COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - Ella Benton fell in love in Paris in 2015. Not with her husband, in this particular reference, but with a clock. A curvaceous, charming thing she came across in a dusty ...

Longcase Clocks. Prior to Work popularizing a colloquial term, grandfather clocks were known as longcase or tall case clocks. Although pendulum mechanisms had been used in clocks—a development ...

Longcase Clocks. Prior to Work popularizing a colloquial term, grandfather clocks were known as longcase or tall case clocks.

Longcase clocks, even the battered, dusty and stored-in-the-garage-because-it-doesn't-work variety, can be worth from hundreds to tens of thousands of pounds, according to a specialist.

Inside Kings Court Antiques, Perry has several clocks — some dating back to the 1600s — tall-case or longcase clocks, as well as a few barometers, on display in the front of the shop.

This is the dial of my pine-cased longcase clock. This style of dial with arabic numbers is typical of longcase clocks made between 1800-1820. This dial can be fairly accurately dated at around ...