From the foreword: "This book sets out to answer all the questions a beginner might wish to ask, if only he could think of them all. I have been a dealer in antique clocks for twenty-five years. In that time I have attempted to answer every question asked by every potential customer to the best of my ability. There were a lot of them and some defeated me. It occurred to me what a lot of breath I might save if it were possible to condense all these questions and answers into a single book, for no existing book approaches the subject from that point of view. This is the result. Antique British Clocks: A Buyer's Guide is divided into the following chapters: Dials: Style, Age and Quality
What Goes on Inside a Clock
Options
Woods, Colours, Shapes and Sizes
Other Weight-driven Clocks
Spring Clocks
Who Made the Clock and Does it Matter
Reproductions, Coppies, Marriages and Fakes
Where to Buy and How
Values and Prices
Restoring, Setting Up and Looking After Your Clock.
Antique British Clocks: A Buyer's Guide is a new, but now out-of-print hardcover in a quality sewn binding. Published in 1991 by Robert Hale, London.
Price: $35.50
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