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PAINTED DIAL CLOCKS 1770-1870 BY BRIAN LOOMES
Antique Collectors' Club - Title Information
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Painted Dial Clocks
Brian Loomes
No prior knowledge is assumed in the reader and the book explains how even the beginner can very easily learn to assess the style, age and quality and even the region of origin of any painted dial clock. The development of dial and case style is explained in non-technical detail with 44 colour plates and 275 black and white illustrations.
In particular, regional trends and tastes in cases are identified and explained in detail, a feature of no other book. Considerable attention is given to show how the trade worked in the past, including how the clockmaker and the customer selected their dials. The book is written in a manner which can easily be followed by the beginner or the inexperienced owner of a clock, but the expert will find much here that is new, including a fully-detailed list of every recorded dialmaker, essential for cross-checking the age of any clock. Required reading for the owner of any painted dial clock as well as collectors and dealers.
This is the only book dealing with antique British clocks with painted dials, also known as japanned or white dials.
The Author
Brian Loomes is Britain’s best-known and most widely-published author in the field of antique clocks.
He has written scores of articles and numerous books on the subject including several which have become standard texts and are used by collectors, dealers and museums throughout the world.
As a former professional genealogist and a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, his familiarity with source material has enabled him to undertake his own researches into clockmakers of the past, their lives and work. Much of his writing is based on personal research and provides a new insight into the subject from an author who thinks for himself Since 1966 he has been a dealer in antique clocks in the Yorkshire Dales, where he and his wife run their specialist antiques business in a former farmhouse.
Specifications
Size: 279 x 216 mm
Pages: 350
Illustrations: 40 col. 200 b&w.
ISBN: 1 85149 183 X
Price: $69.50
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10377
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Westclox "Electric" by Jim Linz - New 2004 Softcover
Westclox®
"Electric"
Jim Linz
ISBN: 0764319108
Size: 8 1/2'' x 11''
Illustrations: 438 color, 291 black & white photos
Pages: 256
Hundreds of Westclox® electric clocks introduced between 1931 and 1970 are displayed in over 720 images. This impressive book also covers Westclox store displays, after-market automobile clocks, and weather instruments. Many of the over 200 store displays pictured feature impressive Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern designs.
Although Westclox did not introduce its first electric clock--the "Big Ben Electric"--until 1931, it nonetheless proved to be an innovator in electric time keeping. This book contains extensive information on those innovations and the men behind them. It also provides documented evidence of the designers of dozens of models. In addition to Henry Dreyfuss, readers are introduced to lesser known designers such as Max Schlenker and Ellworth Danz.
An extensive history of the company is presented, drawn largely from the pages of Tick Talk, Westclox's employee magazine. Westclox's expansion into overseas markets, acquisition of other companies such as the Sterling Clock Company, and merger with Seth Thomas to form General Time are all discussed. Marketing efforts ranging from Westclox's earliest Saturday Evening Post ad in 1910 to its sponsorship of the Today Show in the 1960s are also included. Endnotes, a bibliography, indices, and values in the captions round out this impressive presentation for collectors, designers, and historians.
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Westclox - Wind Up by Jim Linz - New Softcover
Westclox® - "Wind Up" by - Jim Linz
ISBN: 0764319116 Size: 8 1/2'' x 11''
Illustrations: 401 color & 396 black and white photos - Pages: 256
Price Guide/Index
Over 790 images display hundreds of Westclox® "wind-up" clocks and watches produced between 1885 and 1970. An extensive history of the company and its employees is told through photographs, poems, letters, and anecdotes drawn from the Westclox magazine-Tick Talk. Westclox' pioneering marketing efforts are discussed, including its move into radio advertising with the Big Ben "Dream Dramas." The informative text also includes data on major innovations in spring clocks and watches, identifying both patents and inventors. Included are George Kern's original patents for "Big Ben."
Westclox spring clocks and watches spanned many design eras, including Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern. In addition to Henry Dreyfuss' well-known redesigns of Big Ben during the 1930s and 1940s, the designers of dozens of other clocks are identified. Among the designers discussed are Joseph Steinmeier, Max Schlenker, Ellworth Danz, and Roman Szalek. Endnotes, a bibliography, and indices are included, along with current market values in the captions. Clock collectors, designers, and historians will find this book fascinating. Endnotes, a bibliography, and index are included, along with current market values in the captions. Clock collectors, designers, and historians will find this book fascinating.
