[Leica] Unusual clock

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

I am surprised that it is not hidden in a cupboard! ;-) Too sensitive 
for some.

The Chinese just shouted the same thing!

Peter

On 06/04/2025 01:17, Douglas Barry wrote:
> This clock is in the Kildare Street Club in Dublin where I was at the 
> AGM dinner of my wine society last month. Enjoyable, as it included a 
> flight of three '05 Pomerols and an exquisite '09 d'Yquem.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/NS+Clock+KSC.jpg.html
> 
> The background to the peculiar clock is the club was used heavily by the 
> old ascendancy who were mainly protestant Unionists, and all were men. 
> The clock, probably made in France, commemorates the 200th anniversary 
> of King William III's victory in the Battle of the Boyne of 1690, and 
> only has the number 12 marked on it. It does have the motto of the 
> Unionists on its face however. So look at the larger size. Over here, 
> we're tempted to shout the slogan across the pond to the Tariffman.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildare_Street_Club
> 
> Jayanand, you may be interested in the fact that Lord Hugh Gough of the 
> Madras Army and Anglo-Sikh War fame was a member of the Club. It was 
> through his efforts in the war that Jammu and Kashmir came under British 
> rule and then, after the 1947 Partition, became mostly part of India. A 
> controversial figure in both India and China, Gough's Wikipedia page has 
> an interesting 1850 daguerreotype. Over here, there was a very good 
> equestrian statue by John Henry Foley of Gough on a plinth in the 
> Phoenix Park in the middle of Dublin. It survived until the mid 1950s, 
> but looking at a statue of a Field Marshal of the old occupying army was 
> too much for Irish people of a certain sensibility and it was blown up 
> in 1957. Repaired, it is now in the garden of an English estate.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
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Dr. Peter Dzwig