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I've shown you many books as we've gone through this discussion of clock collecting, but there
are many more. I have a large bookshelf full of books, and that's one nice thing, as I
mentioned, about clock collecting, as it, there's a lot of written material about these
book, about these clocks, and books by all kinds of experts. This is a real classic now,
it's Chris Bayley's book. He's the curator of the clock museum down in Bristol, Connecticut.
If you want a great overview of American clock making, it's a great one to, it's a great
one to own and look through. Chris Bayley still works as the curator there. He's available
for, for consultations on clocks. I see him regularly, a great guy, great expert. Speaks
regularly too, it's one of our collector meetings. I've been telling you a lot trend to lee boo,
trend to lease books, these catalog reproductions. Accompanying each of these is a price guide
as well, which gives you an idea of the relative values of some of these books. Then, there
are very specialized books on all aspects of the collecting. Just by collectors, researchers
over the years. One particularly important one is a book by Charlie Parsons about New
Hampshire clock collecting. He was a, a major collector, major expert on those kinds of
clocks some decades ago. His book is long out of print, but if you can get one, you
should. We haven't, and probably won't get to talking about New Hampshire clocks in this
series, but they're an important part of collecting as well. Early on, there were many New Hampshire
clock makers that made long case clocks, some banjo clocks, New Hampshire mirror clocks
are another style. So, if you want to know more about those, if you're interested in
collecting New Hampshire clocks, certainly Charlie Parsons's book would be an important
book for you to own, as well as as many others as you can afford, because there's nothing
more satisfying than, when you've just got a new clock, or you're looking at one you
may want to buy, if you can walk over to your bookshelf, pull a book out and see that clock,
and see information about it, you're going to become a much better collector.