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Brass Dial Clocks by Brian Loomes Brass Dial Clocks
Brian Loomes
The Book
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 brass dial clock.
The development of dial and case style is explained in non-technical detail with a massive eight hundred photographs, many taken purposely for this book. Particular concentration is given to the origins and development of provincial clockmaking, with London examples used principally as a standard against which to measure provincial work. Regional trends and tastes in dials and cases are identified and explained in detail.
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. Required reading for the owner of any brass dial clock as well as collectors and dealers.
This lavishly-illustrated book deals in great detail with antique British clocks with brass dials, as well as American examples which developed from British beginnings.
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: 448
Illustrations: 48 col. 711 b&w.
Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club
ISBN: 1 85149 221 6
Price: $79.50
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