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On the bridge of the XIV and XV centuries mantelpiece and room clocks began often to be found. The first stuff for them was iron and the winding system of such clocks was founded on weights. The first mantel clocks were alike to tower clocks. They had the similar layout and elements.

People used wall's consoles to insert there clocks in the fifteenth century. Centuries later timber corbel became the element of the clocks' body. The style of it conformed to the entire style of the clock. In aristocratic homes it was one of the decor components of premises. In each house clocks played a significant role. They were an element of the design ensemble that was adhered to the fashion of an epoch. A few ages later appeared clock masters. They tried to give beautiful appearance to each clock they made. We can mark out such remarkable people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. Their clocks were definitely magnificent and there were no analogs in the world. But in the XVIII century different clockmakers began to remake the models of the most beautiful clocks.

The form of mantelpiece and desktop clocks is different. The form of clocks depended on the artistic taste and aim of clocks. With the Baroque epoch appeared carved components and other beauties on the face of clocks. Christian symbols were also applied when the impact of the church on social life increased. The most famous emblems were the cross and ciborium that was used as the shape of some clocks. Our company would like to propose to you various kinds of antique mantel clocks, even antique gibraltar clocks.

Floor clocks make independent kind of clocks. Diverse centuries left their traces on the shapes and forms of this kind of clocks. The first clocks were done near the middle of the XVII century. And still clockmakers create them supporting their constant elements of design. The peculiarity of the construction made this kind of clocks of a great height. The height of such clocks came up to tow hundred and seventy centimeters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first models of floor clocks were one hundred and sixty centimeters height.

The pointer of the age of the floor clocks can be the design of the cabinet. But the nineteenth century was the period when clockmakers returned to design of the preceding epochs. For the earliest period of floor clocks the smooth and slender cabinet is usual. The cabinet was done with widened foundation and was crowned with lucerne on the top with the glazed clock dial. The widened section of the cabinet was created for additional space for pendulum. The face of such cabinet was impregnated with oils and had a color of ebony.

On the European continent the most widespread material for clocks was oak. It was applied for its low price and firmness. Clockmakers made from it carcasses and plywood for clocks. Provincial cheap clocks were done of soft wood. The manufacturers gave them an appearance of marble facing. But we may also offer you antique German clocks.

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