Another F&D Kitchen is finished (almost)

Now time to get cookin! Need some tight fork view shots asap.

IWCII, Looks good MD,

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random but i like your clock

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That is a New Haven Banjo with a double chime, circa 1920.

Here is an unimportant MD detail - I have 12 spring driven clocks 2 weight driven and 3 pocket watches. Currently, I have 10 clocks out and running. All will strike at least the hour, some on the half hour and one has quarter hour strike, but I do not use the strike feature on all of them.

I do work on them and have two that are in need of annual maintenance. Maybe I am a clockaholic?





Edited to add one more thing. I saw a special on the Whitehouse a few years back and they interviewed a guy who had worked for four or five different presidents there. While he talked he was doing one of his weekly tasks. There was a wall under a stairwell in the Whitehouse with maybe ten Banjo clocks hanging down the length and he was winding them. Was interesting to see so many banjo case clocks, all gifts to whatever president was in office. Also nice to see they keep all of the running. Not good to let one go dormant. They have a need to be useful just like we do.

My late Grammaw had a phone like that in her house in Arabi ... Katrina took it.

I loved that phone. Because of this post, I'm going to find one for my home. My kitchen is full of "rustic" things from my Gram and now my Mom ... and I like it.

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my brother has a very nice grandfather clock from around that era i think

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I would call his clock a "tall case". My tall case is English from maybe 20s or 30s. I also have a (German) Vienna Regulator wall clock that probably also qualifies as a tall case.

Old Clocks can be addictive and many-many antique auctions will have one or more go up for auction, often at a good price, depending on who shows up and if they are clock people. I once purchased a black case mantle clock for $10.00 at the end of an estate auction in Alabama, when I made the only bid. The auctioneer described the clock and suggested bidding start at $100.00 which was reasonable. No one bid for a few moments and I said "$10.00" I guess out of spite or in anger he said, "OK I have $10.00. now who will bid $100?" His problem was he had accepted my bid and no one else bid, so he was obligated to sell the clock for $10.00. It is on our dining room buffet now.

My mom has her grandmother's mantle clock - a second hand Ansonia that her father traded a cow for and gave to my grandmother as a baby gift when their first daughter (one of my mom's 6 sisters) was born. In those days (1920s depression era Mississippi) the cow was probably worth $10.00 and the clock was worth $10.00 in those days too so it was probably a good trade. Many years later, I purchased an identical clock to the one on my mom's mantle from an antique store. Side by side you can not tell one from the other. They could have come off the clock assembly line in New Haven, one after the other.

Looks nice, MD.

Now get to cooking