Show WHY ancient timepieces Time pieces were expensive affairs across the street lives an ancient timepiece tall lull and lark dark with narrow II 11 lines nes of I 1 may inlay it was in 1800 1806 for one general mower a citizen of sterling worth as aa they used to soy say tile general bought tile the face weight and pendulum in boston paying 65 for them mr cheney of windsor made the brass brasa works 25 e 1 mid john dana of woodstock ill hullt it tie lie c cube a be adding 35 to tile the cost ono one hundred undred li find twenty five dollars altogether r you see a largo sum bum indeed for those bygone days and one that I 1 tit t all account for until 1 I discovered unit that brass weights find and works canie came chiefly from england and that the nicholson resolution of ISM 1800 prohibited their importation at ion still such built clocks must always hue have been coa as far buck back as the file less expensive ear car of 1700 1790 21 pounds in lard hard vioney money was paid for it 11 grandfathers doclot a financial fact that in jilves you wonder wily collectors today object to expending only a little more for such buch antique treasures ti tr ensures they really are bargains I 1 last month ut fit a country auction ont one was sold for find and some people thought the price high and yet it probably cost nearly as much when ft hen it first was made you know it was said that it was the very high price of these brass works which originally inspired connecticut clock clochi makers to whittle their works out of hardwood ell terry deserves the credit for his flits ingenious economy hut but uio the method was soon adopt ed by many craftsmen iso BO many indeed that if the old label tills has been lost in the various vicissitudes of repairing pairing an attic residence and bandying about from owner to owner it Is n R little to say eay just who fashioned a particular clock alice van leer carrick in Lc monthly |