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One of the best ways of adding value
to your turret clock is to collaborate
with people doing research in
specific areas. They will share information
with you, as you can. This way the pool
of information can be developed.
We run a club specifically for turret
clocks. In this group we have databases
and links to other sites. Its free to join. To
stop unwanted spammers, all you have
to do is join and wait for the approval.
Just write a few lines which will identify you as somebody wishing to get involved in turret clocks and it will happen.
We will be developing a stolen section, sadly becoming more common as these clocks become more and more valuable. Its no use registering the clock stolen (with the crime identification number) many months and years after the event. People buying turret clocks will be looking at the register now! Say for instance the building went derelict and at some point their was a sale of items, which could have included the turret clock, saying its stolen many years later would be untrue. Great harm can be caused by the ‘over-involved’. The person that has the clock might have it without paperwork, this is not to say they don’t own it. Please be careful and remember its people that really matter.
By recording your clocks you essentially define them as yours and record the history about them. This can help if you wishes to sell them as all records will be dated. So the sooner they go on the database the longer they are defined. Hence if somebody else tried to register a clock, your record would be the first.
Within the electrical horology club this has progressed and it has acted as a pilot study so we get it right first time with turret clocks.
For those involve in research, it no use telling us ‘I wish you would have asked them to’.... Tell us the information you need now in the database, at this early stage. We are setting up www.devonclocktrust.co.uk as a pilot. We hope this will progress to other county’s .. countries.
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