So what did everyone call it before that? Longcase Clocks Prior to Work popularizing a colloquial term, grandfather clocks were known as longcase or tall case clocks.

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She acquired 80, which have recently arrived in America and are available for purchase. To Benton’s knowledge, it is the largest collection of Swedish longcase clocks currently in this country.

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 ...

Long case clocks were first made in America around 1695 in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and then in Connecticut. Two distinct styles of design quickly emerged. Those in the Philadelphia style spread ...

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 anti… ...

As a horologist — someone who restores and conserves clocks and watches, the Alloway resident, who recently moved back to South Jersey from Pennsylvania, has set up shop at Kings Court ...

Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said.