Posts Tagged ‘longcase’

Values of Vintage Gold and Silver Watch and Antique Clocks

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

As happens today, Royal patronage helped the french clock makers 19th century clock-makers. On November last, 1660, Evelyn recorded in his Diary: ‘I went up with some of my Relations to Court, to she we the ithaca clock face m his Majsties cabinet and closet of rarities . . . Here I [...]

Antique Clocks and Vintage Watches. How to identify.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

As London had no Code of Press Advertising in those days, the bronze clock stamped em references to the antiques watch necklace by sheffield Regulator being ‘not subject to alter by change of weather’ (i.e., temperature) is hardly accurate, for even now in the clock escapement design twentieth Century we have [...]

Antique Clocks and Pocket Watches

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Illustrations left and below are of a rare late sixteenth-century Gothic-style iron clock, of early German or Italian origin. Finely-engraved front plate, in mediaeval Italian style, carries a coat of arms, so far unidentified. Eyes in the french black square clock mask at the antique movado pocket watch gold top rock [...]

Values of Antique Clocks

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Values of Antique Clocks
‘Tempus rerum imperator’ is the clockmakers died from mercury motto contained with the very large antique sideboard clock with a glass dome Grant of Arms to the Worshipful Company of Clock-makers in 1671, and undeniably Time is the antique german tambour clock with legs ruler of all things. Xpovos [...]

ANTIQUE OAK AND MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCKS

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

ANTIQUE OAK AND MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCKS
A Longcase Clock Movement, circa 1740, with a Win. square brass dial, cast putto and crown spandrels, silvered chapter ring, matted centre signed Jno.
Inkpen, Horsham, the 30-hour movement rack striking on a bell, lacking, in a posted frame, with anchor escapement, with pendulum.
An oak Longcase Clock, with a 12in. arched [...]

American green onyx Mantel Clock, circa 1890, French gilt-spelter Mantel Clock, French marble and gilt Four-Glass Clock

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

American green onyx Mantel Clock, circa 1890, French gilt-spelter Mantel Clock, French marble and gilt Four-Glass Clock

An American green onyx Mantel Clock, circa 1890, the Ansonia Clock Co. movement gong striking, in an architectural case with gilt columns and vase finial,
44cm.
A miniature japanned Longcase Clock, with a modern watch movement, the case decorated in the [...]

A marquetry Longcase Clock, An oak Longcase Clock, Edwardian stained oak chiming Longcase Clock

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

A marquetry Longcase Clock, An oak Longcase Clock, Edwardian stained oak chiming Longcase Clock
An oak Longcase Clock, circa
1820, the Win. painted dial signed
T. Humphrey, Guildford, the 30-hour
movement striking on a bell, the hood
with moulded pediment and plain
columns, with plain trunk and plinth
base, 188cm.; 74in. high, with weight and
pendulum.
An oak and mahogany Longcase Clock, circa 1810, [...]

Belgian carved oak Longcase Clock, mahogany Longcase Clock, ‘Adam and Eve’ Longcase Clock, walnut and marquetry Longcase Clock

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Belgian carved oak Longcase Clock, mahogany Longcase Clock, ‘Adam and Eve’ Longcase Clock, walnut and marquetry Longcase Clock
An oak and mahogany 48-hour
Longcase Clock, the ll square painted
dial indistinctly signed Rollsonf,
Stamford, the hood with scroll pediment
and fluted columns cross-hatched trunk
door and resting on a deep plinth,
with weight and
pendulum
A mahogany Longcase Clock,
with a  arched painted dial, with
rolling [...]

ANTIQUE LONGCASE CLOCKS: German oak Longcase Clock, walnut chiming Longcase Clock, fruitwood Longcase Clock

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

ANTIQUE LONGCASE CLOCKS: German oak Longcase Clock, walnut chiming Longcase Clock, fruitwood Longcase Clock
A German oak Longcase Clock, circa, with W silvered dial and triple-train movement with gong striking, the case plain and with three glazed door panels, with pendulum and three
weights
An oak Longcase Clock, circa, the dial with enamel Arabic numerals in a square [...]

ANTIQUE WALL CLOCKS

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

ANTIQUE WALL CLOCKS

A rosewood and mother-of-pearl
inlaid drop-dial Wall Clock, with a ll
white painted dial, the single fusee
movement in a pegged case with inlaid
dial surround and trunk with leaf carved
shoulders, with pendulum
A mahogany Vienna Wall Clock,
with a /m. cream stepped dial and
gong-striking movement, the case with
fluted and baluster side columns and
carved mantling
A mahogany Wall Clock, with [...]