If you desire to buy antique clocks we would like to propose them to you. In the XXI century not only aristocratic persons may get it but it became also an avocation of usual people.

The first strides in creating mantel clocks were found in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first material for clocks was iron and the winding mechanism of such clocks was based on loads. The very first mantel clocks were alike to tower clocks. They had the same scheme and elements.

People applied wall's consoles to put in clocks in the Gothic epoch. Later on a wooden console became a part of clocks' body and was designed the same style and ornament as clocks had. In rich homes it was 1 of the decor components of a room. Every house stuck to the trend that was fashionable during the age and a clock was an element of the whole design composition of the house. The most notable asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also worked over the artistic appearance of the clocks. Their clocks were really magnificent and there were no analogs in the world. But in the XVIII century diverse clock masters began to remake the models of the most remarkable clocks.

The form of mantelpiece and desktop clocks is various. Artistic taste and aim of clocks ordered the form to a master. For example carved elements appeared with the beginning of Baroque epoch. Strong influence of the church was reflected on the applying of Christian emblems. The most popular emblems were the cross and ciborium that was applied as the shape of some clocks. On our internet page you can get as many antique mantel clocks, even antique blick time clock tiger oak as you like.

One more independent kind of clocks is floor clocks. The functional and design elements of different ages have been reflected on clocks' shape and form. Clockmakers started to make them in the middle of the seventeenth century and today they are still made owing to their stylistic features. The height of such clocks was really considerable. The height of these clocks came up to 270 centimeters in the XVIII and XIX centuries. The first models of floor clocks were one hundred and sixty centimeters height.

The architecture of the cabinet shows the age when this or that clock were created. But exactly in the nineteenth century some producers took or reproduced the old elements for floor clocks of earlier centuries. For the first period of floor clocks the smooth and slender cabinet is typical. There were glassed-in clock dial plates, wide foundation and lucerne in the cabinet. The widened section of the cabinet was created for extra space for pendulum. The surface of such cabinet was impregnated with oil and had a color of ebony.

In Europe the most widespread stuff for clocks was oak. It was a low-priced and firm material for clocks and it was applied not only for frames but also for veneer making. Provincial clock masters did cheap products and revered them with soft timber that has an appearance of marble. But we can also suggest you German antique clocks.