If you would like to buy antique clocks we can propose them to you. Collecting of antique clocks is usually a hobby for successful people.

On the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantelpiece and room clocks began often to be found. Clocks were created of iron and were wound with the help of load. The very first mantel clocks were similar to tower clocks. They had the same scheme and components.

In the XV century period clocks were inserted walls' consoles. Years later wooden corbel became the element of the clocks' body. The style of it conformed to the entire design of the clock. Room clocks played a significant role in the decoration of a room. Every house stuck to the trend that was fashionable during the age and a clock was a part of the whole design composition of the house. Several centuries later appeared clock masters. They sought to give face to each clock they made. We may mark out such remarkable people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. They made real works of art and at that time they were unequalled exemplars that had no analogs on Earth. Only at the end of the XVIII century the remakes of the most remarkable models were found.

Mantel and desktop clocks have various types of shape. The shape of clocks depended on the artistic taste and aim of clocks. For example carved elements revealed with the commencement of Baroque epoch. With the increasing of the influence of the church on dwelling of people, different Christian emblems emerged on clocks. The cross and ciborium shapes were used for some clocks. You can choose among a great amount of various antique brass mantel clocks, even antique deer mantel clock that are represented on our internet source.

Floor clocks make independent group of clocks. This type of clocks outlived different styles and forms of the ages when they were done. This kind of clocks appeared in 1650-1660 and after 200 years they were continued to produce and saved their constant elements of design. The height of these clocks was really great. The height of these clocks reached tow hundred and seventy centimeters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first floor clocks were lower.

The style of the cabinet reveals the age when this or that clock were made. But sometimes you can find the clocks of the nineteenth century that are similar to clocks of the earlier periods. It happens because clock masters returned to the styles of preceding centuries. For the earliest period of floor clocks the smooth and slim cabinet is usual. There were glazed clock dials, wide foundation and lucerne in the cabinet. The middle part of such cabinet was a carcass to create a space for pendulum. The face of the cabinet usually resembled ebony. It was achieved owing to the saturation with oil.

Oak was widespread on the European continent. It was applied for its cheapness and firmness. People made from it frames and veneer for clocks. Provincial clock masters did cheap products and revered them with soft wood that has a look of marble. But we may also suggest you antique German clocks.