Grandkids & other stuff: Clocks, clocks and old furniture

From our most recent adventure to Ft. Wayne to our 1st purchases of furniture from Lon at Home Again.

This is a clock we purchased at the Fort Wayne, IN auction of Dr. David L. Tennant antique collections of clocks, watches and furniture. It was a very good event.

This clock is the Birge & Peck 8 day Half Column triple decker "Puffin Betsy" clock we bought for Jeanette, Viv's sister in Moline, IL. We hope to be delivering it and the next clock soon.

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Here's an unusual clock (for me at least) in that it only strikes once - at 1 o'clock. Hence the name "Dickory, Dickory, Dock" clock. Jeanette will be very excited to get both of these clocks to add to her already vast and impressive clock collection.

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Following are the clocks that we bought at the same auction. 1st on is a Seth Thomas in pretty good shape.

Then our new Sessions Clock

Here's a Japanese "Regulator" type wall clock. Keeps excellent time and is in pretty good shape.

This is Viv's birthday present for me last April. It's a Kundo Anniversary clock and it's in good shape and keeps good time as well.

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Here are our recent furniture purchases. A love seat from Nappanee and a neat little antique table from the Ft. Wayne auction.

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And Viv seated at her corner desk that we purchased at Home Again shortly after we moved to Goshen, IN in Jan 07.

This is Love Seat we SHOULD have bought at this Fort Wayne auction but didn't. It went for only $250.00. It was really very nice. Should have gotten it darn it.

This Grandfather's Clock was >$10,000 when the doctor purchased it and brought only $3200 at the Ft. Wayne auction. It was BEAUTIFUL!

Some pictures of the "action" at the Fort Wayne auction in July 07. It was a very well run auction and a lot of fun.

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And the following pictures are of my Newly Reconfigured Clock Repair Tool Kit.
I got the wooden tool box at a Shipsheewana auction full of fishing lures. It was a STEAL at only $40. There was over $50 worth of fishing lures in it! I have since converted it to work on clocks.

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This is one of two pocket watches that Viv had to have that she had to pay $15 each for at the Ft. Wayne auction. They're interesting but - well - they're interesting.

These are some chairs that we purchased from Lon at Home Again sometime in March or April 2007. We had "fun" stripping years of neglect, black stuff and spider webs off and re-gluing them, then refinishing and re-upholstering them with Viv's theme of BUTTERFLIES. But we think it was worth it.

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