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On the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantel and room clocks began often to be found. Iron was the stuff for such clocks at those times and they were wound with the assistance of loads. Firstly they didn't vary from tower clocks by their layout and construction components.

In the Middle ages persons applied walls' consoles where clocks were placed. Timber corbel became a component of the frame of clocks after a few ages and it was stylized to the whole clocks design. In rich homes it was one of the decor elements of premises. Every house adhered to the style that was fashionable during the age and a clock was an element of the whole design composition of the apartments. A few centuries later appeared professional clockmakers. They tried to give face to each clock they made. We can signify such notable people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. Their clocks were really marvelous and there were no analogs in the world. But in the XVIII century diverse clock masters began to copy the prototypes of the most beautiful clocks.

The form of mantelpiece and desktop clocks is different. The shape of clocks depended on the artistic taste and purpose of clocks. With the Baroque epoch appeared carved elements and other beauties on the facing of clocks. Christian symbols were also used when the impact of the church on social life increased. The cross and ciborium shapes were used for some clocks. On our website you can buy as many antique mantel clocks, even antique german cuckoo clock collections as you wish.

One more independent kind of clocks is floor clocks. Diverse centuries left their traces on the shapes and forms of this type of clocks. The first clocks were done near 1650-1660. And still clock masters make them keep up their constant elements of style. The specificity of the structure made this type of clocks of an amazing height. Two hundred and seventy centimeters was a usual height for such clocks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first exemplars of floor clocks were 160 centimeters height.

The style of the cabinet shows the age when this or that clock were made. But exactly in the nineteenth century some producers took or reproduced the old elements for floor clocks of earlier periods. For the first period of floor clocks the glabrous and slender cabinet is typical. There were glassed-in clock dial plates, widened foundation and lucerne in the cabinet. The central section of the cabinet was made so that the space for pendulum was created. The surface of the cabinet usually reminded ebony. It was achieved due to the saturation with oils.

In Europe oak was rather widespread. It was a low-priced and solid material for clocks and it was used not only for frames but also for veneer making. Provincial cheap clocks were done of soft wood. The clockmakers gave them a look of marble facing. Our business firm also proposes you to purchase antique German wall clocks.