Today a lot of internet pages offer antique clocks. In the XXI century not only aristocratic people may buy it but it became also a hobby of usual persons.

On the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantel and room clocks began usually to be found. Iron was the stuff for such clocks at that time and they were wound with the assistance of loads. Firstly they didn't differ from tower clocks by their layout and structure components.

In the XV century period clocks were put in walls' consoles. Wooden console became a component of the frame of clocks after several centuries and it was stylized to the entire clocks design. In aristocratic houses it was 1 of the decor elements of premises. In every apartment clocks played an important role. They were a part of the design ensemble that was stuck to the fashion of an epoch. The most notable asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also developed the artistic appearance of their clocks. They worked over their personal models and made clocks in the unequalled prototypes. Only at the end of the eighteenth century the remakes of the most notable models were found.

The shape of mantelpiece and desktop clocks is different. The shape of clocks depended on the artistic taste and purpose of clocks. For example fretted components appeared with the beginning of Baroque epoch. Christian emblems were also used when the influence of the church on people's life became stronger. The cross and ciborium shapes were used for some clocks. You will choose among a great amount of different old antique mantel clocks, even antique unmarked clock that are presented on our page.

Floor clocks create independent group of clocks. Different epochs left their traces on the shapes and forms of this kind of clocks. This kind of clocks appeared in the XVII and after two hundred years they were kept on production and saved their constant components of design. The height of such clocks was very considerable. Two hundred and seventy centimeters was a usual height for such clocks 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 exactly in the nineteenth century some producers borrowed or reproduced the old elements for floor clocks of earlier centuries. For the first period of floor clocks the smooth and slim cabinet is typical. It contained wide foundation and lucerne for the mechanism on the top with the glassed-in clock dial plate. The widened part of the cabinet was created for additional space for pendulum. The surface of this 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 used for its cheapness and solidity. People made from it carcasses and veneer for clocks. Provincial cheap clocks were done of soft wood. The manufacturers gave them an appearance of marble facing. Our company also proposes you to get German antique clocks.