How to Collect Antique English Grandfather Clocks

"Here's another nice example of a 19th century early 19th century English grandfathers clock it does need a little bit of work and you'll find that when you get into this age you can find them in a various conditions. This one hasn't been touched yet and at some point I plan on having reconditioned but right now I just wanted to show you a nice example of an early English grandfathers clock. This grandfather clock in particular happens to have brass work the dial I have taken the top off so the dial isn't in quit evenly, just because of the way I set the clock back in, I need to readjust it. So that's something to think about when you go holding the face off of this off of your grandfathers clock, usually the bonnet tops will roll right out in front but you need to have somebody here to help stabilize it. This is average about 7 feet tall not unusual for grandfather clocks but this era this is all done in oak, English oak and you can see on the front, I can open up just to give you an idea of. This is a medal face, signed this was owned by Griffan Owen at some point and I can't quit make it out what this is. A family that or maker that made this clock with great flower decorations painted, you can see there's a little bit of ware going on here but that's not unusual and it doesn't take away, great flower design in each corner with a second hand here. And the clock is like I said is brass work which was popular in the early and mid 1800's so this is the inside of the clock, and if you look in the center you have a little inlayed key hole here and you have a shorter opening that we saw earlier and these are where you would suspend your weights. These weights weigh at least 10 pounds or more and you have 2 of these weights that work the pendulum, one for your clock to run the hour and the other for your chime so they're heavy heavy weights. So these belong on the inside and I haven't set them in and the rest is just the base of the clock is very typical of English works, so this is an example of a nice 19th century English grandfather clock."