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We just saw an E Howard number five banjo. Almost equally desirable and many of them
still exist; are what's called the Howard Regulator Number Seventy or Howard Seventy.
You see these often at auctions and collectors fighting over them. These were common clocks
earlier on. They were often in every tea station in Boston for example. Spread around any place
where you needed a durable high quality clock. These weren't inexpensive clocks, but as mentioned
they weren't designed for houses. They were designed for commercial or industrial settings.
This one happens to be a little rarer or a little more important, because it's the next
size up from the standard one. Howard is famous for making the same style in varying sizes.
That banjo we looked at, the number five banjo; that was the smallest. The made them all the
way up to number one, which was much bigger and used in places where you needed to be
able to see the clock from farther away. Normally the Howard Seventy was a twelve inch dial.
This is a fourteen inch dial. Which could almost double the value of this, because much
rarer, harder to find. We have the typical black, gold and red glasses too. This color
that's sort of a brick red is famous when these glasses get broken people go to great
lengths to try to recreate the color. We also see, as well, that in this case we have the
existing patterning still on the pendulum bob. This is a pattern that is done into the
lacquer or very faintly into the metal so it's not often that you find that pattern
remaining on the pendulum bob, because it can get wiped off very easily. So, if you
have a larger Howard Seventy, you have a pendulum bob that retains its patterning, if you have
an original weight inside where actually the number seventy is cast into the weight you
have a great collectible item. We'll talk more about what Howard made, but now you've
seen probably the most popular and collectible models the number seventy and the number five
banjo we saw previously.