The Classic Elegance of the Brass Carriage Clock
Artisans have preferences as to what medium they use. Some carvers like stone. Others use wood. Each artist has a medium that he’s comfortable with, and most will tell you the medium affects the craft as much as any other component will.
Most Carriage Clock designers used brass. There are a lot of reasons [...]
Starting Your Collection of Antique Carriage Clocks
Harvey Mackay once said “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lose it you can never get it back”.
How true of the saying and how profound of the author. But while we can’t own [...]
Merging the Old and Contemporary with the Silver Carriage Clock
Like stamps or furniture, antique carriage clocks are a thing of beauty. Most of them used brightly polished metal. For carriage clocks, the more popular metals used are brass and silver. Over the years though, brass seems to have gained in rank compared to the latter. A common theory is that this was so because [...]
Romance with the French Carriage Clock
It’s a tryst with time that drives its popularity. People have had it at some point in their lives, to be so in love with the concept of ‘the moment’ and mortality that there is no bitterness involved in the lack of it but a continuous acceptance and gratitude of whatever Father Time can give. [...]
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