Tag
horology
Fairs & Auctions
A Specialist Clock Sale Outside Boston
One afternoon at a single-discipline clock auction in Marlborough, where the bidders all know each other and the catalogue is a working census.
Markings
Longcase Clock Dials and Movements: Reading the Maker's Mark
An eight-day longcase clock arrived at Ellis Mauro's Berlin workshop in March, sent down from a private estate in Lübeck. The brass dial bore the engraved name Thomas Mudge, London; the movement, on inspection, told a more complicated story.
Care
Polishing Brass Without Stripping the Patina: A Ship's Clock from 1894
A Chelsea Clock Company eight-day ship's bell clock, brought back over five months by a Cape Cod horologist with rouge, a soft mop, and patience.
Workshop Visits
The Clockmaker's Son in Coastal Maine
Theodore Aroostook inherited his father's bench, his father's loupe, and a backlog of repairs going back to 1979. From a shed in Stonington, he keeps American shelf clocks running.