[Leica] Unusual clock

[Douglas Barry]

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