Allan Smith Specialist in Antique Moonphase Longcase Clocks,
Antique Bracket Clocks & Barometers For Sale
My Antique Clocks Story:
As a small child, still in short trousers, I can remember, quite vividly, standing in front of my Great Aunt's Antique Grandfather Clock, after running an errand for her, sucking on a stripey "bullseye" boiled sweet and being SO impressed and overawed by the magnificent antique clock that dominated the whole room.
I distinctly remember saying to myself "when I'm grown up I'm having one of these".
Little did I realise that many years later, after a 5 year engineering apprenticeship, qualification as a Precision Engineer and with various Engineering and Management exams under my belt I would leave the Aerospace Industry in 1988 and turn my passion for antique clocks into, not just a business, but also a way of life. I am extraordinarily fortunate that my engineering background has blended so well with my passion for antique clocks and has produced a livelihood and lasting friendships throughout Britain, and indeed, the whole world.
I like to feel that I treat my customers the way I would wish to be treated myself and remind them that they're not just buying a clock they're buying my expertise in selecting the finest proportioned, most original, examples available, which are then sympathetically restored to the highest standards under my personal supervision, using only the very best restorers and materials.
Many of my customers have become personal friends and that's the way I like it. I do what I do because I love it. I'm VERY lucky. Great Aunt Dot's Antique Longcase Clock had Moonphases, which is what I specialise in. I wonder how my life would be if Great Aunt Dot hadn't had a longcase clock?
Allan Smith Antique Clocks
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View My Antique Clocks For Sale:
- Antique Longcase Mahogany Clocks For Sale: Antique mahogany longcase clocks can have brass dials with separate chapter rings and spandrels, engraved and silvered brass, or painted dials. They may be 30 hour, 8 day or month going ( sometimes even longer duration ) with any type of the foregoing dial types.
- Antique Longcase Oak Clocks For Sale: Oak was used for longcase clock case production from inception to the present day, and housed the entire range of movement/dial types but was really only used as carcass wood for the London examples.
- Antique Longcase Walnut Clocks For Sale: Walnut was used for longcase clock cases from the late 17C to the middle of the 18C when it was superseded by the fashion for, and availability of, mahogany.
- Antique Longcase Marquetry Clocks For Sale: Marquetry clocks are arguably the most sought after and, in general terms can be the most valued types of the genre, like for like, though some, later complicated clocks by sought after makers can easily eclipse them.
- Antique Longcase Lacquer Clocks For Sale: Lacquer was popular from the earliest ( late 17C ) longcase clock cases, with popularity dipping pre mid 18C with a revival in the late 18C. Not fashionable in the 19C so not many examples extant.
