Antique Mantle
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 Antique Large Wooden Shelf Mantle Clock 25x15 skeleton keys repair parts  US $229.49
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 Beautiful antique French copper mantle clock US $215.00
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 WORKING Antique GE Telechron Mantle Shelf Clock Old VTG Electric Clocks Deco US $16.50
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 Cast Iron Mantle Clock US $6.38
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 Antique Seth Thomas Mantle Clock 8 Day Coil gong key wind 89 AL movement NICE US $121.50
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 Antique Marble Ansonia Clock Co NY Mantel Clock FOR PARTS US $59.51
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 Antique New Haven Shelf Mantle Clock Cottage Extra Day Striking painted glass US $100.00
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 FINE ANTIQUE SETH THOMAS OGEE SHELF MANTLE CLOCK US $99.99
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 Sessions DULCIANA Key wind Antique Mantle Clock 8 day Inlay case Clean Running US $112.50
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 Antique Junghans Unghans Wooden Mantle Clock Pillars US $30.00
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 Antique Tambour Shelf Mantle Clock W Double Chime Needs Repair US $57.25
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 VINTAGE ANSONIA PORCELAIN BLUEBIRD SHELF CLOCK US $36.99
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 VINTAGE CLOCK WORKS MANTLE OR PARTS US $5.00
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 Chelsea Brass Ship Mantle Quartz Clock Presented by William S Cohen US $225.00
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 WATERBURY MANTLE CLOCK US $120.00
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 Working Antique Sessions Beehive Mantle Clock Electric US $34.59
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 Antique Vintage sessions nautical ships wheel electric compass mantle clock US $39.95
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 SETH THOMAS ANTIQUE LONG ALARM CLOCK US $51.00
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 Antique Seth Thomas Mantel Adamantine Dial Bezel Glass US $72.50
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 NEW REPLACEMENT PICTURE SET FOR SETH THOMAS DOUBLE DECKER US $22.00
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 Big Vintage Antique Mantle Style LARGE OLD WORLD MAP WALL CLOCK Wooden Mount New US $49.99
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 ANTIQUE MINIATURE FRENCH GRANDFATHER CLOCK SILHOUETTE US $9.99
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 ANTIQUE SETH THOMAS MANTEL CLOCK NR US $.99
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 DRAWER DISPLAY BRACKET SHELF 4 AMERICAN KITCHEN or FRENCH PORTICO PILLAR CLOCK US $51.00
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 Antique Seth Thomas Mini Mantle Clock Beautiful face design US $10.50
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 ANTIQUE SETH THOMAS WALNUT VICTORIAN MANTLE CLOCK FOR REHAB US $33.00
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 Antique Seth Thomas Mahogony Beehive Mantle Parlor Clock Works Great Very Nice US $110.00
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 Antique German Mantle Clock US $100.00
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 Late 1800`s decorative mantle clock US $200.00
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 ANTIQUE FRENCH MARBLE MANTLE CLOCK US $725.00
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 antique mantle clock US $45.00
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 Antique Vintage Seth Thomas Mantle Clock US $90.00
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 RARE Vintage Antique Victorian Clock Shelf Mantle PARTS Gold Gilt Porcelain LOOK US $5.50
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 Antique E N Welch The Daisy Model 30 Hour Time and Strike Mantle Clock 1889 US $139.99
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 Vintage NEW HAVEN shelf Mantle clock 8 day with Key parts repair restore US $19.99
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 Ships Wheels Nautical Mantle Clock 14 Marine US $29.93
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 Antique New Haven Mantle Clock W Full Pillars US $137.50
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 Antique Telecron Mantle Clock electric US $34.95
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 VERY RARE TIN BRASS ALARM MANTLE CLOCK GOOD APPEARANCE HARD TO FIND US $29.95
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 Antique Seth Thomas Tambour Mantle Clock Sentinel 3 working but needs repair US $49.95
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 Vintage GE General Electric Alarm Mantle Desk Clock Keeps Good Time US $14.99
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 ANTIQUE KEY WOUND WELBY MANTLE CLOCK MADE IN GERMANY US $49.99
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 E INGRAHAM ANTIQUE MANTLE CLOCK ALL ORIGINAL LOOKS AND RUNS GREAT 1909 US $99.75
