Re: [Bann Valley] Connecticut 8 day shelf clock in a gingerbread case c1900

[Lunney Family <family@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In all the local parishes by the 1830s, according to the Ordnance  
Survey memoirs, almost all houses, at least at that date all the  
farmers' houses , had clocks. For Macosquin, they comment "all are  
with few exceptions, furnished with clocks, a circumstance which  
indicates industry and a value for time". Machinemade American clocks  
were imported in huge numbers;  local clockmakers couuld not compete.  
I believe poorer people paid by instalments to travelling salesmen;  
isn't that where the phrase "paying on tick" comes from?

Linde Lunney

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