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	150 Years of Electric Horology by Crum and Keller - PUB146 There has been a gap in the horological literature with respect to the companies that made electrical clocks and watches. This book, in conjunction with an exhibition held at the NAWCC National Convention in 1992, is the first attempt to fill that gap. It provides information on 61 companies that made electric clocks and watches. Organized alphabetically by company name, a well-written narrative describes the history of each firm. Technical information is held to a minimum while the the compa... $15.00     View Details Add To Cart
	2007 Clock & Watch Trademark Index of European Origin - 0963166948 Clock & Watch Trademark Index of European Origin is an extremely valuable tool for the identification and dating of European clocks and watches. Over 9,000 marks are presented and organized by origin. Austrian, Viennese, English, French, German, and Swiss have dedicated sections. Some electric clocks are also addressed. Numerous appendices provide additional information. The index of manufacturers is particularly helpful. $42.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A Guide to Dating English Antique Clocks: The Wetherfield Collection - 0719803608 A Guide to Dating English Antique Clocks provides a unique pictorial records, as well as collated information, to help dealers and collectors to date English clocks by their case styles. Using examples from the famous Wetherfield collection - perhaps the greatest collection of entirely English domestic clocks ever made by a private collector - there are 220 separate photographs showing the whole range of designs. The longcase series is very representative and to fill gaps in the historical re... $18.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A Life with Antique Clocks by Derek Roberts - 076433378X Step into the private world of Derek Roberts, an eminent antique clock dealer since the 1960s to the present who has written eight books covering many aspects of the subject. Revisit an era when clocks, and antiques in general, were plentiful and modestly priced and compare with today, when good examples are difficult to find and higher priced. Clear advice is given on buying and selling clocks, including buying, researching, restoring, and conserving, and then documenting them prior to sale.... $21.59     View Details Add To Cart
	Advertising Clocks: America's Timeless Heritage - 0887407900 Of all the forms advertising has taken through the years, few have been as effective as those found on the dials of America's clocks. People want to know what time it is, and advertisers found creative ways to give them the time and a message from their sponsors. The results are sought after by collectors around the world. For the first time, Mike Bruner has gathered together many of these examples of advertising ingenuity in one beautiful volume. From the wooden mechanical examples of... $22.75     View Details Add To Cart
	American Clockmakers & Watchmakers by Spittler - 0930163728 American Clockmakers & Watchmakers by Sonya & Thomas Spittler and Chris Bailey is the most comprehensive and easiest to use research source ever published concerning the individuals and firms involved in making America's clocks and watches. Its sheer size alone is a testament to the thoroughness of the project, almost doubling the entries found in any other like publication. American Clockmakers & Watchmakers is an A - Z list intended to provide the collector or researcher information about t... $34.49     View Details Add To Cart
	American Shelf and Wall Clocks: A Pictorial History for Collectors by Robert W.D. Ball - 0764309056 In this historical overview, Robert W.D. Ball has captured in photographs and test the important contribution made by American Clockmakers to the history of the American colonies and the United States. American Shelf and Wall Clocks: A Pictorial History for collectors spans the centuries of American clockmaking, not only by individual name and make by with illustrations of the countless styles that were incorporated into the cabinet maker's art. Just as today's consumer searches fo... $50.49     View Details Add To Cart
	Anniversary Clock Identification By Mervyn Passmore - 0907109047 Collectors, dealers and restorers of these clocks know how vital it is to identify the movement fitted to an Anniversary or 400 day Clock, whether it be to classify or value it, or to be able to select the correct parts. Without the correct suspension wire or unit, the clock will probably run but will not keep the right time. Mervyn Passmore has devised a unique way to identify the manufacturer and model of these clock movements quickly and accurately, using a combination of maker's names and... $23.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Ansonia Clock Catalog 1895 Supplementary Catalogue - 0930163079 This Ansonia Clock Catalog 1895 Supplementary Catalogue is a 1988 reprint from Arlington Books. The booklet is 40 pages and must present around 200 clocks and clock dials. $12.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Ansonia Clock Co. 1894 - 1895 Catalog - PUB266 Nicely accomplished reprinting of Ansonia's 1894 - 1895 clock catalog. It's 168 pages includes Antique Hall Clocks, Automatic Novelties, Black Walnut Hanging Clocks, Black Walnut Mantel Clocks, Brass and Bronze Clock Sets, Brass Hanging Clocks, Bronze Figural Clocks, Bronze Candelabra, Bronze Figurines, Bronze Pitchers, Bronze Swinging Clocks, Cabinet Clocks, Clock Material, Enameled Iron Clocks, Marble Clocks, Marine Lever Clocks, Mercurial Pendulum, Office Clocks, Onyx Clocks, Porcelain Clo... $13.89     View Details Add To Cart
