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Title: Question on old clocks
Post by: DizE on September 19, 2010, 06:41:09 pm

I was told some old clocks have gold in them.
Is this true? and if so where would the gold be?

Title: Re: Question on old clocks
Post by: hosman321 on September 19, 2010, 11:17:02 pm

I've never heard of any clocks having gold on the insides but there are gold gilt clocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormolu

Title: Re: Question on old clocks
Post by: cogar on September 20, 2010, 04:37:50 am

I'm pretty sure that someone at sometime or another has hidden some gold or gold coins inside of a clock for safe keeping. A neat place to hide gold in a clock would be to make the pendulum weights out of it.

Some watches, especially pocket watches, have gold in them. Their cases and/or chains are made of gold.

And it’s a pretty good bet that in the past 400 years there have been a few clocks with solid gold cases that were made for say a Russian Czar, a member of the Rothschild family, a Maharajas of India, etc.

Geeezee, even now days one reads about someone that has "solid gold bathroom fixtures".

Title: Re: Question on old clocks
Post by: DizE on September 20, 2010, 09:21:29 am

Sweet, Thanks for the info.

If I get lucky Ill be sure to let you guys know lol.

Title: Re: Question on old clocks
Post by: KC on September 20, 2010, 06:02:13 pm

Also, if there is any "metal" ornamentation on a clock....it can be gold painted over!  (That has been known to happen!)

Have heard to the weights on a grandfather clock having them!  Have also heard of a false bottom in a clock to contain $$$!