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Bulletin |
of the
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of
WATCH & CLOCK
COLLECTORS, Inc.
Since 1943
February 2006 Volume 48/1 Number 360 |
Contents This issue's online featured article is: Roasting
Jack Operation Revealed!
ARTICLES
Star Watch Case Company
1897-1982
by Jack Linahan with photos and comments from Dimitry Grabbe |
4 |
Texas Courthouse
Trivia - Part I
by Jim West |
11 |
The Basilisk Myth
A French Carriage Clock Circa 1880-90
by Richard Perlman |
17 |
Establishing
Provenance with Inscriptions and Internet Resources
Two 21st Birthday Watches
by Jonathon Weber |
23 |
Roasting Jack
Operation Revealed!
by Pete Riegel |
28 |
An Unusual French
Regulator with Equation of Time
by David Walter |
29 |
What Goes Around:
Historical German Patents and Torsion Pendulum Clocks
by Douglas K. Stevenson |
33 |
Reed Serial N0. 4
by Clint B. Geller, Ph.D. |
53 |
A History of George
Steele Tiffany Clocks
by Leonard Brenner |
57 |
FEATURES
| To Members - from the
Board of Directors |
3 |
| Perspective - Fun
and Learning Collide at the Museum |
10 |
| Horology
Houston-Style at the 2005 Ward Francillon Time Symposium |
15 |
From the Workshop -
Accutron Tools and Assembling an Accutron 218
by Doug Sinclair |
46 |
| Book Reviews |
50 |
| Vox Temporis -
Letters to the Editor |
66 |
| The Answer Box
edited by Doug Cowan |
71 |
| The National Watch
and Clock Museum by Library Director Sharon Gordon |
74 |
| Research Activities
and News edited by Snowden Taylor |
75 |
| Chapter Highlights |
86 |
| Obituaries |
110 |
| 2005 Bulletin Index |
111 |
| NAWCC Staff and
Committees |
128 |
| Dates to Remember |
Cover 3 |
 About the Cover
The front cover features engraved tools made and used by the Star Watch
Case Company of Ludington, MI. The tools on the cover are part of a
collection donated to the Watch and Clock Museum by Dimitry Grabbe of
Middletown, PA. Jack Linahan's article about the Star Watch Case Co.,
which includes factory photos from Mr. Grabbe, starts on page 4 in this
issue. A photo of the "toolmakers" is included in the article. According
to Mr. Grabbe, who visited the factory in order to understand its
processes, the toolmakers were artisans with remarkable skill, a claim
that the cover images certainly validate. |
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January 31, 2006 |
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