How to Collect Antique Metal Mantle Clocks

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

Summary: Antique Metal Mantle clocks; features, what to look for and more 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 Metal Mantle Clocks

Here's another example of 19th century this they produced a lot of these mantel clocks and this is actually is very heavy it's metal it' just got this really ornate vase type almost looks like a trophy that sits on top of it. Here you can see where the makers mark is on here, I'm trying to read it, it has these screws here that you take off to pull the back off and you can see the mechanism on it, we're not going to try to pull it off right now. But there's the makers mark they were mast produced made in late 1800's it's got nice brass works around the face you can see here where the roman numerals and the dials and the clock has a nice ring to it. This is a half hour you want it to ring on the hour it has a nice tone to it this clock has just been worked on, it'll ring on the half hour, here is your chime here, it rings on the hour and half hour and this is for your hour dial. This is a 30 hour clock some of them will come in 8 day but this one is 30 hour, this is another example with little brass filigree inlay down here of a late 19th century clock.

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