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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The exhibition at Leeds Discovery Centre includes cuckoo clocks, long case clocks, better known as Grandfather clocks, and even retro digital alarm clocks, and will be available to view on Wednesday.