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Show ent Timepieces Were Expensive Affairs ,he street Uvea an ancient 'tr!i tall and dark, with narrow V" ,' checkered Inlay. It was e" iS06 Tor one General Mower, 8terlln worth, as they icitl" T The general bought the ifht nd pendulum In Boston, M5 for them. Mr. Cheney of P'r mad the brass works J25 " HI John Dana of Woodstock ,,rC caw, adding 585 to the coat, 'hundred and twenty-flve dollars J" T,r rou see, a large sura in-to in-to those bygone days, and on. couldn't at all account for until ,l,ered that brass weights and 1 h rame chiefly from England, and thi .Nicholson resolution of 1S06 prohibited their Importation, 't I men clocks must always have tlr as far back as the less of 1790, 21 pounds "In f mon;y" was paid for . grand-clock, grand-clock, a financial fact that von wonder why collectors to-' to-' object to expending only a little a to' 6Uch antl(lue trea8ures-C' trea8ures-C' really are bargains ! Last month, , , country auction, one was sold !,S130 and some people thought the rta Ugh. And yet It probably cost J(jrly as much when It first was Bj0j gn0w, It was said tliat It was the ttrr high price of these brass works rtlcl originally inspired Connecticut ttock makers to whittle their works of hardwood. EU Terry deserves ll, credit for this Ingenious econ-(bt, econ-(bt, but the method was soon adopt-,j adopt-,j by many craftsmen, so many, ln-jHl ln-jHl that if the old label has been lost in the various vicissitudes of repairing, re-pairing, an attic residence and bandy-U bandy-U about from owner to owner, it j a little difficult to say Just who dsMoned t particular clock. Alice Tin Leer Carrick In HcNaught's Monthly. |