Dating Early Antique Longcase Clocks
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Nov. 2020

In my next three posts I am going to give some tips on how to date early antique clocks. We will look at different date ranges to make it a little easier. It can be quite difficult dating early 18th century longcase clocks because the brass dials were square before 1720 but about this date an arch top was added to London clocks​.......Read More. 

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