	Ansonia Clock Company 1920 Catalog Reprint - 0930163036 This quality reprint of Ansonia's 1920 product catalog features about 250 clocks of numerous types on 58 pages. Included are automobile, hanging, boudoir, brass, cabinet, chime, crystal regulator, drop octagon, foyer, mahogany alarm, marble, marine lever, nickle alarm, novelty, office, onyx, standing hall, swing, tambour mahogany clocks and watches. 1920 prices are also given. $13.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Antique British Clocks - A Buyer's Guide by Brian Loomes - 0709046111 From the foreword: "This book sets out to answer all the questions a beginner might wish to ask, if only he could think of them all. I have been a dealer in antique clocks for twenty-five years. In that time I have attempted to answer every question asked by every potential customer to the best of my ability. There were a lot of them and some defeated me. It occurred to me what a lot of breath I might save if it were possible to condense all these questions and answers into a single book, for... $35.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Autobiography of Chauncey Jerome - History of the American Clock Business - 0608416673 During his lifetime, Chauncey Jerome became better known around the world than any American clock manufacturer of his day. Through ingenuity Jerome built a clock making concern that by 1850 was annually producing more than half the clocks being made in the entire United States. Six year thereafter his empire crumbled under financial strain, leaving him penniless. Eight years before his death in 1868, Jerome published an autobiography, intertwined with a history of the American clock making... $8.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Beautiful Vienna Regulators of the 19th Century - PUB293 Beautiful Vienna Regulators of the 19th Century features 101 Vienna Regulators from the collection of Victor Kochaver. It was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the 20th Annual NAWCC Seminar. The book itself is nearly as beautiful as the clocks it features. The photographs are excellent; each clock is presented in at least one full frontal photograph. Additional photos are used to present movements and special design features of interest. The text commences with a foreword ... $47.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Black Forest Clocks by Rick Ortenburger - 088740300X Craftsmen have been tracking time for over 300 years in the Black Forest area of Germany. Cuckoo and singing bird clocks, early glass bell, trumpeter, Jockele, animation, and picture frame clocks all have been made in the Black Forest area by local clockmakers. Rick Ortenburger's important study traces the development of the Black Forest clock industry between about 1700 and 1930. He provides useful information that will meet the collectors' need and increase the appreciation of the beauti... $59.95     View Details Add To Cart
	British Longcase Clocks by Derek Roberts - 0887402305 The longcase clock has been a part of the Englishman's home for some 300 years and has gained a place in his heart seldom if every achieved by any other domestic item. An example of its importance in family life is that it, with the bed and the house, was nearly always mentioned specifically in the will. In Derek Roberts' important book, readers find a wealth of valuable information detailing the British origins, evolution, and wide range of longcase clocks that have been produced s... $67.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Busiest House in America 1889 Illustrated Catalogue - PUB148 This is a big catalog (472 pages) and it has a slew of products in it. Silver, particularly Rogers Bros, Clocks from Waterbury, Seth Thomas, Ithaca Calendar, and Gilbert Co., pocket watches with Waltham and Illinois Watch Co. movements, walking canes and fancy umbrellas, fountain pens by Peerless and Crown, pocket toothpicks, and lots of jewelry are all beautifully illustrated. Printed 30 years ago in 1974, the covers have faded somewhat. $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	C Grivolas 1910 400-Day Pendulum Clock Catalog Reprint - PUB129 La pendule 400 jours est sans contredit la pendule de l'avenir .... The 400 Day Clock is indisputably the clock of the future. Claude Grivolas is the only known French manufacturer of torsion pendulum 400-day clocks. This reprint of Grivolas' 1910 catalog provides the most comprehensive source presently available about his life and work. The catalog is supplemented with a brief history in English by John Hubby. The actual catalog, 44 pages in its entirety, is in French and illustrat... $13.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Carriage and Other Traveling Clocks - 0887404545 The beauty of carriage clocks and their accompanying cases is an integral part of their design, but one aspect-their intricate movements-also displays solutions to mechanical problems that only the genius designer could solve. In this major work by an expert clock historian and restorer, the reader will find over 400 exquisite color and 285 black-and-white photographs of hundreds of traveling clocks, as well as the explanations of all the major designers' work from the 17th century forwar... $73.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Centuries of Style: Clocks - 1840131276 Man has marked the passage of the hours for centuries, and the history of measuring time goes back at least to the Ancient Egyptians. Horology is a fascinating hobby: All clocks can be admired simply as things of beauty or studied mechanically. Finely crafted with breathtaking precision, the clocks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are among the most beautiful ever made. the works of Thomas Tompion and John Harrison, two of the foremost clockmakers of the era, are outstanding bot... $6.50     View Details Add To Cart

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