un atelier pour la finition des échappements, à l’école de Besançon, vers la fin du XIXe siècle.) Cet article traite de Paul Chopard…
Nous avons acquis ce cartel d’applique en bronze doré de l’époque Louis XVI, signé Le Nepveu à Paris. Ce texte décrit et fournit des informations sur ce cartel, ainsi que…
This short post is an addendum to the story we wrote about the Parisian “horloger” André-Charles Caron, published in two articles by the NAWCC Bulletin, which are available to read…
(A collector alerted me, unfortunately too late, about this clock for auction. It was signed on the movement by Henry Sully from his time heading up a manufacture at Saint-Germain…