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Our clocks
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Ansonia crystal regulator clock, a wedding present for my father's mother in 1914. More expensive makes had vials of mercury in the pendulum, but these are lead weights.
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Cherry carriage clock made by my father's father in the 1970s, with "bim-bam" strike.
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Oak regulator clock made for me by my father in the late 1980s, Mason and Sullivan works with "bim-bam" strike.
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Gustav Becker mantle clock with lovely Westminster chime, about 1915. Purchased by my father at an auction in central Pennsylvania, but he could rarely keep it running. After I got it in 1997 when my father died, I had it fixed by a professional clock shop and it ran well for several years. But when it broke a spring, that shop was out of business, and it's taken several tries to find someone who can fix it; it's currently in a fourth shop.
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