Catalogue description Papers relating to Leeds' research on craftsmen and old English clocks

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Title: Papers relating to Leeds' research on craftsmen and old English clocks
Description:

Letters to Leeds in response to his enquiries about particular watchmakers, 1935, including a letter giving a detailed history of Ollivant & Botsford Ltd, Goldsmiths, Jewellers and Silversmiths, 21 November 1935; a page from 'The Periodical' of October 1938 reporting on the 'Catalogue of the Plate of Merton College, Oxford', by E.Alfred Jones with a heavily annotated newscutting of a letter from E.Alfred Jones to 'The Times' on the Oxford Goldsmith Lemuel King, 18 April 1941and a printed guide to 'A Loan Exhibition of Old English Clocks...the work of Thomas Tompion...' a memento for Leeds from one of the promoters F.H. Green, Liveryman of the Clockmakers' Company, November 1933, an advertisement for the work of F.H. Green 'The Delicate Art of Restoring Old English Clocks...', 1932 and a decorative compliments slip from F.H. Green.
Date: 1932-1941
Held by: Oxford University: Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 folder

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