Description
Product ID: | 9780719842528 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Maintaining Longcase Clocks |
Subtitle: | An Owner's Guide to Maintenance, Restoration and Conservation |
Authors: | Author: Austin Jordan, Nigel Barnes |
Page Count: | 192 |
Subjects: | Other manufacturing technologies, Clocks, chronometers & watches (horology), Antique clocks, musical boxes and automata, Antique clocks, watches, musical boxes & automata |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Longcase clocks were invidually hand-made during the golden age of change that took place between the late seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Longcase clocks with their seventeenth century clock-making technology were innovative and incorporated an accurate pendulum clock within an attractive piece of domestic furnishing. This invaluable book is essential reading for all those who own and collect longcase clocks as well as clock repairers, horologists and conservationists. Longcase clocks were invidually hand-made during the golden age of change that took place between the late seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Longcase clocks with their seventeenth century clock-making technology were innovative and incorporated an accurate pendulum clock within an attractive piece of domestic furnishing. This invaluable book is essential reading for all those who own and collect longcase clocks as well as clock repairers, horologists and conservationists. |
Imprint Name: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
Publisher Name: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-03-01 |