antique brass clocks

How to restore antique opera glasses

A round of calls and e-mails to area clock-repair shops turned up one person interested in taking on a job like yours: John A. Stephens Jr., who runs Stephens & Stephens, a clock shop in Havre de Grace, Md. (410-939-3334; www.clockology.com). Gary ...

Peirce Mansion volunteers finish latest phase of restoration

Friends of the Peirce Mansion Restoration Committee have volunteered thousands of hours and spent thousands of dollars raised through antique book sales and special event rentals to restore the 1893 Victorian-Era home to its former glory. They'll ...

X-ray reveals Western clock given to Tokugawa Ieyasu made in Belgium, not Spain

British antique clock expert David Thompson wrote a research paper on the discovery. A replica is now being This oldest Western clock in Japan is a brass item 21.5 centimeters high, 12.5 cm wide and weighs about 2.8 kilograms. The Spanish sovereign ...

Buffalo Central Terminal Treasures

The most noted example was several years ago when it raised $25,000 to get the original concourse clock from a Chicago antique dealer. More recently, there was an on line fundraising effort to get a light fixture back when it came up for sale in a ...

An Urban Archaeologist Lets Go

Or the 10-foot-diameter antique brass-and-glass grand chandelier, circa 1918. “The design of this massive Nonetheless, rare remains the plutocrat with a mantelpiece broad enough to support a 10-foot-high train-station clock. I didn't think it ...

The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair at Blenheim Palace

The very best of every discipline is showcased including furniture, pictures, silver, early needlework, antique boxes, sculpture, clocks and barometers, carpets and textiles, jewellery, Oriental and English ceramics, garden ornaments and many other ...

Collectors want discontinued technology

Cowles Syndicate Inc. This strange brass object is an early stock ticker tape, a very unusual collectible that can be displayed like a piece of sculpture. It auctioned for $2,460. Collectors are searching for antique and vintage items related to ...

The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair at Blenheim Palace

The very best of every discipline is showcased including furniture, pictures, silver, early needlework, antique boxes, sculpture, clocks and barometers ... extremely rare late 17th century English brass chandelier dated 1688. Collectors of ceramics ...

Antique Appraisal Day planned in Franklin, April 12

FRANKLIN – The Franklin Historical Museum, 80 West Central St., Franklin, will host an Antique Appraisal ... paintings and prints, lamps, clocks, decorative accessories; Hummels and music boxes, Sterling silver, pewter and brass, American, Victorian ...

X-ray reveals Western clock given to Tokugawa Ieyasu made in Belgium, not Spain

British antique clock expert David Thompson wrote a research paper on the ... This oldest Western clock in Japan is a brass item 21.5 centimeters high, 12.5 cm wide and weighs about 2.8 kilograms. The Spanish sovereign gave it to Ieyasu as a token of ...

How to restore antique opera glasses

A round of calls and e-mails to area clock-repair shops turned up one person ... noted in an e-mail that antique opera glasses often feature mother of pearl and gilt brass (brass with a gold wash), so it’s important not to use any harsh chemicals.

Antiques: Story linking painter's box to Winston Churchill is weak

My research tells me it was made by the Ansonia Clock Co. of Ansonia, Connecticut, about 1910. It’s 30 centimetres high, in very good condition and retains a brass tacked-on label ... John Sewell is an antiques and fine art appraiser.