How to Evaluate Collectible Mantle Clock Faces

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Now I will show you the inside of this clock, you can see the dials, there is a little bit of wear, has the same gold filagree with painted numbers on the, on the dial and wear here where they put the key, the keys in to wind the clock up and again the clock is wound up here on the right side and the weight gets pulled up here and this is a thirty hour clock where the, where the weight has to be wound every thirty, every twenty four hours, once a day you have to wind this and this will wind and do your hour on the left side you wind and it will do your chime and this one rings only on the hour and this is your dial, your pendulum which on these clocks is very long for a shelf clock and in the back here again, another thing that is really important, you see the directions and the paper, paper all still in really good condition on the back of this clock and you can see it says improved clock it is manufactured and sold by Chancey Boardman, Bristol Connecticut so we know where this clock came from, we know about the period that is was made and we know the people who produced this clock and what's nice about this, this particular paper backing is pretty much almost in really good condition with a little bit of wear on either side and this where you can see is, is good wear, it's wear that when the, the weight comes down in your, in your clock, when the clocks runs down those, the twenty four hours, those weights are rubbing right up against the back and so it is wearing down that paper, you think about a hundred and fifty years of winding this clock this paper has held up pretty well and that is not always the case with these shelf clocks so this particular, this shelf clock, the backing is in really good shape so that's a good look at the inside of this clock and you can see the backing on the mirror here, is this wooden to keep the oxidation of the mirror from getting oxidized so that?s a good look at another nineteenth century early shelf clock.

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