How many lantern clocks come up each year?

Around ten a year on Sellingantiques, carried between 21 different dealers. That's a wide spread of hands for so small an annual flow. The archive stands at 82 listings, split fairly evenly between the early English clocks and the later fusee revival.

What does 'and Later' mean in a title?

It flags that the clock isn't all of one date. Titles read '18th Century and Later' or 'Circa 1680 and Later', and two say 'Converted' outright, meaning the movement has been altered from its original escapement or drive. One listing pairs a case of around 1780 with a double fusee movement. Another has a French carriage clock movement fitted into a lantern case.

Are lantern clocks weight-driven or spring-driven?

Both, and the title usually says which. The 17th- and 18th-century clocks are weight-driven, hung on a wall by hook and spike, with a verge escapement. The Victorian and Edwardian ones are spring-driven with a fusee, made for a mantel or table top rather than a wall.

Which towns and makers turn up in the listings?

London leads, appearing in 15 titles, and 'english' in 19. Beyond London the naming is provincial and single: Preston, Stamford, Maidstone, Royston, Bury St Edmunds, Bolnhurst, Dorking, Titchfield, Wigton, Totnes, Mobberley, Soyland and New Sarum each appear once. Northern English work is called out by name in several titles and sits in the upper part of the range.

What is a winged lantern clock?

A case with side wings enclosing a swinging pendulum bob. Three titles across the whole archive use the term. Miniature examples are equally scarce, with just two on file, both hook-and-spike or verge alarum clocks of about 1745.

Why do some listings say house or chamber clock?

Two titles use those words instead of lantern clock. That's what the earliest examples were originally known as, before the later name stuck. Both sit in the upper part of the sampled range.

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A lantern clock is a brass-cased chamber clock, taller than it is wide, with a bell mounted above the movement and a wide chapter ring across the front, made to hang on a wall or stand on a bracket and strike the hours.

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