Sidewalk Finds: Seth Thomas Clock and Millet Print

Saturday was a big cleaning up day. I came across the circa ’60s Seth Thomas Mantel Clock that I found on the sidewalk a couple of summers ago. We don’t have a mantel (or even a suitable bookshelf) so I still don’t know what to do with it. It’s not a particularly distinctive design but it is distinguished looking and that’s why I’ve hung on to it.

The clock also reminded me that I found an old print last Tuesday. I thinks it’s from the late 1910s to 1920s and it’s an etching based on a drawing by Jean Françcois Millet called Shepherdess Knitting (pictured below).

And then I realized how many of my possessions were salvaged from the sidewalk. It made me wonder why I don’t have more money on account of how I’ve not had to pay for half of my possessions.