When readers seek information about their antique collectibles, Carolyn Patten finds expert advice about their value and history. Find the answers to mysteries about old and rare items. Courtesy of ...

“My mom had this clock for years,” explained Denise Harris-Fiems in an email requesting an appraisal of her family heirloom. She was hoping to find out more about the piece and brought it to a recent ...

Check out Sean Delaney’s appraisal of a French figural clock, ca. 1850, in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hour 1. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise ...

Before we all pulled our iPhones out of our back pocket to check the time, time was held by clocks, and some were the pinnacle of opulence. When it comes to antique clocks, there’s a world of rare and ...

Q. My great aunt, who had a wonderful eye and loved antiques, owned these two clocks. They're both quite heavy, with glass doors on front and back. They haven't been wound in years and I'm not sure if ...

An 18th-century Neoclassical clock standing ten feet tall, made by a clockmaker to the French king, may fetch as much as $850,000 at a Paris auction on June 30. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime occasion,” ...