It was a weight driven wall clock.
Lantern wall clock.
Other names have been used including cromwellian clock because the bell at the top suggested a cromwellian helmet and the latter because of four turned columns at each corner of.
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It is thought the lantern clock was named due to its similarity to a lantern or derived from the word latten which was a word used for brass around the 17 th century when these clocks were first introduced.
Antique lantern clocks lantern clocks derive their name either from the dutch word latten for brass or from their similarity in appearance to early domestic lamps or lanterns the first short duration weight driven lantern clocks made by english clockmakers date from the early 1600s and continued in some form until the late 1700s.
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Lantern clocks however even the blacksmith made ones described here were higher up the social tree than mere hanging alarms.
The lantern clock was probably the most common type of domestic 17th century clock to be found.
A lantern clock is a type of antique weight driven wall clock shaped like a lantern they were the first type of clock widely used in private homes.
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Typical construction took a lantern shape made of brass with a bell on top surrounded by fretwork.
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When seventeenth century blacksmiths iron lantern clocks survive then they are lantern clocks in appearance or clocks of that general nature based on the concept of the lantern clock.
They probably originated before 1500 but only became common after 1600.
In britain around 1620.
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They became obsolete in the 19th century.