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BIDDING CLOSED – Auction Item: Working Vintage Mantel Clock with Key

Starting bid $50.

Updated Friday, October 10th – Bidding is now closed on this item. Winner will be notified by email. (If you believe you’ve won but haven’t received an email by tomorrow morning, please check your spam folder.) Item will be available for pickup at Churches Thrift Shop on Saturday and Tuesday. Thank you!

5 thoughts on “BIDDING CLOSED – Auction Item: Working Vintage Mantel Clock with Key”

  1. I really appreciated your thorough explanation regarding vintage VS antique.
    Thanks very much. Church’s staff are always so helpful.

    Grant

  2. Grant, an antique is usually over 100 years old and valued for its age and rarity. Vintage means it’s from a previous era but not necessarily quite that old; think stylishly old, not ancient.

    Also, from the Merriam Webster dictionary, the two definitions of vintage that apply here:
    vintage
    adjective
    – of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality : classic
    – dating from the past : old

    As you know, the items in our auction have been donated, so we don’t usually know their history. We don’t want to claim that something is antique if we’re not certain. However, we can tell when something is an older item of quality.

    In the case of this clock, we do not see a year on the clock, but from all the hardware, we are guessing that it is early 1900s.

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