IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/239
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BUCKLEY, Francis (fl 1912-1941)
Date(s): 1930-1938
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 6 production units.
Name of creator(s): Buckley | Francis | fl 1912-1941 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Francis Buckley was an antiquarian and author, who wrote many books and articles, published between 1912 and 1941, mostly relating to the history of the glass making industry, clockmaking and metal working; such as Old English Drinking Glasses (1913); Seventeenth Century Spoons (1928); Old watchmakers (1929) and Fob Seals in the Seventeenth Century (1932).
George Bent Buckley published books on cricket.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
These papers of Francis and George Bent Buckley comprise antiquarian notes compiled by them from 1930 to 1938, chiefly relating to watches and 17th and 18th century London watchmakers.
The records comprise: list of lost watches of London watchmakers, c 1930 (Ms 02921); list of references to 18th-century newspaper advertisements relating to watchmakers, clockmakers and allied trades, c 1934 (Ms 03338); list of British clockmakers working outside London, 1937 (Ms 03355); and alphabetical list of glass sellers, china-men and "potters", 1938 (Ms 03384).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records have been listed in no particular order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated to Guildhall Library by Messrs Buckley between 1930 and 1938 and were catalogued in the 1930s by members of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.