Longcase Clocks. Prior to Work popularizing a colloquial term, grandfather clocks were known as longcase or tall case clocks.

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 ...

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 ...

Since we stopped using the sundial to tell us when it was lunchtime the world began producing timepieces, among them the clock. News you can trust since 1887 Sign In ...

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 ...

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 ...

This clock was painted in England but imitating both designs and material from China, reflecting a moment in the history of the world when trade was expanding between Europe and the Far East. The ...

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.