A ‘Timely’ topic.

[bdGreen]

Here is a ‘timely’ topic considering our current state of affairs in the silver markets.
A number of decades ago when I was visiting my great uncle up in Minnesota, he showed me this clock. The original battery cage on the back had pretty much eaten itself. I went and picked up one at the local RadioShack and wired in a new battery cage and got it working again. At some point in time many years later, he decided to just hand it to me when I went up there and said here I could have it and take it home. So, I did. Ha.
It is a very novel item, and I really love having it, especially since it was gifted to me by a very special man.
Enjoy,

bdGreen

 

[CalifEd]

I was going though some old boxes my mother had and found a Kennedy 1/2 dollar and a silver dollar.
Neither was spectacular but did remind me that once upon a time, these were regular coins, used in every day activity.
Not sure what the significance my mother placed on these two, but it definitely brightened up the day.

 

[IronSkillet]

Very cool, haven’t seen it before. Great story or family history to go with it. RadioShack man I miss that store.

 

[mikerjf]

Radio Shack was a handy place, except their batteries. They used to have a “free battery card” where you could get one battery a month. Problem was, they were crappy batteries that only lasted about a month! But we did it, and it was a great place to pick up resistors, caps, and transistors for guitar projects.

(Their coil cords also would fail or get noisy after a few months.)

 

[pharman]

That's a COOL clock! What's the melt value on that?

 

[bdGreen]

$137.76.

bdGreen

 

[MelvinWalker]

$137.76.

bdGreen

 

[Dangerman]

LOL Looks like one of those flat earth maps. Pretty clock though. Kinda looks like something you would see on a nice boat or older style yacht.

 

[DWalt]

Not the exact same clock, but I have one with a battery movement that is very similar. On the dial is “Our Silver Heritage”. My father had it. I have considered selling it but its value as a memento is greater than what I would get from selling it. I imagine such items became popular around the time U. S. Silver coins ceased being minted in the late 1960s.

Some may remember that Tandy/Radio Shack was the pioneer in home computers starting in the late 1970s. My first PC was a Tandy 1000 and I learned a lot from it. No hard drive or Windows. All PCs were very crude then, but those from Tandy were much lower priced than other PCs available, and about as good as IBMs. Tandy threw in the towel on PCs in the mid-1990s as they could no longer compete in either technology or price.

 

[GypsmJim]

I started collecting coins in 1959, when Grandpa gave me a penny book for Christmas. As years went by I got nickel books, then dimes, etc.

In High School I would go to the bank with my part time job money and buy $10 worth of pennies. Look thru them, take what I needed and replace the ones I took. Next week trade the pennies for rolls of nickels, etc. etc.

One time I got a roll of silver dollars. They were all 1922s. Looked almost uncirculated. I took ONE, replaced it and traded them for pennies. The rotation started.

Boy, what can you say about hindsight.

 

[swsig]

OP, it looks like you have a lot of dime on your hands.

Sorry for that, but when it comes to making lousy puns, I give no quarter.

I'm ashamed. I'll clock out now...

 

[bdGreen]

OP, it looks like you have a lot of dime on your hands.

Sorry for that, but when it comes to making lousy puns, I give no quarter.

I'm ashamed. I'll clock out now...

Well, if you had any cents you may not have responded.

bdGreen

 

[swsig]

Well, if you had any cents you may not have responded.

bdGreen

You certainly know how to coin a phrase.

 

[bdGreen]

You certainly know how to coin a phrase.

I muddle my way through it, but I still haven't been able to cash in on it...

bdGreen

 

[old bear]

Stop it!! You guys are killing me.