Lloyd, you're back?
There's some clocks here for your comment.....
Oh yea, I got the yellow asterik today and I'm going to have a bit of difficulty finding the exact same mustard color to touch up the yellow. I don't want to repaint it....just touch it up.
The motor DOES need replacing...but that's easy!
Barry
that is one great clock you got and very rare, so be glad you own that one, in the yellow, a motor is easy to put in. use 409 to clean it up and call it a day cause it is a real classic .
I missed on ebay folks a Tugenhut Mies chair it went for $2135.00
The dummy who had it listed was asking 3000. on a buy it now .
i was out of town when it was listed,
and some idiot put a cheap bid and the buy it now went away, so sad.
I emailed and said i would buy it now for the original price she listed, but the stoop said no I will have to wait now,
I said this one is to stupid to deal with and I never
bid,
low and behold, the chair went for 2135.00 the chair went for 15,000. at the Wright auction, several years ago.
Dont you hate those folks on ebay who know it all
and wont bend the rules, and at the end of the day
they are the ones who loose out. (please no lectures from non rule benders of what a lousy world we would live in if we did not have rules I have my own wife to remind me on a daily bases thank you),
serves her right . I guess, but i am also to blame cause i get sick and tired of chasing stuff on ebay.
and refused to throw a bid in .... so goes life something else will be around the corner to strike my fancy, ...........right Barry,
I am getting the biggest ...
I am getting the biggest kick out of seeing these clocks on ebay that the sellers are putting up for 500.00 on buy it now
I love to see folks make money as my real business is the oil and gas business, and we are doing very well thank you very much, but why would any one put the price on this clock that brings really no more than 250.00 tops on ebay, at 500.00.
At the Palm Springs show where every thing is the highest . cause of big buyers these clocks were selling for 300.00 and if you talk nice to the guy who owned the booth he would have let you have for $250.00
someone please tell me what gives with ebay people cause i am getting sick and tired of them, and thinking just cause you find a old Howard miller clock at a flee market or junk store,
that is your ticket to total retirement and a happy life . or the equivalent of hitting a home run,
what a joke.
yes that clock is a...
yes that clock is a Howard Miller clock from the 60s
I saw one at the clock shop last month just like it
and took a look at it,
It says Howard miller
I doubt that George Nelson had one thing to do with that clock.
I bet Miller took it upon themselves to add the the hands. personal opinon I bet Nelson hated those type of clocks just not his style, but the hands are,
any one think it is worth...
any one think it is worth the ink to write to Vitra to see if they might consider making some more Nelson clocks, i think we are all getting tired of seeing the 10 out in the marketplace for the last 10 years, I wish new ones would be made,
Then i guess our knock off buddies would not be to far behind, with there great cheap knockoffs,.
LRF...as regards the auction houses
I've looked at 'em, but they annoy the heck out of me. Anyone who sells on eBay is expected to provide detailed information about the item, its condition, does it work (if mechanical), etc.
Those "Live Auction" auction houses apparently do not feel that need. 99% of the live auction listings I've seen are horrible for information. Big deal, they provide a photograph! (They say next to nothing about the item but they make sure that you clearly see that buyer's premium.)
Another thing they say next to nothing about is how the item would be shipped. (I have visions of these auction houses having minimum-wage kids who hardly speak English with sledge hammers in their hands ready to break apart any item not removed from their premises within the expected time frame!!!! just kidding).
Bottom line, I could need to have something REALLY bad to go through all of that hassle to
1) email them ahead for essential information that they haven't bothered to provide up front,
2) pay the rip-off buyer's premium (can be up to 30%), and
3) swiftly figure out how the heck to get the item packed and removed from their premises.
Way too drama for little ol' me to endure!
just bought this arthur...
just bought this arthur umanoff clock on a buy it now for 125.00
but don't fret friends!!!! another one is listed for 50 bucks starting bid
I saw this one at the show in Palm Springs for 300.00 to me it was a good deal so vintage early 70s heavy wood that is is really hip now as all of the Arthur clocks are now .
if you guys get it for 50.00 your gonna owe me some money for not bidding, goood luck,
I just saw that the dude who listed the other clock
on ebay jumped his opening bid cause he saw my buy it now Now that is what i call creedy,
From what i am gathering...
From what i am gathering these clocks designed by Arthur Umanoff, were not as popular as the Irvine Harper clocks, The main reason was the Turned wood, very heavy and a signature of the early 70s .
People did love the whimsical numbers that Umanoff designed and of course his signature orange hands, Distribution back then was mostly in The U.S. but they did make there way over seas. in a limited amount and very few styles offered,
Howard Miller moved on from the heavy turned wood ( i think they are cool) to the more boring injection molded plastic that is still popular today and started putting plastic on the face, called them a 2 ply injection molded clock face and base, mold together, making it almost impossible to change a broken hand,
This was the same problem that the Michael Graves Clocks had in the 90s for Target made in China,
the hands, and movements, broke with no way to fix them, sad to say off to the trash...
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