MR QUIGG'S CLOCKS

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 9

MR QUIGG'S CLOCKS

POOR MAN'S HOUBT, 1

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AH SQftS and condition! e| m % &»?• sll Bprts and condition* of 0o W e men grow up with tfcfl{r ko.febje* \H grow olfl With them., bet wIfTOM apsepi! partaker of the grot*. ropg cenietwy, «t Botany,»«? Sydney, w grpwing old with bii, he did not acquire it until lie w»i in piMlfrSfe And iurely there, is no hnhhr ftiyuer , . . than Qujgg'a, ia the eoWftttlTof clocks. Jn the 80 yaara fee !»»§ *»a. engaged in his hobby, Qnigjr fejf ptfc. ?re4 together B.ea?)y, live QMtiU (nana of the wateh.m.akej'i flfV T s|» - cottage is full of clocks Mid - m praotiqaljy no two of theps !$&»• - ■ ■ *

Six »ra» tq yu4. ' Once Mr Qnigg naed to- hivf then . . all going, and the work of *{i4Jt&g them took t\i h,oura one fog « «f|k. Not ali of O»PW needed TriniiMW often, for several eloeka i« tion will >ur for n without beifgj wound, It waaQuigg'BffiflofeawMilturt ' of mind amj elovcr flngw wW«k •»• abied. him to gutMr sp large * wHoo* tion at so. small n cost, for he ia » ponipi\rativfly pepr w»n. He peyer bgnght 'jv wutch or cloofe th»t WW i« pod running order, but found Mi b«rq«lini in salerognw, where eltea « ««m----her gf clocks, »ppsrently uielen, wo«ld he knocked down to him at 4 nominal price. He bought them, like dukw, •* two or three a penny. Once he paid £3 for an English grandfather eloek, and that is the "most costly iq hit collection, though many others bow ara far mpre valuable. For some of his clocks Quigg has had 6«< ! >e tempting offers, but he loves tl:em Hke ehildrer, and would not part with theui.

Animated Clocks. Of musical clocks there are payßral, besides cuckoo clpcks. Onp has * JjontaPlan who step? put ant} 6oond» bis liqrn at the kciuro, thp blast being followed by ii merry hunting tijno. Another has a hoary monk, who brat? a bell jeverely at the bpm and balf hour, while another has two bell ringers, who pull laboriously at string rnpea to %e\\ the hours. Quigg's lovo for the bizarre is shown in bis choice of pendulums. One is iriade from what is Mid to be the key pf the first prison van in Sydney, another from e shop pf % pony killed 011 a Sydney raec?our«e. Th» largest clock is one that is stated, to have been the flrat pnit pfflco clopl; ia" this city. There is a clock HtU entirely of wood and dat.ug frpro IMP, another is said to have been at St. Helena during the time of Napoleon's imprisonment there. Tha only fesuy modern nutf in the coUeetiOß U » working nodel pf Charlie Clmplie WO Mary Pick ford Every hour the fori»u goes thfioj/h the actions: of emptying a teapot over Mary Pickf«4> JJWtiiie hat. « -