Antique collectable clocks are an investment in time. They allow you to enjoy the benefits and brilliance of old world artisanship and the beauty of their work. Antique mantel clocks are a wonderful way to acquire collectible art and enhance your home with an investment both in beauty and value. Here, we specialize in small mantel clocks that can fit on your mantel piece or shelf, adding charm to your home as well as increasing in value over the years. Try buying a new one and see what it is worth the following week. Not much. With an antique collectible mantel clock, you can benefit from both beauty and an investment that over time will increase in value for you or your children --- a beautiful and collectible clock that you can pass down to others in your family as an heirloom.
Mantel clocks are normally placed on shelves or fireplaces and are generally small and portable. This style of antique clock was originally developed in France in the 1750s and many were constructed from any combination of gilt metal such as ormolu (bronze with 7% gold), porcelain and/or wood. Most of these antique mantel clocks were very ornately decorated works. They were key wound and have a swinging pendulum to keep time. Most were also highly decorative clocks.
The mantel clock is different from the wall version, whose movements were upward fixed on the back board. Mantel clock movements lay on a seat board. The 1790s saw mantel clocks being sold in America. Boston was the first area for the sale for an antique American clock.
Buying a collectable antique mantel clock from valuableclocks.com benefits you because not only is it reasonably priced but it is a running and working mantel clock. All of our antique mantel clocks have been tested, cleaned and restored where called for. Each antique clock is in excellent running condition, but you should expect them to have some wear from moving, wars, usage, storage etc. over the hundred or more years they have been around; however, there is nothing untoward that would prevent your enjoyment of these beautiful, unusual and decorative mantel clocks, objects of (functional) art.
You will also benefit by finding antique mantel clocks that are both attractive and elegant decorative items that will define your home with their classic addition at reasonable pricing. These classic mantel clocks provide the additional benefit of increasing in value over time, while a contemporary piece or decorative item usually will not.
As you may see from the photographs of the mantel clocks for sale here, we offer for sale unique and desirable antique mantel clocksthat range in price from exceptionally affordable decorative mantel clocks to those that are exceptionally rare. In every case the mantel clocks we offer for sale are pretty to look at and are excellent investments in time. The French mantel clocks are always desirable and very ornate. The American mantel clocks, such as Ansonia, tend to be more unadorned, usually of wood with some bronze or gilt metal garnishment. Especially desirable nowadays are Art Deco mantel clocks, and you can find all of these here at excellent prices. Prices are posted on the interior pages.
Your collectible mantel clock is ready to be enjoyed, is running and a good time keeper. All of our clocks have the easiest guarantee. We guarantee your complete right of return of them within 3 days of receipt. You just pay the shipping of the clock back to us in the same condition in which it was received and 100% of your purchase price, less our shipping, shall be refunded.
Antique and vintage items by their very nature are used items and will show signs of normal wear due to age and use. Please review more of this information on our "conditions of sale" page.
Raingo Fres, c 1830's Brilliant Ormolu Bronze On White Marble With Silk Suspension Mechanism
Ansonia Emperor Crystal Regulator Mantel Clock
Bauhaus Art Deco French with butterflies, Circa 1930's
French Boulle Style Circa 1890's
Stunning French Porcelain Clock By Famous Artist C.F. Petit Circa 1880s
Jacob Petit Porcelain clock from mid 1800's
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