Longcase Clocks. Prior to Work popularizing a colloquial term, grandfather clocks were known as longcase or tall case clocks. Although pendulum mechanisms had been used in clocks—a development ...

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - Ella Benton fell in love in Paris in 2015. Not with her husband, in this particular reference, but with a clock. A curvaceous, charming thing she came across in a dusty ...

The British first called them long-case clocks. Americans initially called them tall-case clocks.“But everybody calls them grandfather clocks,” says John Snead, an expert in these antique ...

Inside Kings Court Antiques, Perry has several clocks — some dating back to the 1600s — tall-case or longcase clocks, as well as a few barometers, on display in the front of the shop.

A gentleman in Maine has asked for our help in finding a “Brass Wheel” Long case clock that was sold from Quoketaug"an Old Mystic Conn. family home about 1959– (for $5,000). It was a 1776, Thomas ...

This is the dial of my pine-cased longcase clock. This style of dial with arabic numbers is typical of longcase clocks made between 1800-1820. This dial can be fairly accurately dated at around ...

This clock represents the pinnacle of achievement in horology for the late 17C. How Thomas Tompion who made it acquired his outstanding scientific and technical skills is not known. The 'face' has ...

An exceptional Irish longcase clock and horse drawn carriage are among the lots at Mealy’s auction at Woodview House near Ferns, Co Wexford next Tuesday, (Oct 1), at 11am.