antique wood carved clocks

The Prospectors

But at the peak of our despondency we saw it: the lift, rising like a mirage out of the timber woods, its four dark cables striping the red sunset. The Evergreen Lodge, we'd heard, had original stonework, carved from five thousand pounds of native ...

Southwest Missouri offers plenty of oddly fun stops on Ozarks road trip

Turns out those playful pole-topping sculptures are the work of Lowell Davis, the artist who in recent years has saved and transported antique buildings to his circa 1930s town on a former corn patch outside Carthage. It's true the museum has a ...

Local auctions sparked interest for former Chillicothean to launch exciting ...

If you watch “Antiques Roadshow” with any regularity, it's likely that you've seen Chillicothe native Jason Preston on some of the episodes, appraising items that someone has brought to the show. As a young boy, Jason loved attending auctions around ...

Canines to Cannabis in Artist Huma Bhabha's New Show

“It's an old firehouse, so this is probably where the fire engines were kept and washed,” said Huma Bhahba as we roamed into her expansive studio in Poughkeepsie, New York. Born in Karachi Originally carved from cork, the figure's lines and ...

Crafts, tours bring history up close at Old Economy Village

Jacob Henrici, a member of the religious community that called western Pennsylvania home for most of the 19th century, received the intricately carved box as a gift from his friends in the 1880s. It's unique not only for its carvings of grapes and ...

Antiques | Finding unexpected treasure

In 1983, Hekman was bought by the Howard Miller Clock Co. of Zeeland, Michigan, and in 1993, Hekman bought a company noted for its upholstered furniture. The company is •Wood carving figure, gnome miner, on rock, Black Forest, Switzerland, c. 1900 ...

Brazelton Lots Spice Up Northeast Auctions Sale

It has a black leather writing surface over three aligned drawers with pewter banding within ebonized wood borders, silvered metal satyr-head mounts on the legs, and foliage on the hoof feet, and is stamped “B. Simoneaux” and “JME.” An old master oil ...

On the block: Rare Weber box highlights upcoming Horst auction

Horst Auction Center in Ephrata is kicking off the summer with its huge rare-antique catalog sale on June ... is a Wilhelm Schimmel carved squirrel, circa 1870-1900. Lot 183, this wood carving is of a seated squirrel holding a reddish-brown nut.

Crafts, tours bring history up close at Old Economy Village

Jacob Henrici, a member of the religious community that called western Pennsylvania home for most of the 19th century, received the intricately carved box as a gift from ... It’s like a cuckoo clock,” said David Miller, an educator at Old Economy ...

Antiques | Finding unexpected treasure

Like any antique ... Miller Clock Co. of Zeeland, Michigan, and in 1993, Hekman bought a company noted for its upholstered furniture. The company is still in business. Your cabinet was made by Hekman about 1950 and is worth $200 to $300. •Wood carving ...