Chapter 72 June 2007

The Sydney meeting covered clock collection insurance by a lady from the NRMA; interesting to find out that clocks are not in the high risk category for theft such as watches and jewellery because they are much less easy to dispose of. Auctioneer's Lawsons' also answered many questions on selling your clocks at various auction types.

Lindsay Bramall discussed the restoration of 2 Bulle clocks	... with appropriate pictures. The larger, which he calls La Belle Bulle was bought on eBay.	However when it arrived it had no marble base - not apparent on the eBay pictures!	Quite a challenge but he managed to get matching marble cut to shape - truly a belle accomplishment!	These clocks are French, electric and run on a 'C' battery
Rod Elliott showed a movement where he had resurrected the motor	The motor system now uses a silicon transistor in place of the original germanium transistor.	Components for the Bulova tuning fork movement for clocks were also on show	Jack Percival's display pointed out the problems of buying at auction where the pendulum length on the clock can be shorter than required	Some of the mart items available
Barbara Potter won the raffle