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Antique Wall Clocks
Antique wall clocks have been around for a very long time. A wall clock is any clock that has been designed to hang on the wall, and the first wall clocks were made in the late 1700s in England. The first true wall clock was the round-dial clock that came about after the introduction of similar Tavern Clocks that were hung in public houses and Inns in the early 1700s.
In the United States the wall clock was first made around the end of the 1700s. The one thing the Americans were very good at was mass-production and by the mid 1800s the Swiss were wondering just how the American clock and watch making industry could churn out so many timepieces. The answer was that the Americans had mastered the art of mass producing small machine made parts, unlike the Swiss who were still making parts by hand.
Wall clocks is really a catch-all name for various other types of clocks. There are many types of antique wall clocks including cuckoo clocks, banjo clocks, tavern clocks, advertising clocks, regulator clocks and many others.
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