Alarm Clock Collectors Newsletter Summer 2012
These pictures and the related text were taken from various Ward’s catalogues (at least I believe this is true) of earlier years. The post Alarm Clock Collectors Newsletter Summer 2012 appeared first...
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Westclox teamed up with the Dura Manufacturing Company in Todedo, Ohio, to create the La Salle series of clocks inspired by the popular Art Deco design style that had become so widespread in the...
View ArticleNational watch and clock museum, time well spent
Set in the heart of Pennsylvania’s early American clock making region, the National Association Watch and Clock Collectors museum in Columbia, Pennsylvania is worth a visit. Their collection spans from...
View ArticleA Little collection of clock and watch books
For people interested in the history or collecting mechanical clocks and watches, there is no better source of information than printed books on the subject. Just as mechanical clocks have become a...
View ArticleThe Inked Insurance Agent, Amateur Tattoo Line Designs
At first, I was only going to get one tattoo of the cubist couple. But it seemed unbalanced, so I designed the second part of the cubist couple for the other leg. Then I was hooked. I loved the...
View ArticleUnknown Art Nouveau Grandfather Clock
On the front of the well, near the bottom, are tree horizontal undulating lines. This, I assume, is to convey an aspect of water. Three lines, perpendicular to the water lines rise up and become the...
View ArticleCan A Replica Seth Thomas Clock Be Historic?
This reissue of the No. 2 will never be as valuable as an original. The clock movement is not as finished as the original Seth Thomas clocks of the 1800s. For instance, the new number 61 movement does...
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