HINGHAM — The hands of 87-year-old Astrid Donnellan are as steady as a surgeon as she painstakingly works on restoring the dial of an 1825 antique clock. Clocks are on everyone’s minds this weekend as ...
Peter Lilienthal sees potential where others see none left. “I hate to see good things go in the garbage,” he said. Now 68 and the proprietor of Good as Old Antiques Repair & Art Gallery in Sheffield, ...
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A rare historic clock gifted more than a century ago by George Nathaniel Curzon, known as Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy and Governor General of India (January 1899–November 1905), to Sri Darbar Sahib, ...
When British clock expert Melvyn Lee and his team refurbished the St George town clock they found a surprise. Hidden between the hour hand and the minute hand was a thin, metal disc not much bigger ...
For years, some residents of the condominium complex at the former Hamilton Watch Co. factory in Lancaster city have been anxiously watching their clocks. After a long history of displaying accurate ...
EDENTON, N.C. — A familiar sound will soon return to downtown Edenton. After years of silence, the 134-year-old clock atop the Chowan County Courthouse will chime again following a successful ...