The tall case clock otherwise known as a grandfather clock is much more than adevice that tells time. Before mass production, each tall case clock was unique and often embellished to make a grand ...
TO THEIR OWN HISTORY AS THE SEA OF CLOCKS COLLECTED HERE AT DELANEY. ANTIQUE CLOCKS IN WEST TOWNSEND STARTED IN ENGLAND. MY FATHER WAS TEACHING ON AN AIR FORCE BASE AND MY MOM WAS WITH THE RED CROSS.
The Rev. Herb Freeland, who recently moved from Virginia to Strasburg, is a relative newcomer to Lancaster County. One of his prized possessions is decidedly not. Freeland owns a tall-case clock that ...
Martin Shreiner, one of Lancaster's premier creators of “grandfather'' clocks, built and numbered 317 tall-case clocks over a period of four decades, beginning in 1789. He constructed his masterpiece, ...
John J. Snyder Jr. collected a hall-of-fame lineup of tall case clocks in his day. The works of John Fisher, Godfrey Lenhart and Jacob Hostetter, all clockmakers with York County connections, are part ...
More than 350 New Years have been rung in by a grandfather clock. The first one was made about 1650 in England, and by 1720 the clocks were being made in the American Colonies. The clocks have a face, ...
Once they stood in the old homes of Bethlehem, counting off time through much of the 18th and 19th centuries. Some tracked phases of the moon. Today, the tall-case clocks in the collection of the ...
A gentleman in Maine has asked for our help in finding a “Brass Wheel” Long case clock that was sold from Quoketaug"an Old Mystic Conn. family home about 1959– (for $5,000). It was a 1776, Thomas ...
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — Police say a Bremerton, Wash., man accused of trying to pawn a stolen grandfather clock has been charged with first-degree trafficking of stolen property. Bremerton police ...
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