US Clock Vintage Champion Plugs Lighted Wall Clock 14 x 14 Inches   $119.95

Vintage Wall Clock, Brooklyn, NY  $450

The FIRST AMERICAN CLOCK was designed by BENJAMIN BANNEKER  the self-taught son a former slave who also invented farm irrigations systems among other things, but in 1750, this black inventor developed a clock that;  thought made entirely of self-carved wooden pieces; kept precise time and lasted for decades.

COUNTERTOP ICE CREAM DISPLAY CLOCK.  In very good condition sold at Morphy Auction in late 2012 for $540.00

 

Clocks use an “ESCAPEMENT MECHANISM” to regulate their time keeping.  On a watch this is a BALANCE WHEEL and on a grandfather clock the PENDULUM.  This basically is the mechanism that ticks steadily and which moves the gears.

 

TUDRIC MANTEL CLOCK by Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co.  England c. 1905  $2,432.00

 

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME by the way was proposed by a New Zealander:  George Vernon Hudson in 1895 and it was first used in Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1916.  But it’s popularity and extensive use didn’t begin till the energy crisis of the 1970s.

 

GEORGE NELSON PEDAL CLOCK 1957.   Sold in auction early 2014 for $3,125.00

 

Want get away from DLS?  In the US try Hawaii and PARTS (???) of Arizona or US territories (Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island as well as American Samoa) .  Out side the US many countries near the equator might be a good place to try or China and Japan.  (actually there are 70 countries that observe it)

 

GEORGE NELSON “KITE” WALL CLOCK Model 2201 Sold in auction in middle 2013 for $4,375.00

 

Up until the 19th century clock were something belonging mostly to the rich. but in 1807 Eli Terry began making works (which prior to this had taken long periods to make—Terry made 5,000 in 3 years) which he sold for $5 each.   The rest is history with 15,000,000 clocks being produced yearly by 1941.

 

 

 

 

 

 1995 BEIGE & WHITE CERAMIC RABBIT FIGURINES A FRIEND LIKE YOU” HILLMAN   $16.00

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SPECIAL FEATURED ITEM OF THE WEEK

JULIUS ASSMANN GOLD HALF-HUNTER WATCH c. 1880  Estimated value $6,000 – $8,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAHAINA DREAMS COLLECTOR PLATE 2841A 1996 6TH ISSUE in ABOVE AND BELOW  $27.20

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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.—THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain