People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — A Grandfather’s Clock. [ARTICLE]

A Grandfather’s Clock.

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild possesses an old “grandfather's dook” that originally cost over £BO,OOO. The mechanism records the day of the week, month of the year, the phases of the moon and strikes each hour. The quarters are chimed with a different bell, and (a rare thing with these clocks) it has a second hand. The case was made by Wertheimer and stands 14 feet high. It was originally the property of Louis XVT.