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Gustav Becker clocks
Hardcover book - 8 1/2 x 11 - 248 pages with 2000 Price Update. The Gustav Becker crown and anchor trademark is now quite familiar to clock enthusiasts. Usually shown on the dial, and virtually always on the movement, this mark assures a potential owner that the clock or timepiece was well made, with strong attention to quality. This volume demonstrates the great variety of clocks (and a few watches) manufactured by Gustav Becker. The clear pictures and current value estimates will be useful to
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Vienna Regulator Clocks
Hardcover book with valuable price guide. 180 pages, 348 plus pictures. Great reference book. This range of clocks used to be considered the common, household clock which many people recognized but for which little documentation was available. Rick Ortenburger now presents the book that will fill this void. Vienna regulator clocks were first produced in Vienna, Austria about 1780 and then became a familiar style made also elsewhere in the German-speaking world. Included are early, transitional, serpentine, altdeutsch, Baroque, and factory-made types from 1780 until about 1930, of one, two, and three-weight movements. The author has done his own research in Europe and America in both German and English so he is able to present much original information in a pleasing format for the average reader. His brief, factual text, supported by good photographs, useful in identifying the period of manufacture, may be the book's most useful feature to the serious collector. Her fully explains the production of Gustav Becker, Junghaus, HAC, Lenzkirch and competitive factories whose products are still on the market and well within the financial means of the vast majority of clock enthusiasts. He also covers many rare and exotic regulators such as long-duration clocks and variations from the norm.
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Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers - 7th Edition by Britten's
A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad, Containing a List of Nearly Fourteen Thousand Makers. Seventh Edition. Bonanza Books: N.Y., (after) 1956. Quarto, cloth-backed boards, in a dust wrapper. 518 pages, indexed and illustrated.
A standard and essential reference for anyone interested in the history of clocks and watches. "Beginning with early time recorders, the work moves on to detail weight clocks, portable timekeepers, pocket watches, French clocks and cases, the progression of English domestic clocks, and the mechanism of clocks and watches, to a final section, being a comprehensive list, from many sources, of former clock and watch makers.
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The American Clock 1725-1865 by E. Battison & P. Kane Rare Book
Greenwich; New York Graphic Society: 1973. Fifty outstanding examples of American clockmaking, described and illustrated by the Curator of Horology at the Smithsonian and the Curator of the Garvan Collection at Yale. The examples include tall case, shelf and wall clocks, from one of the greatest public collections in America. The innards, in many cases, are illustrated right there along with the outards... Hardcover. 9.5"x10.5", 207 pages, b/w illustrations;
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10175
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Spring-driven Dutch Pendulum Clocks 1657-1710 by Dr. R. Pomp
Schiedam., 1979. or.cloth. 251 p. With a lot of illustractions. You will find color and black and white. ---
This book concist of three parts.
In Part 1 the historical development is described. This part includes a chapter on earley French pendulum clocks; no other foreign clocks reveal so strikingly their descent from the first Dutch pendulum clocks.
Part II presents in alphabetical order of their malers' names, documentation on and reproductions of 134 Dutch clocks.
Part III, the shortest part; is an attempt to develop and objective dating system for Hague clocks. For a dealer, connoisseur, or a colector. Buyer to pay shipping and handling of $5.00
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Precision Pendulum Clocks by Derek Roberts - NEW
The incredible story of how leading clockmakers, primarily of England, struggled to control accurate timekeeping for over 300 years. A thorough yet concise text is accompanied by nearly 1,000 photographs of clocks which demonstrate each fascinating development. Georgian, Regency, and Victorian advances are shown to have contributed to the eventual success of accurately measuring time, that is so crucial to the success of today’s highly integrated society.
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New Haven Clock Co. Original Catalog dated 1880
This catalog is in good plus condition. I would rate it a 8.5. It needs minor additional cleaning. The front cover has some minor dirt. The back cover has some minor dirt and plus one of the corners has a crease in it. The interior has some minor dirt. It is 9.75 x 6.5. There are 71 pages. Contents: illustrations of wall, shelf, alarm, regulator, calendar, O.G., lever clocks. There are no prices. There are two extra sheets showing a Scribe clock and a carriage clock ( The Pilgrim - Check photo). The carriage clock piece has color high lights.
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Rare Book
This is a rare book on Vienna clockmakers written by F. H. van Claterbos and published by Interbook International in 1979.
CLATERBROS (F.H. van Weijdom):
Viennese Clockmakers and what they left us
336 pages, 82 figs, 1979. The first 112 pages chart the development of Viennese clocks from 1683 to about 1870; the remainder is a very useful and detailed list of Viennese clockmakers.