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 SESSIONS ANTIQUE MANTLE CLOCK ORIGINAL SUPERIOR CONDITION LOOKS RUNS GREAT US $51.00
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 WATERBURY Miniature Gingerbread Kitchen Clock 1897 R A R E US $41.00
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 RUE DE LA PAIX Paris Lamp Post Mantle Clock US $199.00
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 Antique New Haven Mantle Wall clock US $169.00
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 Antique Royal Bonn La Loire Porcelain Clock US $1,200.00
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 Antique Ansonia Mantel Metal cast iron mantle shelf clock US $176.00
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 ANTIQUE CAST IRON BODY WIND UP MANTLE CLOCK US $20.00
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 GERMAN SCROLL WESTMINSTER MANTLE CLOCKVERY LARGECLEANED AND SERVICEDWORKS US $165.00
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 ANTIQUE GINGERBREAD MANTLE KITCHEN CLOCK VINTAGE WELCH SHELF CASE US $9.99
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 ANTIQUE 8 DAY ANSONIA EQUAL STRIKE SHELF MANTLE CLOCK US $69.99
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 Antique Mantle Clock US $65.00
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 ★VINTAGE TELECHRON 4505 4F05 WOOD MANTLE CLOCK ART DECO NOUVEAU WORKS★MAHOGANY★ US $29.99
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 Antique William Gilbert Mantle clock 1907 US $25.00
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 ANTIQUE JAPY FRERES CERAMIC BODY MANTLE CLOCK US $65.00
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 RARE ANTIQUE ANSONIA ROYAL BONN PORCELAIN ROSES MANTLE CLOCK LA VENDEE Ca 1904 US $499.99
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 Atmos Jaeger LeCoultre Swiss Clock US $1,100.00
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 Antique Seth Thomas Bronze Mantle Clock US $49.99
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 ANTIQUE WATERBURY CYCLONE RADIUM ALARM CLOCK WINDUP PEG LEG PARTS STEAMPUNK US $24.99
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 Antique Gilbert Beehive Mantle Clock Case US $9.99
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 Antique Seth Thomas Mantle Clock Case US $19.99
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 Antique Seth Thomas Walnut Mantle Clock US $49.99
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 Antique Shelf Mantle Clock US $120.00
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 NEW REPLACEMENT PICTURE FOR SETH THOMAS 30 HR COLUMN MODEL US $12.50
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 Rare Antique Kienzle shelf clock US $1,400.00
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 Antique Gilbert Beehive Mantle Clock US $99.99
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 Antique Gilbert Round Top Mantle Clock US $99.99
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 Vintage Mid Century 1953 Lanshire Lighted Electric Clock Brass Novelty US $39.99
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 Ansonia Don Caesar Don Juan double figural statue mantle shelf clock US $1,400.00
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 SETH THOMAS INLAID CABINET CHIME NO 61 1921 ANTIQUE WESTMINSTER CHIMES CLOCK US $310.00
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 VTG 40s 24k Gilded Lanshire Ceramic Porcelain Mantle Electric Clock Roses US $39.99
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 Antique William Gilbert Mantle Clock Circa 1925 Camel Back US $175.00
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 Stupendous antique EN Welch gingerbread kitchen Mantle Clock US $85.00
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 VTG Mid Century Eames Era 1947 MasterCrafters Estate Electric Mantle Clock US $39.99
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 SETH THOMAS PROSPECT 17 1917 ANTIQUE GOTHIC ARCH FINE INLAID CABINET CLOCK US $125.10
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 SETH THOMAS VERY RARE TAMBOUR 1904 ANTIQUE FINE TIME STRIKE CABINET CLOCK US $305.00
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 Antique Ingraham Kitchenette Mantle Clock circa 1910 US $36.00
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 Vintage Kundo Electronic KieningerObersfell Made in Western Germany No battery US $20.49
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Chinese Antiques, China Today - Ancient Elegance, Now Brutal Bully
Chinese antiques have long held fascination in the west. In fact, the oldest continually settled city in the world, Damascus, was for 7,000 years the natural western terminus of the fabled Silk Route to the Orient. Merchants from Egypt and north into modern Turkey or west into Greece would have gathered at Damascus, which had valley routes past burning deserts and high mountain passes all the way to China. In Damascus was crafted woven Damask from raw silk from faraway Cathay, or China, the only source of this mystery product none others could duplicate.
