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Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

Battery-driven Quartz Clock by Smiths, British, 1980-85

1971-1979

Wall clock, battery-operated

Six-stage half-hour sand-glass

1600-1630

Timepiece

1900

Zappler timepiece with replacement minute hand

Small timepiece movement with helical gearing (incomplete)

Small timepiece movement with helical gearing

Japanese pillar timepiece. Hour indicator and two hour-marks and wheel missing.

Japanese pillar timepiece

Spring-driven fusee timepiece movement with dovetail lever escapement. "VULLIAMY. LONDON. No.1593. A.D.1843" engraved on backplate

Spring-driven fusee timepiece movement with doveta

1843
Atmospheric clock, Mercury, unsigned, 1850-1900. The time is shown by a bead of mercury falling down a sealed plugged glass tube under gravity. The use of mercury in timekeeping has several different patents.

Mercury Atmospheric Clock, 1850-1900

1850-1900