How to Collect Antique Banjo Clocks

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Part of the video series: Antiques: Collecting 19th Century Clocks

Summary: Collecting antique banjo clocks; features of banjo clocks and what to look for in this free video from an antiques expert.

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Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more

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How to Collect Antique Banjo Clocks

Here's another example of a nice banjo clock on the scale it's a less expensive banjo clock but made by New Haven clock company a late 19th century they made them well into the early 1900's and still producing them but this is a nice example. And it's one of the clocks that seems to run for me all the time they usually had glass with printed this is a printed picture of Mt Vernon and you'll see reverse painting ones on the earlier examples and usually these clocks would open up and you'd have your dial. And inside your pendulum and here to you'll see reverse painting this is a reverse clock so you don't see this, this is just a print rather than a reverse painting underneath this piece of glass. These are really typical for the banjo clocks they look like they have clock with not always an ego filigree but a non filigree also, you can find them in a variety of different sizes this is a nice example, not to large and not to small. A later example but it's just a nice example of a banjo clock so you can get it an idea what a banjo clock looks like. I enjoy this clock because it works very well and you have the hour and half hour chime on this clock too, this is also an 8 day clock so it'll run all week for you, you don't have to wind it every night so that's a nice feature about this particular New Haven clock.

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