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    • Bracket ClocksBracket Clocks. A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term originated with small weight-driven pendulum clocks (sometimes called ‘true bracket clocks’) that had to be mounted on a bracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights. When spring-driven clocks were developed, which didn’t require hanging weights to power them, they continued to be made in the bracket style. Often they are composed of two matching pieces created as an ensemble: the clock and its small decorative shelf. They are almost always made of wood, often ebony, and often ornamented with ormolu mounts, brass inlay, wood or tortoise shell veneer, or decorative varnish. Since in their day clocks were expensive, and a household would not have one in every room, bracket clocks usually had handles to carry them from room to room. These clocks were almost always repeaters, that is striking clocks which could be made to repeat the striking of the hours at the pull of a lever or cord. This feature was used before artificial illumination to tell what time it was at night. However, because they were often used in bedrooms where the…
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Bracket Clocks

Bracket Clocks. A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term originated with small weight-driven pendulum clocks (sometimes called ‘true bracket clocks’) that had to be mounted on a bracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights. When spring-driven clocks were developed, which didn’t require hanging weights to power them, they continued to be made in the bracket style. Often they are composed of two matching pieces created as an ensemble: the clock and its small decorative shelf. They are almost always made of wood, often ebony, and often ornamented with ormolu mounts, brass inlay, wood or tortoise shell veneer, or decorative varnish. Since in their day clocks were expensive, and a household would not have one in every room, bracket clocks usually had handles to carry them from room to room.

These clocks were almost always repeaters, that is striking clocks which could be made to repeat the striking of the hours at the pull of a lever or cord. This feature was used before artificial illumination to tell what time it was at night. However, because they were often used in bedrooms where the hourly striking of the bell could disturb sleepers, they either had a knob to silence the hourly striking, or did not strike on the hour at all but only at the pull of the cord. These were called ‘silent pull repeaters’. Reference: Wikipedia

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Chinese Bracket Clocks

Below are some examples, information and price guides to Chinese bracket clocks including a Chinese export mother of pearl clock from the 19th century.  
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND GILT METAL MOUNTED QUARTER STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
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18th Century Bracket Clocks

Below are some examples, information, history and price guides to 18th century bracket clocks including a musical bracket clock with calendar and a George III bracket clock by Norton.  
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A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted turtleshell quarter striking musical bracket clock, retailed in Paris, Swiss, circa 1765
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Musical Bracket Clocks

Below are some examples, information, history and price guides to antique and vintage musical bracket clocks including a Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted turtleshell clock and a musical clock by Thomas…
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