I ran across one of those clocks that you want to buy really cheap. I can get it for around $150. It is the black one with the x's--the #174 wall clock. The pedulum is a bit beat up but the finish is original. With this thread, I should be able to convince my husband and myself that it would be an excellent addition to our collection. Buying a clock is not on our list of things to buy right now.
The antique shop is going out of business and most stuff is marked 50% off. Some of the dealers are only taking 20% off and their stuff is still there. The owners of the retail space are moving in patio furniture, mattresses, etc. while the left over antiques are jammed into one room. This clock is the last arts & crafts thing left in the store. Everything is jammed into one room. There seem to be tons of good deals here, but I only know arts & crafts antiques and not the other styles of furniture.
I'll be out antiquing tomorrow (Saturday) and I might go for the clock, but I have an auction to check first that has an A&C bookcase listed, and there is one antiques mall place that just opened for the season that I should visit as well, so who knows what I might come home with.
..side note, the label on the Pequegnat identifies it to 'Berlin, Canada' - 'Berlin' was changed to 'Galt' after the start of the First World War, to disassociate from the connection to Germany
Just a footnote to my earlier post in this thread concerning the Pequegnat clock. It was purchased by a dealer from the "Craig's List" seller and it turned up this weekend at a Vancuver area antique fair. Picure attached.
The dealer was asking $690 CND.
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I saw a Pequegnat midget going for $400 at the Christie show yesterday.
I 'picked' this little collection of project parts this past week, from a dealer friend. Two matching Nationals, coincidentally the same model as the one I was talking about earlier in the thread. I also saw a couple of these (priced around $150) at the Christie show, so this looks to be a fairly common clock. Here's a completed eBay listing for 170ish U.S. http://cgi.ebay.ca/MISSION-OAK-ARTS-CRAFTS-ANTIQUE-WALL...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
A version of the "latch string" clock has turned up on e-bay. It appears to be identical except it lacks the lettering on the horizontal bar: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6633...TRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 No mention of Brooks in the auction text. Rather, it is described as follows: "Santa Rosa Eight Day Mission Strike. Manufactured by WM.L. Cilbert Clock Co" Pictures attached to this and the next post.
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I doubt Brooks made their own clocks but just bought them wholesale and branded them. There are only a couple clocks in the catalogue but dozens of furniture models. This was a pretty common practice for lamps as well. There was a company called Brown that supplied lamps to many manufacturers, including Brooks, who just rebadged them. There is one version of a cast iron style lamp that I have references to in several different company and store catalogues but its obviously the same lamp made by the same manufacturer.
..a couple typos in the listing - Santa not Sata, and Gilbert not Cilbert, I assume
..this one went for $86 (but sold 'as is'), the one posted previously went for $152 (good working condition), and the one posted further above from the 1999 Craftsman auction went for $400...that's quite a range...
I ran across an unusual A & C clock that I have not seen in this thread at an antique store that opened last month in Albuquerque, NM.
It is rectangular, pendulum, working condition, original finish, but the hands (no glass on the face) are badly bent. It is over a foot across and about 30 inches long. The dealer is asking almost $500 for it but I can't identify it. I will bring my camera this week and take some pictures.
There is also an odd piece of green cathedral, opaque stained glass in the lower third. It just doesn't seem to fit the clock and looks really out of place.
Originally posted by aclose: Written on the horizontal bar are the words "Latch String Always Out." Does anyone know if this phrase has any particular significance in the A & C movement?
it's odd that i would find a reference to the above quote so close to home. the following is from "the skeena, river of destiny" by r.g. large, pub. 1957. smithers is on the bulkley river, one of the main tributaries of the skeena which enters the pacific ocean 220 miles west of here at prince rupert.
rev f.l. stevenson, the first protestant missionary to serve the bulkley valley in 1906 says: our motto was "the latch string hangs on the outside of the door, pull it and come in". if none was home and you wanted a meal or to stay the night you were as welcome as though mine host was there. all that was expected was leave the place clean and tidy with wood and kindling ready for his return.
