Christie's South Kensington Ltd (London)

(26 cm), 107 (9) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 161 lots. Publisher’s black cloth binding, covers blocked in gilt. - Preface by Anthony Turner; some descriptions are adapted from Turner’s entries in The Time Museum: catalogue of the collection (Rockford, IL: The Museum, 1984-1987). The Time Museum had been founded in 1970 by the industrialist Seth G. Atwood (1917-2010) in Rockford, Illinois. It closed in 1999, when Atwood consigned 81 pieces to Sotheby’s New York (sale realised $28,285,000), sold another 492 pieces to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry (for approximately $5.6 million), and contracted to sell 1551 more pieces to the City of Chicago (for approximately $25 million); further auction sales were conducted in New York and in London in 2002. The City of Chicago resold their pieces at Sotheby’s, New York, 13-15 October 2004. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. No Price list.