English clocks: the top end of the market is undergoing a strong revival in the demand for early classic English clocks, thanks to a few key collectors and a long-overdue renaissance in horological scholarship.(Collectors' Focus)

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It is a truism that all markets are cyclical, and so the English clock market can be analysed from that standpoint, producing the same feeing of woe over the middle-market in clocks as is being experienced in English 'brown furniture'. However, more rewarding is an examination of the interplay between scholarship and the role of the leading, that is voracious, collectors of the day, always comparatively few in number at any given time. Looked at in this way, the current market for top-end British horology throws up some profoundly interesting currents--and shows a gradual progress ...

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