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Dig des krazy rare clocks, mon
Someone is auctioning off this ad. At least three clocks I've NEVER seen.
Cool, huh?

I wish someone would do ...
I wish someone would do a book on the howard miller clocks they can leave the section about the grandfather clocks off cause those are throw up to me, They must of made so many of those different clocks in the late 50 and 60 and I have a feeling Nelson only designed a few. the rest were made by staff people, and they were good, over the years i have seen a lot of them at estate sales and flee markets and of course everyone says the are Nelson clocks,
I just can not imange why Howard miller would not reissue any of those clocks
I guess they make to much money on the grandfather clocks,

Boy I'll bet
that clock in the lower right corner with the fins was a bear to keep dust free.

Yes, but
dang, what a cool clock!

i see that all wood ...
i see that all wood clock on ebay all the time it still goes for around 400. they really are cool,

i just got the kite ...
i just got the kite clock and it seems really nice. i overpaid/underpaid from white on white for 125.00 when i could have bought it from http://www.allworldfurniture.com/ for 42.00 and of course VITRA for $265.00 the good looking lady across the street bought the Kite clock in NYC from Vitra and this one seems to be just the same with out a vitra sticker (amazing on this one) but what the hell it is only money. and i can not get the best deal always or no one would believe me. but i will say these are really nice quality
It looks and acts just like the vitra which i guess is the gold standard around here.
special thanks for James for finding this good source
I looked all over the box and the plastic and it does not say one thing about MADE IN CHINA any idea why? i thought every thing had to say country of Origin any way i still have the multi color spike coming from all world tomorrow and that was 52.00 so I guess with simple math I averaged the cost to $88.50 each not bad for a fun look

I'm late (pun intended)
All this info is dizzy inducing. I'm actually more confused about these re-released Nelson clocks.
There's two clocks high up on my wants. Seen below...love 'em both. Originals rare. Have these been "reissued"? If not, then it's criminal they haven't! Criminal if they get a $300 price tag!
The Motion Notion (bottom) clock, can be seen several posting up in the Advert. picture.

WoofWoof
those are way tooooooo coooool
I would be standing at the front door the night
before to own one of those , i have never seen them on ebay or anywhere Where the hell is Leslie Pena and why does she not write a book on all these great clocks???? if she is wanting some one to beg here it is write the damn book alreay!!!!!!

Absolutely!
Agree with you...book is a must. Might buy two, just to tear out pic pages and hang em on the wall...lol NOT.
Clocks are way cool gnarlyness!
Both picture I copied from an NY auction house i think...
The first one, just riviting to look at the shadows, dancing around the clock. Might be a little hard to read the time.

who cares about the time...
who cares about the time with that good looking one !!!
ok i will call Leslie Pena in the morning to see if i can talk to her about writing a book on the clocks of Howard miller, cause i would not be surprised if the design staff of Howard miller came up with some of those great clocks, oh what the hell maybe i will write it. I have the time, (get it ) just get me a copy editor to check spelling and grammar, maybe she will be a cute young gal.

Those clocks ARE beautiful
My friend had a wall clock with the same orange center as the second clock, but I don;'t remember then outside part being the same....there was more than one with that orange moving center.
So far, I don't think ANY of Nelson's clocks are ugly.
I have planted the seeds of the non-Herman Miller book (including all the Associates' clocks, dinnerware, fire irons, bookends, etc.) of stuff designed by George Nelson and the George nelson Associates, spotlighting the clocks.
She felt that people would not allow their clock collection to be photographed.
Heck, if she came to Minneapolis, I certainly would allow my Nelson stuff to be prefessionally photographed.
If she posted a request on thios forum, I believe a lot of people would help out.

i just called Pete ...
i just called Pete Schiffer owner and publisher of Schiffer Design books and sent him a email about the clocks of Howard Miller and George Nelson
we will see how quick he gets back with me,
If not we will try Chronicle books or Tashen publishing,
This is to good a subject to let grass grow under,

A few years ago, Wright was going to publish a Nelson clock book.
I think they first announced it in 2003-ish They were even building hype for it, how they had access to all the Nelson Associates archives, and cooperation with Irving Harper. They were saying it was going to be the most comprehensive, definitive, reference book on Nelson clocks ever published.
And then mysteriously they abandoned the project. I wonder how far they got into it, and what made them decide to abandon it.

Intrigue
Weird and intriguing
Perhaps the publishers found that by lining all the clocks in a specific pattern, a portal is opened, reveals all the answers of the universe and life itself.

I have a feeling WoofWoof is ...
I have a feeling WoofWoof is right 😉
It makes sense for Wright to do it. They probably have the most comprehensive collection of self owned photographs of Nelson clocks (since they have their own photographers to take the photos .... this also would help to employ a homogeneous quality to the photography).