17th C London Lantern Clocks & Restorations
A Site for the Enthusiast…
Forty years of collecting and comprehensive restoration
of early clocks
NAWCC Member 71355
07595 180138 or email earlyclocks@gmail.com
New to the Collection…
Restoration
Brian Loomes Affiliated and Recommended…
Early Verge Escapement - Reconversion
Lantern clock balance and verge pendulum escapements reinstated from anchor.
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Dial Restoration and Replacement Period Hands
Gallery of examples... Click on image above
Brass dials repaired, resilvered and refinished.
Replacement dial work and associated engraving.
Gear, Pinion and Arbor Cutting. Replacement Verge Arbors
Period replacement parts sourced
And missing parts made.
Edward East 1/4 Striking Lantern Clock C1685
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Downloads & Special Interest
Peter Closon Lantern Clock Article
My study attributing a full sized London lantern clock (as surfaced - DEC 2009) as a product from the workshops of Peter Closon – ‘Neer Holburn Bridge’ London’, a prolific maker of these clocks from 1625-1660 in the Lothbury clockmakers’ district in London. The clock was sold on to a collector unrestored.
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About
A lifetime of interest and experience... NAWCC# 71355 since 1975
Now retired commercially, I have a modest but dynamic collection including a small stock of early clocks to trade, and take on early lantern clock and other early domestic clock projects on a part time basis.
I look forward to assisting those interested however I can.
I've been involved with antique clock restoration since a teenager in the
Now retired commercially, I have a modest but dynamic collection including a small stock of early clocks to trade, and take on early lantern clock and other early domestic clock projects on a part time basis.
I look forward to assisting those interested however I can.
I've been involved with antique clock restoration since a teenager in the 1970s, spending summers working with an uncle in Clerkenwell London learning horological skills. My father was a trained English cabinetmaker from whom I learned case work. During my undergraduate years and throughout my commercial scientific career, I remained active in the restoration and trading of earlier antique clocks. During my professional life I'd been lucky to have been involved with art history conservation projects with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale Museum of British Art, and other important museums. A member of the National Association of Clock Collectors for over 30 years, I've taken part in numerous technical, historical, a conservation seminars.
I split my time between the US and UK.