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Welcome to Lost in Time Clocks. Here you will find a large variety of time pieces that were common place with your grand parents and great grand parents. These fantastic clocks no longer need to be forgotten or Lost in Time. We understand that this is a serious purchase that you are considering. We are not like other website stores that just want you to point and click and not really know what you are getting. We at Lost in Time clocks have set up a very different concept in todays market. We want you to call us and yes speak with a live person in real time who will spend the necessary time to explain exactly what you are buying. We love to talk about our clocks whether you purchase or not. And if you do purchase, you will love to talk about these time pieces also. Please browse our store and explore the vast selection of Clocks, Grandfather Clocks, Cuckoo Clocks and more. Give us a call and we will discuss these fine time pieces with you.

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How Grandfather Clocks got their name

In England's North Yorkshire region, there was town callled Piercebridge sometime in the 1700's.  In this town was a hotel, known as the George Hotel, which was a popular place for travelers to stop and rest their horses while the traveler's went inside for refreshments.  This establishment was run by the Jenkins Brothers.

As the story goes, there was  long-case clock in this hotel which reportedly kept remarkably good time.  That is until one of the two Jenkins brothers passed away.  Suddenly, it is said, an odd thing occured - the old floor clock began losing time.  It started to lose as much as 15 minutes per day.  Then, it lost even more time each day until it was losing well over an hour each and every day.

No clocksmith could repair the long-case clock, and eventually gave up.  The clock stayed put in the hotel.  Having been remarkable in its ability to keep time, now it was remarkable in its lack of accurace and the strange timing coinciding with the brothers' death.  It was the source of much discussion, as the travelers came and went year after year.  As the story goes, another stranger event took place.  The second brother passed away at the age of 90 and the clock stopped running completely.  even when wound completely, the clock workings refused to move and the hands would not turn.  When the hotel acquired a new owner, the clock was left standing in the corner of the lobby, its hands reportedly stuck showing the moment that the last brother passed away.  In the 1875, Henry Work, an american songwriter, was on holiday in England and found himself at the George Hotel.  The story of the clock was still alive.  It sparked Henry's creativity and imagination.  So Henry wrote a song and published it.  His sheet music eventually sold over a million copies.

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Where are we today?

Prior to this song, these clocks has varies names such as - long case clocks, tall case clocks, floor clocks and pendulum clocks.  since the popularity of Henry Work's song, these clocks have been referred to primarily as "Grandfather Clocks".

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The first cuckoo clocks were primitive compared to those made later. Their movements were made with wooden plates and gears. Many of the clocks had square faces painted with water color paints. As time went on, the clocks became more and more sophisticated in their designs and decorations. The birds' wings and beaks were animated and some decorated with feathers. The many themes decorating the clocks were only limited to the imagination of the painters of the faces for the clocks. They included scenes of family, hunting, military motifs and more. Some were even decorated with porcelain columns and enameled dials.

Some of the more famous early cuckoo clock makers in the Black Forest were Theodore Ketterer, Johann Baptist Beha and Fidel Hepting.

By the late 1800s the cuckoo industry was some what industrialized. As well as factories where the clocks where made and assembled, Families would live and work together in large cottages, each individual working on the part of the clock they specialized in. Some carved the decorations, others assembling the movement and still others fitting movements in the cases. There were an estimated 13,500 men and women engaged in the clock making industry in the villages in and around Triberg.

The Cuckoo Bird

The Cuckoo can be found in Africa, Asia and Northern Europe. They are slim bodied and are about 13 inches in length. They have a blue-grey head, breast and upper parts, and horizontal barring on the under parts. However, the female also exists as a rare rufous (reddish) morph, so instead of being grey it is red-brown. They never build a nest, preferring instead to lay their eggs in the nests of other birds who unwittingly raise the cuckoo fledglings as their own.