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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 603851, member: 25"]Remove the pendulum, to avoid damage to the suspension (probably easiest to take the bell off first) then turn it upside down and use something steel and sharp to scratch under a foot. (well out of sight) and if the scratch shows silvery colour it is spelter, a golden colour is bronze. Bronze examples are worth at least twice the price of spelter examples.</p><p>The feet may be worn enough already to show a grey colour of spelter.</p><p>Clocks are a buyer's market at the moment, so haggle hard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 603851, member: 25"]Remove the pendulum, to avoid damage to the suspension (probably easiest to take the bell off first) then turn it upside down and use something steel and sharp to scratch under a foot. (well out of sight) and if the scratch shows silvery colour it is spelter, a golden colour is bronze. Bronze examples are worth at least twice the price of spelter examples. The feet may be worn enough already to show a grey colour of spelter. Clocks are a buyer's market at the moment, so haggle hard.[/QUOTE]
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