During WWII, the author, a pilot in the Royal Netherlands Navy, commanding long range flying boats, took an interest in clocks when during this period lives depended on knowledge of the exact time. Much later, the author became fascinated by the Vienna regulators, of which the gut strings and weights to him almost radiated precision. Searching for literature on these clocks, he found none, but noticed that in Vienna oral information is available if one knows his way.
The main purpose of this book is to present the existing information about Viennese clockmakers in an easy accesible manner. The book includes a dictionary in which English translations can be found for the words used in the orgininal German tests. Most illustrations have been photographed by the author.
Buyer to pay shipping and handling of $5.00
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Continental and American Skeleton Clocks
Continental and American Skeleton Clocks by Derek Roberts - ISBN: 0887401821 Size: 9'' x 12'' - Illustrations: 398 illustrations - Pages: 245 - <p> <p> Book Description: The skeleton clock probably is the most fascinating of all clocks. It displays, by means of its fretted-out frame and lack of any protective case other than a glass dome, its inner-most workings. Therefore, this type of clock attracted the attention of some of the finest makers, particularly those working in France from circa 1760-1860 as it enabled them to display their skills so completely. It was for the same reason that it was popular with their wealthy clients, who could show off their latest acquisitions so perfectly. <p> A typical example of this is an amazing clock made by Sarton for the Duke of Lorraine, the dial of which swings to and fro so that wherever you are sitting in the room you can see it clearly. Other examples are the glass-plated clocks which apparently have no frame and often go for six months at a single winding, and clocks which show not only the time but also such things as day, date, month, moons, age and phases, sunrise and sunset, the time in other world locations, and even the equation of time(i.e. the difference between the sun's and our time). Many of these are more than clocks-they are great works of art. Numerous examples, including the products of countries such as France, Holland, Austria, and America are included and fully illustrated, frequently in color, in this book. There is a chapter on modern skeleton clocks that shows that fine clockmaking still is very much alive and well. The fascinating information on skeleton clocks made in America is the first full account to be published in over a decade.
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Watches by Cecil Clutton and George Daniels
I am happy to offer this great book on watches. The 597 illustrations have been planned to cover all the important and many less important types of watch, and are about equally divided between their exteriors and interiors.<p> <p> The reader may be surprised not to find more line-drawings of escapements, but the authors decided on the bold step of replacing these by large-scale photographs of the escapements, separately mounted, which they believe will give a better idea of the mechanism." WATCHES by Cecil Clutton and George Daniels, The Viking Press, NY, 1965 First Edition. "The historical section of the book gives equal importance to the decorative and mechanical aspect of watches, presented in a way which will appeal to a wide range of readers; and it cover their whole history from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. But whereas the previous generation of collectors was most interested in decorative verge watches, the trend today is towards the precision watch, especially of the 1780-1830 period. While the earlier periods have by no means been neglected, it is in the later ones that the reader will find most that is likely to be new to him. For the growing class of technical-minded collectors, the technical section of the book seeks to five an insight into the minds of the great makers of the past in a way that perhaps has never been attempted before, by its critical approach to the various escapements." <p> <p> This authentic and comprehensive book is in-depth and will certainly satisfy the collector, dealer, or historian of antique watches. <p> <p> 9.1" x 12" hardback with dust cover in very good+ condition. 159 pages plus 621 black-and-white photographs in separate chapter.
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European Clocks, 1550-1830 - A Selection from the Bliss Collection
THE MUSEUM, New Series - Volume 20, Number 1 - Winter 1968. Published by the Newark Museum (softcover pamphlet with black & white illustrations - approx. 25 pages).
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American Clocks - Volume 3 by Tran Duy Ly
The long awaited American Clocks, Volume 3, will give you answers found in no other publication. While American Clocks, Volumes 1 and 2, are the mainstay references needed for most collectors, Tran Duy Ly finally fills the information gap with American Clocks, Volume 3. Now you will have access to hard to find information about Beehive, Column & Cornice, Column & Splat, Connecticut Shelf, Cottage, Mirror, Ogee & Bevel, Pillar & Scroll, Steeple, Torsion Pendulum, Wagon Spring and other clock types. Looking at a Lux Pendulette? Got you covered. Ball Watch Company Clock? Just check in the index. Photos of clocks as well as details of their movements are provided. You will find prices that you can rely upon, for the clocks that are the most elusive to buy or sell, without feeling that you are on your own and waking in the middle of the night with buyer or seller remorse.
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