May 2022 Presidents Message,

COVID seems to be subsiding and mask guidance from the CDC have been reduced.  Masks will not be required for those of us that are fully vaccinated and boosted.  Please continue to be considerate of others and wear a mask covering your nose and mouth if you have not received all your vaccinations.  Thank you for your help in this.

I hope you all are practicing your new miner’s techniques when out at mart tables looking for great horological finds.  Thanks Mike for your talk on “Digging for Gold”.  We all learned some tips and tricks on what to look for in and out of a mart room.  You need to look at things others are not looking for.  Grow by looking for things you are not used to be looking for.  Learn by asking and reading.  The emphasis was on watches from the 1600’s until the 1950’s that most of us have never seen before. 

The educational talk for September will be by Craig White.  I will be showing the restoration of an Illuminated Alarm Clock.  I will show how the clock wakes you up with clanging on a bell and lighting an alcohol lamp.  Goal of coarse was also to not burn ones house down in the process.  As always there were some lessons to be learned to get the mechanism to work properly.

We still need volunteers for a talk and/or demonstration for 2023.  Please contact Harry Schultz or myself with ideas or suggestions.  

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available.

The November Educational talk will be by Bill Galinsky.  Bill will be demonstrating carving Cuckoo clock hands.

Chapter 47 is in charge this year of the 2022 Midwest Watch and Clock Mart in Antioch IL.  I need a few volunteers to help with checking in non-members and table holders.  Please let me know if you can help me out on Saturday October 1st.  Send me an email at cswhite5@yahoo.com or call at (414)712-0129 if you can help.

Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks,
Craig