Vintage Pigeon Clock

just seen this for sale local to me, an old toulet £5........i see some people collect them , been a long time since i used one of these, then i progressed to an stb quartz

Marvellous craftsmanship when you think about it, right down to the wooden carrying box and all the corner joints. I imagine all hand made, big difference with today's systems.

yes colin , mass produced nowadays ......all the joints probably done by hand on these toulets , i remember the first clock i ever had when i started in the early 80`s, a 10bird toulet bought off a club member for around 30 quid i think.......only used it a few times and it wasnt much good, hence the new stb quartz investment .

Brings back memories.

Never used one myself but set  hundreds.

Still have  one in good condition, will look number up when I think where it is.

Story how I came by it.

Fancier  whose photo appears at times in the BHW approached me to see if he could purchase
a loft  that was on an allotment I got to grow veg.

So as it was no good to me my loft being in the garden I said he could have it for  next to 
nothing.

He took the loft and a knock on the door saw him stood there with the clock in his hand and 
half the agreed price, pushed both into my hands and said, " Thats it".

Every time I see him I think That's Him.

Regards.

Buy it ...my first clock was a toulet

Mine was also an old toulet. Cost £30. My father's was a Sky Master. Cost £1:5p. Dad bought it on tick from Littlewoods catalodge, at an extra shilling. 21 shillings.