When Marco Polo took this well worn route to China in the mid 1250's, it still required a series of guides as this was, and likely still is, largely ungoverned area with various tribes in conflict with a neighbor. And to dress in rags and appear as a leper would discourage bandits, as the plague and various sicknesses were everywhere. It was to the great fortune of Marco Polo that he arrived in a time of peace.By then, the Mongul Khan had murdered and terrified his way to absolute power and his mighty court was filled with the most gifted artisans he had saved from the sword.
But during the rampages west both father and grandfather Genghis and Kublai terrified the world to the gates of Moscow and Warsaw as all quaked by the Golden Hordes from Asia. These wild Mongol warriors lived by drinking the blood of the horses as we sap a maple for its juice. When they slaughtered most of the people of a city such as Samarkand, they would mutilate but allow to live some few to go west and warn the next town they were on their way. Often, they found a deserted town, which they would burn anyway.
As the Mongols passed the Ural Mountains into Europe, the now Christian nations began to send forces to stop these barbarians with no armor, simply wearing silk clothes on ponies with swords, bows and arrows again Teutonic knights in full body armor on armored horses. Again and again it was a victory for the Mongols as it was found that they could wind an arrow back out of the silk. In contrast, the many penetrations between body armor of knight and horse soon had a knight on the ground, swinging his mighty, and heavy sword to his death.
Moscow was taken, Warsaw was next; then the sudden death of Kublai had the Golden Hordes lose interest and return east forever. At any rate, Marco Polo returned to Venice, through such terrible realities, adorned with riches from a faraway land. We, the modern next door neighbor of Marco, go stand in line with a huge buggy at a discount store loaded with Chinese modern fakes, which we do not need, can not afford, and requires another foul air CO2 coal factory to make more, which we will be back for. Are we mad?
Right now, Chinese who have only known a one party state philosophy all their lives are angry at us in the west for pretending their Tibet is really of China and is theirs. Since 1950. But since the death of Guatama Buddha in 480 B C E it has followed the ways of Buddhism, even to the point that each holy man since then was picked as the newborn child in Tibet after the Dhali Lhama dies. Does that not sound like our Three Wise Men from the East who arrived at the birth of Jesus, looked him in the eyes, and offered their gifts.
Now, we see Buddhist monks all in reeducation centers having to renounce this terrorist organization, of which the Dhali Lhama is the chief terrorist. And gentle meditators around the world feel their blood boil in anger at this totalitarian mentality that may create of their coming Olympics all the grace and goodwill of the Berlin 1936 Olympics. Farce as democracy. Except now cameras as cell phones take us inside the building reeducation centers. Germany called them concentration camps. China calls it Tibet.
When we see decent people in London and Paris protest and get beaten back, and then how the route tightens up so it jumped to Asia, where all trading partners have had a talking to, we learn on British television, from the Chinese local government man. China will punish those who cause trouble, so in Jakarta we see only local Chinese around the city stadium, police and torch bearer run around the stadium several times, and then the torch is off to careful guard in Australia, who now have China as their chief importer, coal mostly.
And now Chinese protesters are boycotting French stores. And we should too. Except not French stores. We need to teach civility to a fire breathing dragon who is getting rich because we lust after their cheap junk. Stop! Let us get ahead of their curve; while they grow on junk we buy and now boycott us for being moral world citizens, let us buy up their Mings and antiques, which are still at bargain prices while they take photos with their new cell phones. A decade from now, they will be much richer, and wonder where great grand mothers Ming vase is.
Check the net: oh, there it is, on your mantle, with the rest of the set. Meanwhile, coal brain Ned down the street is having a huge garage sale of all his fakes collection from China. But it seems everyone else kept going with their own huge buggy from those same discount stores, and garage sales everywhere have the same fakes. Not on your mantle, Mickey. You have been collecting investments in the future, and slowing down CO2 emissions that little bit. That's one fine way to cut down old dragon breath.
Buy Chinese antiques, ignore coal burning modern China, skip the Olympics. Let us see who can take whose breath away.
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