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The first strides in making mantel clocks were found in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They were created of iron and were wound with the help of weight. The very first mantel clocks were alike to tower clocks. They had the same scheme and elements.

In the Gothic epoch clocks were put in walls' consoles. Wooden console became a part of the frame of clocks after a few ages and it was stylized to the whole clocks ensemble. Of course, in the Middle ages and later it was one of the most important parts of a room's decoration. Every home adhered to the trend that was fashionable during the age and a clock was a part of the entire design ensemble of the house. Later on professional clockmakers appeared. Such people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann began to work over the appearance of their clocks. Their clocks were definitely magnificent and there were no analogs in the world. Only at the end of the eighteenth century the remakes of the most remarkable exemplars were found.

The form of mantelpiece and desktop clocks is different. The form of clocks depended on the artistic taste and purpose of clocks. With the Baroque epoch appeared fretted components and other beauties on the face of clocks. With the augmenting of the influence of the church on dwelling of people, different Christian emblems appeared on clocks. The most popular symbols were the cross and ciborium that was applied as the form of some clocks. You can select among a large amount of different old antique mantel clocks, even antique blick time clock tiger oak rare that are presented on our page.

Floor clocks usually separated to the independent kind of clocks. Diverse epochs left their impresses on the shapes and forms of this kind of clocks. The first clocks were made approximately in the middle of the XVII century. And still clock masters create them keep up their constant elements of design. The height of such clocks was really great. In XVIII and XIX centuries the height was near two hundred and seventy centimeters. The earliest clocks were considerably lower.

The architecture of the cabinet reveals the epoch when this or that clock were created. But the XIX century was the period of time when clock masters returned to styles of the preceding centuries. The first periods of clock making are notable for glabrous and slender cabinets of clocks. It contained widened base and lucerne for the device on the top with the glassed-in clock dial plate. The wide part of the cabinet was created for extra space for pendulum. The face of such cabinet was impregnated with oil and had a color of ebony.

On the European continent oak was rather spread. It was a great and rather low-priced stuff that is appropriate not only for frames of the clocks' cabinets but also as plywood. Provincial cheap clocks were made of soft wood. The clockmakers gave them a look of marble facing. Our business firm also suggests you to get antique German clocks.