[Leica] Unusual clock

[Nathan Wajsman]

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Nathan

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> On 6 Apr 2025, at 02:17, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> 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.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/NS+Clock+KSC.jpg.html
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> 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.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildare_Street_Club
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> 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.
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> Douglas
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