Q. I have a banjo clock made by the famous clockmaker Seth Thomas. I remember this clock from my earliest childhood, and it runs perfectly. I would love to know the identity of the ships depicted on ...

In 1802, Simon Willard was so proud of his newly patented Banjo clock that he decided to tell everyone about it. So he advertised the words, “Willard’s Patent,” on every Banjo clock he made. That may ...

Appraisal: John Sawin Lyre Banjo Clock, ca. 1825, from Birmingham, Hour 3. Watch Gary R. Sullivan's appraisal of an 1825 John Sawin Lyre Banjo Clock, in Birmingham, Hour 3.

Collecting vintage clocks or watches isn't about marking time. At least not time as you or I normally think of -- minutes and hours measured by a watch's tick or a grandfather clock's chime. You don't ...

Inside the 1814 grandfather clock, he installed a new seat board, the platform on which the clock's mechanism rests, and replaced the original cables. "Today, you can't get anything to last two years.

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Here`s a trivia question: What was the original name of the grandfather clock? In the 17th Century, it was called a case clock. Not until 1875, when a song titled ”My Grandfather`s Clock” became ...