Jacobite Clock Found In Charity Shop !, Rare Treasure

WoW !!!!
What a find this was !!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinbu...ast/7282993.stm

The McAlpine

That was a great fine! How nice of her to donate the clock.

Glad to see it will go home and be seen by others rather than go into private hands.
Horology, The Science of Timekeeping, Clocks and such, I never knew that!!
And you think one would being from Connecticut and its fabled connection to clockmaking.
Learned something new today.

What amazes me is the fact that the lady has owned the clock since the 1960's when she found it in the Charity shop. Has she had it working since ? If so, and it had been repaired for her, how can the clock repairer not have noticed it's age ? Add the fact that clocks of this nature are like rocking horse manure, the nation of Scotland is very lucky indeed that the item has seen the light of day again.

Her gift to the museum is a fantastic gesture. I'll warrant a clock such as it is, if put on the open market, would fetch much gold.

The McAlpine

Amazing truly amazing.

Value for items like these, that have no equal, represent much more than a clock example, but rather a nations heritage and are cultural pieces of the people.

Fortune shines her bright face on the Scottish.

What a wonderful story. I am glad that she returned it to Scotland. I never find anything good in second hand stores. Guess I need to check more often. lol
Thanks for posting this Himself.

Slainte

Methinks tis TIME for the Modern Jacobites to rise and be counted, Saor Alba!

As a member of the NAWCC (National Association of Watch and Clock Collector's) and the AWI (American Watch Institute), it's very easy to allow a piece like that to pass over your workbench. There are so many clockmakers from England and Scotland from that time period and you can't possible keep up with all the information about most of them. If, there is even information available for them. I've come across many Scottish, Irish and English watch and clockmakers but they are totally unknown. Because of that, sometimes, it's very hard to even put a value on some of these timepieces. It then comes down to the craftmanship of the maker. We know at roughly the time frame of the advancement of technology with working with metal.If we know when these makers were living and the technology that was available at that time, we can place a more educated value on the timepieces because of the way the maker utilized the new advancements.


At least it was preserved, instead of being scrapped, like what is happening now. Many people are going into their safe deposit boxes and closets and pulling out their grandparents watches and jewelry and selling it for scrap. Some of these pieces are worth more in original condition, then the scrap value. Metal dealers don't care. That's not their business and have no respect for the history of these pieces.

If you would like to learn more about timepieces, visit http://www.nawcc.org/

Sadly things seem to hold no sentimental value for most in the modern world, it is all about MONEY, but assuredly having seen many funerals I have never yet seen a Hearse pulling a U-Haul.