Nowadays a lot of online sources propose antique clocks. In the XXI century not only rich people may buy it but it became also a hobby of usual persons.

The first strides in creating mantel clocks were found in the XIV and XV centuries. Clocks were created of iron and were wound with the help of load. Firstly they didn't differ from tower clocks by their layout and structure components.

In the Gothic epoch clocks were put in walls' consoles. Later on a wooden console became a part of clocks' frame and was designed the similar style and ornament as clocks had. Of course, in the Middle ages and later it was one of the most significant parts of a room's style. Every home stuck to the style that was fashionable during the epoch and a clock was an element of the entire design composition of the house. Several ages later appeared professional clockmakers. They tried to give beautiful appearance to each clock they made. We can signify such notable persons as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. They created real works of art and at that time they were unique exemplars that had no analogs on Earth. But in the eighteenth century different clock masters began to remake the prototypes of the most remarkable clocks.

The form of mantel and desktop clocks is various. Artistic taste and purpose of clocks dictated the form to a master. And when the Baroque epoch began specific shapes of the clocks' body appeared. Christian symbols were also applied when the impact of the church on social life became stronger. The most popular symbols were the cross and ciborium that was applied as the shape of some clocks. On our source you may purchase as many antique brass mantel clocks, even antique clock electric parts as you like.

One more independent group of clocks is floor clocks. This type of clocks experienced various designs and shapes of the epochs when they were done. This kind of clocks appeared in 1650-1660 and after 200 years they were continued to produce and saved their permanent components of design. The height of such clocks was very great. In eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the height was near 270 centimeters. The earliest floor clocks were lower.

The pointer of the age of the floor clocks may be the architecture of the cabinet. But sometimes you may find the clocks of the XIX century that are similar to clocks of the earlier times. It occurs because clockmakers went back to the styles of preceding ages. The glabrous and slender cabinet is the peculiarity of the first period of clock production. It included wide base and lucerne for the mechanism on the top with the glassed-in clock dial. The middle part of the cabinet was made so that the space for pendulum was created. Clock masters impregnated the face of the cabinet with oils and then it looked like ebony.

On the European continent the most popular material for clocks was oak. It was a great and rather low-priced material that is suitable not only for frames of the clocks' cabinets but also as plywood. Provincial cheap clocks were done of soft wood. The clockmakers gave them a look of marble facing. You can also buy antique German clocks on our web site.