The poem to be inscribed as "A Man of Letters R.L.S." on a formal stone with irregular edges is inscribed with a 'one-word poem' and set in the grass within a small grove of birch trees" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a commercial Swiss match box that advertises a night club, 'Hot Lemon.' Finlay has printed in the same typography on the opposite side, 'Blue Lemon.' The poem that substitutes for the address site of "Hot Lemon" reads, Moray Firth Seine Netter - Fruition - Port Letters / Fishing Nos. INS265. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The inside of a Swan Vestas match box was modified to display an image of a sailboat on folded papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is based upon a design by the Elizabethan architect, Inago Jones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The watercolor depicts four ceramic, varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. The signature is Michael Harvey's but he has also printed Susan Goodricke's name adjacent to his. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The ink drawings provide construction details of four ceramic varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. One drawing is vertical and one drawing is horizontal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts two adjacent, brown colored, ceramic or concrete, vertical slabs lettered The Water's Hours with levels drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals and The Sky's Hours with strokes of a sundial drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals, respectively. In Oct 1973, Harvey writes to Finlay with descriptions of proposals for the Portsmith City Art Project, viz., Water's & Sky's Hours and Numbered Sails. Finlay replied within a week with minor modifications prior to their submission into the competition. He adds a note of encouragement to Harvey, "So the question is, who will get the Third Prize (As we have won the First and Second)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These drawings were done for a sundial sculpture to be made from Portland Stone and Westmorland Slate. The completed sculpture, Umbris Solis, was installed in the National Galleries of Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive also holds the card and the drawing with the same title. This work is also depicted in Bulletin of the National Galleries of Scotland No.3, a pamphlet periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Relates to the World War II battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A folded sheet onto which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann accompanies this medallion. The image is a metaphor for the World War II battle of Midway in the South Pacific which was fought with airpower rather that ship to ship sightings. The text accompanying this work is stored in a box of Finlay booklets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This publication which was edited by Zdenek Felix and Pia Simig was published on the occasion of Finlay's exhibition entitled Works - Pure and Political at Diechtorhallen, Hamburg Germany in 1995. Includes photographs b&w of Finlay's sculptural works, documentation on their significance, and a listing of his collaborators. Archival material forming the basis for several of these works is held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart (1972). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.