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The first steps in making mantel clocks were found in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They were created of iron and were wound with the help of weight. The very first mantel clocks were similar to tower clocks. They had the same layout and components.

People used wall's consoles to insert there clocks in the fifteenth century. Later on a wood console became a part of clocks' frame and was mounted the same style and ornament as clocks had. Of course, in the Renaissance epoch and later it was 1 of the most important parts of a room's decoration. Every home adhered to the style that was fashionable during the epoch and a clock was an element of the entire design composition of the apartments. A few centuries later appeared clock masters. They sought to give face to every clock they created. We may mark out such notable people as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. They worked over their personal models and made clocks in the unique exemplars. In the eighteenth century appeared clockmakers that began to create copies from the most wonderful clocks they found.

The shape of mantel and desktop clocks is different. The form of clocks depended on the artistic taste and purpose of clocks. With the Baroque epoch revealed fretted components and other beauties on the face of clocks. Christian symbols were also applied when the impact of the church on social life became stronger. The cross and ciborium forms were applied for some clocks. On our website you can buy as many antique mantel clocks, even antique tall case clock as you like.

One more independent group of clocks is floor clocks. Diverse centuries left their traces on the shapes and forms of this kind of clocks. Clock masters began to produce them in the middle of the seventeenth century and now they are still made due to their design features. The peculiarity of the construction made this type of clocks of a great height. In XVIII and XIX centuries the height was approximately two hundred and seventy centimeters. The very first models of floor clocks were one hundred and sixty centimeters height.

The style of the cabinet shows the age when this or that clock were made. But the XIX century was the period of time when clockmakers went back to design of the preceding centuries. For the first period of floor clocks the glabrous and slim cabinet is usual. The cabinet was made with wide base and was crowned with lucerne on the top with the glazed clock dial. The central section of the cabinet was made so that the space for pendulum was left. Clockmakers impregnated the surface of the cabinet with oils and then it looked like ebony.

In Europe the most popular material for clocks was oak. It was a cheap and firm stuff for clocks and it was used not only for frames but also for veneer making. Cheap floor clocks were manufactured by provincial clock masters and were faced with soft timber that was similar with marble. You can also purchase antique German wall clocks on our web source.